 It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books in order to love them much. The scholar, in Chaucer, who would rather have " At his beddes head A twenty bokes, clothed in black and red, Of Aristotle and his philosophy, Than robes rich,...  No Hero: An Autobiography : [a Novel] - Sida 329efter Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1863 - 355 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 sidor
...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 sidor
...books, in order to love them much. The scholar in Chaucer who would rather have .. : • At his beddes head A twenty bokes, clothed in 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 376 sidor
...many books, in order to love them much. The scholar, in Chaucer, who would rather have At his beddes head A twenty bokes, clothed in black and red, Of Aristotle and his philosophy, Than robfcs rich, or fiddle, or psaltrie, — doubtless beat all our modern collectors in his passion... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 286 sidor
...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... | |
 | 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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 542 sidor
...many books, in order to love them much. The scholar, in Chaucer, who would rather have At his beddes head A twenty bokes, clothed in black and red, Of Aristotle and his philosophy, Than robes rich, or fiddle, or psaltrie.— doubtless beat all our modern collectors in his passion... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 sidor
...many books, in order to love them much. The scholar, in Chaucer, who would rather have At his beddes head A twenty bokes, clothed in black and red, Of Aristotle and his philosophy, Than robes rich, or fiddle, or psaltrie. — doubtless beat all our modern collectors in his passion... | |
 | 1861 - 1050 sidor
...Moreover, she reads her books, and, like the scholar in Chaucer, would rather have "Atherbeddeshead A twenty bokes, clothed in black and red, Of Aristotle and his philosophy, Than robes rich, or fiddle, or psaltrie." I found her not long ago deep in a volume of "Mr. Welsted's... | |
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