 | John Clark Ridpath - 1897 - 430 σελίδες
...that sublime treatise, the Consolation of Philosophy — a work which the calm Gibbon declares to be "a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times, and the situation of the author." In it Boethius traverses the whole circuit of those themes in which the... | |
 | Albert Walkley - 1897 - 180 σελίδες
...Consolations of Philosophy." The thought is that happiness is found in God alone. Gibbon calls it " a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully " (Cicero). Now these translations were not mere literal renderings. Alfred says he translated sometimes... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - 1898 - 720 σελίδες
...Rome, while, at the same time, it shows the influence of Christian ideals. «It is,» says Gibbon, «a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully.» I, oí us. The, and Other Le ц-ciiils of Japan, by Edward Greey, 1883. This book is filled in part... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1899 - 558 σελίδες
...the most famous of his writings was his book on the Consolation of Philosophy. Gibbon describes it as a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but claiming incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the circumstances of the author. Its... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1900 - 408 σελίδες
...the strange plays called Moralities were to enjoy a lasting popularity '";* and Gibbon called it " a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author." Some idea of this fame of a work which is now seldom spoken of may be... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1900 - 602 σελίδες
...sentence or the stroke of death, he composed in the tower of Pavia the " Consolation of Philosophy " ; a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims viii incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author. The celestial... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 576 σελίδες
...or the stroke of death, he composed in the tower of ?«'Sh. AD Pavia the Consolation of Philosophy; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author. The celestial guide, whom he had so long invoked at Rome and Athens, now... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 736 σελίδες
...sentence or the stroke of death, he composed in the tower of Pavia the Consolation of Philosophy ; a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author. The celestial guide, whom he had so long invoked at Rome and Athens, now... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - 1910 - 1056 σελίδες
...famous of the works of Boetius is his book De Consolations Philosophiae. Gibbon justly describes it as " a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author." The high reputation it had in medieval times is attested by the numerous... | |
 | 1910 - 1052 σελίδες
...famous of the works of Boctius is his book DC Consolation* Philosophise, Gibbon justly describes it as " a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author." The high reputation it had in medieval times is attested by the numerous... | |
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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. 
