"Cantab" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... illuminated his betrothed's funeral shone upon his, and they repose beside each other in the picturesque burial-ground of Nuneville, not quite forgotten or unlamented by its inhabitants.—Abridged from a collection of interesting Tales and Sketches, entitled "A Cantab's Leisure." ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 13, No. 362, Saturday, March 21, 1829 • Various
... himself, his wife and children into poverty? The dilemma interested Butler deeply: he might so easily have found himself in it if he had not begun to doubt the efficacy of infant baptism when he did. Fifteen letters followed, signed "Cantab," "Oxoniensis," and so forth, some recommending one course, some another. One, signed "X.Y.Z.," included "The Righteous Man" which will be found in the last group of this volume, headed "Poems." From the following letter signed "Ethics" Butler afterwards took two passages (which I have enclosed, ...
— The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Samuel Butler
... him be absent; leave of absence from commons, given to a student in the English universities.—Gradus ad Cantab. ...
— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall |
