...Consolation of Philosophy ; a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the...courage, and to pour into his wounds her salutary balm. Suspense, the worst of evils, was at length determined by the ministers of death, who executed, and...

...justly describes it as " a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author." The high reputation it had in medieval times is attested by the numerous translations, commentaries and...

...justly describes it as " a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author." The high reputation it had in medieval times is attested by the numerous translations, commentaries and...

...justly describes it as " a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author." The high reputation it had in medieval times is attested by the numerous translations, commentaries and...

...Gibbon calls the Consolation ' a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author.' 4 One thousand years later Sir Thomas More, similarly placed in the Tower of London, turned for comfort...

...in a book which Gibbon calls "a golden volume, not unworthy the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author." Here the eager and plastic mind of Dante found the great world problems — the Ultimate Good, the...

...verdict of Gibbon, it is a ' golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times, and the situation of the author.' It was the closing work of Roman literature, composed in the gloomy tower of Pavia, where the last...

...scholat, but the author of "a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author," who wrote it while, "oppressed with fetters, [he] expected each moment the sentence or the stroke of...

...Consolation of Philosophy; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the...dungeon, to revive his courage, and to pour into his wound her salutary balm. She taught him to compare his long prosperity and his recent distress, and...

...described by Gibbon as ' a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author'. This is the book to which Dante turned when death robbed him of Beatrice, and there are many lines...