 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,...  Underbrush - Seite 28von James Thomas Fields - 1877 - 303 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 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
...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 roMs rich) or fiddle, or psaltery,— doubtless beat all our modern collectors in his real passion... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 376 Seiten
...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 robfcs rich, or fiddle, or psaltrie, — doubtless beat all our modern collectors in his passion for... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1835 - 372 Seiten
...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,...philosophy, Than robes rich, or fiddle, or psaltrie,— doubtless beat all our modern collectors in his passion for reading ; but books must at least exist,... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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