 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 Seiten
...yet no benefice, Ne was nought worldly to have an office. For him was lever4 han at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black and red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophic, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1823 - 424 Seiten
...opinion, that I do not care to be any where without having a book or books at hand, and like Dr. Arkborne in the novel of Camilla, stuff the coach or post-chaise...black and red,' Of Aristotle and his philosophy Than roMs rich) or fiddle, or psaltery,— doubtless beat all our modern collectors in his real passion... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 286 Seiten
...study. Like the scholar described by old Chaucer, he was accustomed to keep continually At his bed's head, A twenty bokes, clothed in black and red, Of Aristotle and his philosophie. He was, as his poetry attests, an elegant scholar and a profound metaphysician. We have... | |
 | Charles Henry Timperley - 1839 - 1266 Seiten
...language. THE SCHOLAR. Him was lever* have at his hecl'8 heail, Twenty bookes, clothed In black or red. Of Aristotle and his philosophy , Than robes rich, or fiddle, or psaltry . But all be that he was a philosopher, Yet hadde he but little gold in coffer, Bat all that... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1843 - 714 Seiten
...them in any purity of text. When we read of Chaucer's clerk that ' him was lever ban at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black and red, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie,' we must remember that they were but translations... | |
 | William James Linton - 1844 - 340 Seiten
...and table, and an uncurtained pallet. The only things at all remarkable were (as Chaucer sings), " At his beddes head A twenty bokes, clothed in black and red, Of Aristotle and his philosophy, More prized than robes rich, or fiddle or saultry." On this low bed he laid his burden, and sitting... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 Seiten
...yet no benefice, Ne was nought worldly to have an office. For him was lever 3 han at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black and red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde... | |
 | 1849 - 608 Seiten
...Oxenford," when he says, that " him wasliever ban at his bed's head A twenty bookes cloth'd in black or red, Of Aristotle and his philosophy, Than robes rich, or fiddle, or psaltry." But there is no reason to think that in this department Chaucer ever assumed a higher position... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 544 Seiten
...books at hand, and like Dr. Orkborne, in the novel of Camilla, stuff the coach or post-chaise ,vi-h them whenever I travel. As books, however, become...for reading; but books must at least exist, and have acquired an emi nence, befove their lovers can make themselves known. There must be a possession, also,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 Seiten
...travel. As books, however, become an^ cient, the love of them becomes more unequivocal and con. spicuous. The ancients had little of what we call learning....reading ; but books must at least exist, and have acquired an eminence, befove their lovers can make themselves known. There must be a possession, also,... | |
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The ancients had little of what we call learning. They made it. They were also no very eminent buyers of books — they made books for posterity. It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much. The scholar,... 
