| 1804 - 496 páginas
...sentence or the stroke of death, he composed in the tower of Pavia the Consolation ofPhilosof.fni ; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarisim of the times and the situation of the author. The celestial guide whom he had so long invoked... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1823 - 580 páginas
...rendered in prose.10 5 See his Div. Naturae, p. 32. 34. 113. and 174. Gibbon calls the book of Boetius " a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato, or Tully." Hist. Decl. vol.iv. p. 38. « Ethel. Hist. p. 847. * Malm. p. 45. and 248. 8 Henry de Silgrave; MSS.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 páginas
...of death, he InTdea'th, composed in the tower of Pavia the Consolation o/" A .0.524. Philosophy; & golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...condescended to illumine his dungeon, to revive his courage, and to pour into his wounds her salutary balm. She taught him to compare his long prosperity... | |
| 1826 - 590 páginas
...extraordinary excellence and elegance; itwasthe great classic «f the middle ages, and has been justly styled " a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...of the times, and the situation of the author." The patriot and scholar laments in prose and verse alternately his imprisonment and misfortunes, when suddenly... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1836 - 626 páginas
...11 , the preface 5 See his Div. Natura, p. 32. 34. 113. and 174. Gibbon calls the book of Boetius " a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully." Hist. Decl. vol. iv. p. 38. 6 Ethel. Hist. p. 847. 7 Malm. p. 45. and 248. s Henry de Silgrave; MSS.... | |
| David Nutt - 1837 - 774 páginas
...637*— • Idem liber, ex Nova llecensione et cum Prolegomenis Thomœ Obbarii, 8vo. 2s. Jente, 1843 " A golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...incomparable merit, from the barbarism of the times and situation of the author. The sage who could artfully combine in the same work (each moment expecting... | |
| Martin Ruter - 1845 - 458 páginas
...oppressed with fetters, expected each moment the sentence or the stroke of death, he composed, in the tower of Pavia, the Consolation of Philosophy ; a...celestial guide whom he had so long invoked at Rome and at Athens now condescended to illumine his dungeon, to revive his courage, and to pour into his wounds... | |
| 1898 - 664 páginas
...fetters, expected each moment the sentence of the stroke of death, he composed in the tower of Pa via the 'Consolation of Philosophy'; a golden volume,...barbarism of the times and the situation of the author." — Gibbon's ' Decline and Fall,' chap, xxxix. Is not RR somewhat inconsistent in denouncing what he... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1852 - 530 páginas
...has thus composed s See his I.)iv. Natura, p. 32. 34. 113. and 1 74. Gibbon calls the book of Boetlus "a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato, or Tully." Hist. Decl. vol. Iv. p. 38. • Ethel. Hist. p. 847. ' Malms, p. 45 and 248. • Henry de Silgrave... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 440 páginas
...fetters, expected each moment the sentence or the stroke of death, he composed in the tower HI« i of Pavia the Consolation of Philosophy ; a golden...condescended to illumine his dungeon, to revive his courage, and to pour into his wounds her salutary balm. She taught him to compare his long prosperity... | |
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