 | George Gregory - 1790 - 456 sider
...the author. The celeftial guide whom he had fo long invoked at Rome and at Athens, now condefcended to illumine his dungeon, to revive his courage, and to pour into his wounds her falutary balm. She taught him to compare his long profperity and his recent diftrefs, and to conceive... | |
 | George Gregory - 1795 - 582 sider
...celeftial guide whom he had fo long invoked at Rome and at Athens, now condefcended to illu-. mine his dungeon, to revive his courage, and to pour into his wounds her falutary balm. She taught him to compare his long profperity and his recent diftrefs, and to conceive... | |
 | 1826 - 590 sider
...been justly styled " 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 patriot and scholar laments in prose and verse alternately his imprisonment and misfortunes, when suddenly... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Hogg - 1827 - 368 sider
...been justly styled " 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 patriot and scholar laments in prose and verse alternately his imprisonment and misfortunes; when suddenly... | |
 | Martin Ruter - 1845 - 458 sider
...Consolation of Philosophy ; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit, from the barbarism of the times,...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 sider
...'Consolation of 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." — Gibbon's ' Decline and Fall,' chap, xxxix. Is not RR somewhat inconsistent in denouncing what he... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 472 sider
...Consolation of Philosophy ; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tullv, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times...compare his long prosperity and his recent distress, 2/O and to conceive new hopes from the inconstancy of fortune. Reason had informed him of the precarious... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 458 sider
...Consolation of Philosophy; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times...balm. She taught him to compare his long prosperity ^nd his recent distress , and to conceive new hopes from the inconstancy of fortune. Reason had informed... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 780 sider
...leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times ami the situation of the author. The celestial guide whom...prosperity and his recent distress, and to conceive newhopes from the inconstancy of fortune. Reason had informed him of the precarious condition of her... | |
 | Boethius, Richard Morris - 1868 - 250 sider
...Consolation of Philosophy ; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times...situation of the author. The celestial guide, whom ho had so long invoked at Rome and Athens, now condescended to illumine his dungeon, to revive his... | |
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Athens now 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 and his recent distress, and to conceive new hopes from the inconstancy of fortune. 
