 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 794 pages
...• and his philofophie Then robes riche, or fidel or fautrie : But all be that he wai a philofophre Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, But all that he might of his frendes heotc On bokes and on lerning he it fpente, And befily pan for the foulcs praie Of hem that yave him... | |
 | Henry John Todd - Narrative poetry, English - 1810 - 470 pages
...yet no benefice, Ne was nought worldly to have an office. For him was lever han at his beddes hed 293 A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle,...philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, 300 But all th t he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on lerning he it sperite, And besily gan... | |
 | Henry John Todd - Narrative poetry, English - 1810 - 468 pages
...was nought worldly to have an office. For him was lever han at his beddes hed. 295 A twenty bokves, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie,...philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, 300 But all th..t he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on lerning he it spente, And besily gan... | |
 | Henry John Todd - Narrative poetry, English - 1810 - 466 pages
...han at his beddes hed 295 A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophic, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be...philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, 300 But all th.-.t he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on lernirtg he ft spente, And besily... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...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...gold in cofre, But all that he might of his frendes hente5, On bokes and on lerning he it spente, And besily gan for the soules praie Of hem, that yave... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 468 pages
...twenty bokes, elothed in blaek or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riehe, or Iidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in eofre, But all that he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on lerning he it spente, And besily... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 432 pages
...beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black and red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robfis riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet haddd he but litel gold in cofre, But all that he might of his frendds hente 5, On bokes and on leraing... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 546 pages
...rich, or fidel, or sautrie — Sautrie is psaltry, a kind of harp or dulcimer to sing psalms to : — But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in coi're — " Yet" is a pleasant assumption ; as if anything else was expected of philosophy ! or perhaps... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...beddes hed, Twenty bokes, elothed in blaek or red, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riehe ; UaU X eofre ; But all that he might of his (rendes hente. On bokes and on leming he it spente ; And besily... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...yet no benefice, Ne was nought worldly to have an office. For him was lever (#) han at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle,...philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, (a) Farm. (6) What he obtained. But all that he might of his frendes hente, (a) On bokes and on Icrning... | |
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