 Philosophy ; 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 London Magazine - 第 11 頁1826完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1879 - 742 頁
...Boethius, already mentioned. In describing it Gibbon says that it is " a golden volume not unworthy the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the ti»es and situation of the author. The celestial guide [Philosophy] whom he had so long invoked at... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1885 - 826 頁
...Hebrew (by Ben Banshet). Gibbon admires it all the more for its ignoring Christianity, and calls it "a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...of the times and the situation of the author. The celestial guide whom he had so long invoked at Rome and Athens, now condescended to illumine his dungeon,... | |
 | John Dryden, Oliver Goldsmith - 1882 - 314 頁
...Pavia, he employed his leisure with composing a work which he entitled 'The Consolation of Philosophy,' "a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully. The writings of the philosopher were translated by the most glorious of tho Kuglieh kings." (Alfred.)... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 486 頁
...sentence or the stroke of death, he composed in the tower of Pavia the Consolation of Philosophy ; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...of the times and the situation of the author. The celestial guide whom he had so long invoked at Rome and Athens now condescended to illumine his dungeon,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1886 - 574 頁
...sentence or the stroke of death, he composed in the tower of Pavia the Consolation of Philosophy . a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...of the times and the situation of the author. The celestial guide whom he had so long invoked at Rome and Athens now condescended to illumine his dungeon,... | |
 | Boethius - 1886 - 430 頁
...death, ho composed iu the tower of Pavia the XX APPENDIX TO INTRODUCTION. Consolation of Philosophy ; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...of the times and the situation of the author. The celestial guide, whom ho had so long invoked at Rome and Athens, now condescended to illumine his dungeon,... | |
 | Chaucer Society, London - 1886 - 420 頁
...stroke of death, he composed in the tower of Pavia the Consolation of Philosophy ; a golden volume riot unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which...of the times and the situation of the author. The celestial guide, whom he had so long invoked at Rome and Athens, now condescended to illumine his dungeon,... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1888 - 610 頁
...sentence or the stroke of death, he composed, in the tower of Pavia, the ' Consolation of Philosophy ; ' a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...barbarism of the times and the situation of the author." This great work was translated, before Chaucer, by King Alfred ; and, after Chaucer, at least eight... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1894 - 602 頁
...sentence or the stroke of death, he composed in the tower of Pavia the " Consolation of Philosophy " ; a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims 1 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chap, xxxix. See the whole chapter. incomparable merit from... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1894 - 600 頁
...sentence or the stroke of death, he composed in the tower of Pavia the " Consolation of Philosophy " ; a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims 1 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chap, zxxix. See the whole chapter. incomparable merit from... | |
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