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 anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior - Page 416by Robert Burton - 1821Full view - About this book
| Robert Burton - 1800 - 616 pages
...learn, and the last day is prioris discipulus ; harsh at nrst learning is, radices amarte, but fractus dulces, according to that of Isocrates, pleasant at...bred a loathing-, caused in him a greater liking. " TI no sooner (saith he] come into the Library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition,... | |
| Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1804 - 622 pages
...pleasant at last ; the longer they live, the more they are enamoured with , the M lises. Heineius, the keeper of the library at Leiden in Holland, was...have bred a loathing, caused in him a greater liking. "I no sooner (saith he) come into the library, but I bolt I he door to me, excluding lust, ambition,... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - Anecdotes - 1807 - 538 pages
...University of Leyden. — " Heinsins was mewed up in that Library all the year long, and that which to my .thinking should have bred a loathing, caused in him a greater liking. I no sooner (saith he) come into the Library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding Lust, Ambition,... | |
| Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1821 - 612 pages
...Isocrates, pleasant at last; the longer they live, the more they are enamoured with the Muses. -3ieinsius, the keeper of the library at Leiden in Holland, was...have bred a loathing, caused in him a greater liking. a / no sooner (saith he) come info the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition,... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - Culture in literature - 1824 - 538 pages
...discipulus" "Heinsius was mewed up in the library of Leyden all the year long, and that which to my thinking should have bred a loathing, caused in him a greater liking. I no sooner, saith he, come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding Lust, Ambition,... | |
| 1827 - 996 pages
...some might have bred a loathing,, caused in him a greater liking. " I no sooner (saith he) come to 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,... | |
| THOMAS RODD - 1834 - 704 pages
...MDCCCXXXIV, OK SALE AT THE PRICES AFFIXED, BY THOMAS RODD, No. 2, GREAT NEWPORT STREET. " I no sooner coine 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 her self; and in the very lap of eteruity,... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1835 - 474 pages
...Ion«, and that which to my thinking should have bred a Inathing, caused in him a greater liking. Ï no sooner, saith he, come into the library, but I bolt the door то me, excluding Lust, Ambition, Avarice, and all such vices. whose nurse is Idleness, the mm her... | |
| Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1837 - 644 pages
...have bred a loathing-, caused ii him a greater liking. ' / no sooner (saith he) come into iklibrary, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is Idlenesse t« mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy her self; and in tic very lap of eternity,... | |
| Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1838 - 762 pages
...according to that of Isocrates, pleasant at last ; the longer they live, the more they are enamoured of the Muses. Heinsius, the keeper of the library at...have bred a loathing, caused in him a greater liking. n / tto sooner (saith he) come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition,... | |
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