 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 Literary world, conducted by J. Timbs - Seite 216herausgegeben von - 1839Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Louis O'Neil - 1893 - 154 Seiten
...is idleness, the mother of ignorance and melancholy herself ; and in the very lap of eternity among so many divine souls, I take my seat with so lofty a spirit and sweet content that I pity all our great ones and rich men who know not this happiness." 8 Addison expressed... | |
 | 1891 - 396 Seiten
...nurse is idleness, the mother of ignorance and melancholy ; and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat, with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that I pity all our great ones and rich men, that know not their happiness." Authorship.... | |
 | William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Francis Trevelyan Miller - 1907 - 758 Seiten
...secured. He often repeated the sentiment of Heinsius : "I no sooner come into my library than I bolt tht door after me, excluding ambition, avarice, and all...all the great and rich who know not this happiness." Even the ordinary housekeeping sounds must be made under protest. An unlucky fall, the slamming of... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 344 Seiten
...but a shadow of that pleasure I find in Plato." " In the lap of Eternity," said Heinsius, ' ' among so many divine souls, I take my seat with so lofty...and such sweet content, that I pity all the great ones and rich men, that have not this happiness." " Death itself divides not the wise," says Bulwer.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1899 - 1172 Seiten
...excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that I pity all oar great ones, and rich men that know not this happiness." — Hmnsius,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, David Patrick - 1901 - 862 Seiten
...Idlenesse, the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy her selfe ; and in the very lap of eternity, amongst r then their threats will kill me ; Nor look too kind on my desi sweet content, that I pity all our great ones and rich men, that know not this happinesse.' I am not... | |
 | Edwards Amasa Park - 1902 - 376 Seiten
...of the world. More than once, with his wonted vivacity, has he repeated the sentiment of Heinsius : "I no sooner come into my library, than I bolt the...all the great and rich who know not this happiness." A few years ago, when he made a certain discovery with regard to the book of Job, he could not sleep... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1902 - 834 Seiten
...whose nurse is idleness, the mother of ignorance and melancholy. In the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that I pity all our great ones and rich men that know not this happiness." Rooms are... | |
 | 1903 - 450 Seiten
...is idleness, the mother of ignorance and melancholy herself; and In the very lap of eternity among so many divine souls, I take my seat with so lofty a spirit and sweet content that I pity all our great ones and rich men who know not this happiness." Addison expressed... | |
 | American Library Association - 1905 - 586 Seiten
...excluding lust, ambition, avarice and melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat with so lofty a spirit and sweet content that I pity all our great ones and rich men that know not this happiness." LIBRARY ARCHITECTURE... | |
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