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| | Corregio's Magdalen.

| | Corregio's Magdalen.

Corregio's Magdalen.

Corregio's Magdalen.

For sixty years or more all went well, but in 1459 the Bishop of Winchester bought the patronage of the place from the Duke of Norfolk, and won leave from the Pope and the Bishop of Chichester to suppress it and appropriate it to his new College of St Mary Magdalen in Oxford.

For thirteen years the Priory was unoccupied, and then in 1493 the Fellows of Magdalen allowed the Carmelite Friars of Shoreham to use the place, their own house in Shoreham having been engulfed by the sea.

And what remains of the College of St Elizabeth, and, but for a Norman doorway, now in Catholic hands, of the Hospital of St Mary Magdalen?

Until the eighteenth century something remained of Hyde Abbey, much of the Hospital of St Mary Magdalen; the city walls were then practically perfect, having all their five gates, north, south, east and west, and King's gate; now of all these only the Westgate of the thirteenth century remains to us with the King's gate over which is the little church of St Swithin.

But show (no hurry) this unique recantation to Mr. Rogers: 't is like a dirty pocket-handerchief mucked with tears of some indigent Magdalen.

[Footnote 390: These houses, with the coast on which they stood, have long sunk into the sea, and we are only now, thanks to the perseverance of Mr. R.T. Günther of Magdalen College, realising their position and former magnificence.

For there is a gallery of great women, great with and without sin, where thou must sit, between Sappho and Cleopatra, the Magdalen thy neighbor,nor yet removed wholly out of sight the Mother of the Great Forgiveness of God.

One of his most amusing letters was to a little girl called Magdalen, to whom he had given a copy of his "Hunting of the Snark": Christ Church, December 15, 1875.

My dear Magdalen,I want to explain to you why I did not call yesterday.

and myself said, "It was very jolly there; there was a child called Magdalen," and me said, "I used to like her a little; not much, you knowonly a little."

One of the Fellows of Magdalen College at that time was a Mr. Saul, a friend of my father's and of Mr. Dodgson, and a great lover of musichis rooms were full of musical instruments of every sort.

Joyner was an Oxford man, a fellow of Magdalen College.

Through his Roman tragedy there runs a pensive vein of sadness, as though the poet were thinking less of his Aurelia and his Valentius than of the lost common-room and the arcades of Magdalen to be no more revisited.

The chosen people, the garden, the betrayal, the crucifixion, and the beautiful story, not of Mary, but of Magdalen.

KING-HALL, MAGDALEN.

SEE MAXWELL, MAGDALEN PERCIVAL KING-HALL.

I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College, and they proved the fourteen months the most idle and profitless of my whole life.

His novel, Memoirs of a Magdalen (1767), was translated into French.

Who would compare the pathos of the Laocoon to that of Canova's Magdalen?

Let me add, to remove misconception, that I visited Paris because my tutor, the Reverend George Fellowes, one of the Fellows of Magdalen College expelled by the late King, and now Rector of Portchester, had been asked to provide for Miss Woodford's return to her home, and he is here to testify that I never had any concern with politics.