 I no sooner (saith he) come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is Idleness, the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many...  The Director: A Weekly Literary Journal: Containing I. Essays, on Subjects ... - Page 347edited by - 1807Full view - About this book
 | G. A. E. Bogeng - Book collecting - 1922 - 560 pages
...Melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seath with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that I pity...great ones, and rich men that know not this happiness. I am not ignorant in the meantime [notwithstanding this which I have said] how barbaroushy and basely,... | |
 | Francis Kingsley Ball - English language - 1923 - 488 pages
...preceding page would appear as follows : I no sooner come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices,...ones, and rich men, that know not this happiness. — - HEINSIUS, keeper of the library at Leiden. (From Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy.) CHAPTER X LETTER... | |
 | American essays - 1888 - 974 pages
...vices, whose nurse is idleness, their mother Ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the very Inp of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take...ones, and rich men that know not this happiness.' " And take as a background to this delightful picture the dreadful glimpse which this brief passage... | |
 | American essays - 1883 - 998 pages
...vices, whose nurse is idleness, their mother Ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the very Inp of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take...ones, and rich men that know not this happiness.' " And take as a background to this delightful picture the dreadful glimpse which this brief passage... | |
 | American literature - 1907 - 392 pages
...Avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is Idleness, the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy her selfe ; and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine...great ones and rich men, that know not this happiness. HEINSIUS (1580-1655). PS. Slinlwd UnivwWy 3 tlOS DD7 MbS DIM 190 7-0 £ Stanford University Libraries... | |
 | Holbrook Jackson - Antiques & Collectibles - 2001 - 676 pages
...and all such vices, whose nurse is idleness, the mother of ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and il the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls,...great ones, and rich men that know not this happiness. 11 So do great readers rise to great heights: pitying rich and powerful men, seeing 1 Private Papers... | |
 | Holbrook Jackson - Antiques & Collectibles - 2001 - 676 pages
...eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat, with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that 1 pity all our great ones, and rich men that know not this happiness.™ So do great readers rise to great heights: pitying rich and powerful men, seeing 1 Private Papers of... | |
 | Edward Thomas - History - 2005 - 302 pages
...avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is idleness, the mother of ignorance, and Melancholy herself; in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine...ones, and rich men that know not this happiness." The Anatomy of Melancholy But by the sacred genius of this place, By every Muse, by each domestic grace,... | |
 | Fitz Hugh Ludlow - Hashish - 2006 - 358 pages
...NOTES 307 choly: '"I no sooner' (saith [Heinsius]) 'come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices,...ones, and rich men that know not this happiness.'" The Latin phrase that Ludlow gives for sitting in the "lap of eternity" is different from that found in... | |
 | American essays - 1883 - 894 pages
...Ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the very Inp of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I toke my seat, with so lofty a spirit and sweet content,...ones, and rich men that know not this happiness.' " And take as a background to this delightful picture the dreadful glimpse which this brief passage... | |
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