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Title: Reminiscences of Oxford
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Tuckwell, William, 1829-1919
Subjects: University of Oxford
Publisher: London (etc.) New York : Cassell and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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^ obtained the Headship oftheir Colleges, both wrote in Essays and Re-views. Behind these accidents are life eqiiij)-nient, experiences, characters, temperaments,standing in phenomenal contrast. Pattisons
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MARK PATTISON. From a Portrait in the possession of Miss St:rke. PATTISON, THOMSON, GOULBURN, SEWELL. 217 mind was the more compreliensive, instructed,idealistic, its evolution as intermittent and self-torturing as Jowetts was continuous andtranquil. Pattisons Kfe, in its abrupt pre-cipitations and untoward straits, resembled themountain brook of Wordsworths solitary;Jowetts floated even, strong, and full, fromthe winning of the Balliol scholarship by thelittle white-haired lad with shrill voice andcherub face, until the Sunday afternoon atHeadley Park, when the old man, shrill, white-haired, and cherubic still, bade farewell to theCollege, turned his face to the wall, and died.To a College whose tutors were inefficientand its scholars healthy animals Pattisoncarried at eighteen years old a mass of un-digested reading, an intelligence half awakened,a morbid self-consciousness, a total T^ant of thepropriety and tact which a public school instils,but in which home training usually fai

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