 | Philip Slaughter - 1883 - 146 lapas
...contain My books, the best company is to me; A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers: And sometimes, for variety,...counsels, Calling their victories, if unjustly got, To a strict account, and, in my fancy. Deface their ill-placed statues." One might, with little imagination,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 lapas
...contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes, for variety,...With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels. 448 Beaumont & Fletcher: The Elder Brother. Acti. Sc. 2. O books, ye monuments of mind, concrete wisdom... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1884 - 526 lapas
...Contain my books, the best companions, is , To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers. And sometimes for variety,...Unto a strict account : and in my fancy, Deface their ill-planed statues. Can I then Part with such constant pleasures, to embrace Uncertain vanities ? No... | |
 | Medical Association of Georgia - 1884 - 508 lapas
...Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes for variety,...Unto a strict account ; and in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues. Can I then Part with such constant pleasures, to embrace Uncertain vanities ? No,... | |
 | 1884 - 396 lapas
...Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes for variety...emperors, and weigh their counsels ; Calling their victones, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account ; and in my fancy Deface their ill-placed statues.... | |
 | Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - 1888 - 572 lapas
...contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court , where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes for variety...Unto a strict account, and in my fancy Deface their ill-placed statues. — Beaumont and Fletcher. LIBRARY NOTES. AT a recent meeting of the Town Council... | |
 | 1889 - 934 lapas
...books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages anil philosophers; And sometimes, for variety, I confer...Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues. i. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. Tlie Elder Brother. Act I. Sc. 2. A library is but the... | |
 | 1891 - 556 lapas
...Contain my books, the best companions, le To mo a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes for variety,...account ; and in my fancy, Deface their ill-plac'd statutes. Fletcher. APPRECIATION OP. That book in many's eyes doth share the glory, That in gold clasps,... | |
 | James Louis O'Neil - 1893 - 154 lapas
...contain my books, The best companions, is to me, A glorious court where hourly I converse with the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes, for variety...with kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels." While noting the eagerness of people for a glance at a poet, a question to a man of science, a word... | |
 | John Lubbock - 1894 - 356 lapas
...Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes for variety...counsels ; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Into a strict account ; and in my fancy Deface their ill-placed statues. Can I then Part with such... | |
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