Her parents, the duke and duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber, reading... Poems - Page 19by Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 48 pagesFull view - About this book
| Arthur H. Sidgwick - English poetry - 1906 - 40 pages
...knew the Republic so well as to quote it without acknowledgment ; Lady Jane Grey read the Phaedo " with as much delight as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Boccaccio." * We may roughly distinguish three ways in which Greek philosophy influenced poetry in... | |
| 1906 - 690 pages
...good-bye before he left for Germany, and she was ' in her chamber reading Phaedon Platonis in Greeke, and that with as much delight as some gentlemen would read a merrie tale in Bocase '. Elizabeth herself wrote a commentary on Plato, translated two orations from... | |
| Books and reading - 1908 - 408 pages
...household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber, reading Phaedo Platonis in Greek, and that with as much delight as...some other talk, I asked her, why she would lose such pasttime in the park? Smiling, she answered me; "I wist, all their sport in the park is but a shadow... | |
| Ida Ashworth Taylor - Great Britain - 1908 - 388 pages
...the park, and Jane, in the seclusion of her chamber, was engaged in studying the Phaedo of Plato, " with as much delight as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Boccaccio," when Ascham presented himself to her. The conversation between the scholar and the student... | |
| Roger Ascham - Latin language - 1909 - 206 pages
...gentlemen, and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber reading " Phasdon Platonis " in Greek, and that with as much delight as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Bocase. After salutation and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her why she would lose such pastime... | |
| Henry Duff Traill, James Saumarez Mann - Great Britain - 1909 - 478 pages
...childhood can never be forgotten. While her parents were hunting he found her reading Plato's Phaido in Greek, and that with as much delight as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Boccaccio. Asked why she did not hunt with the others, she answered that the sharpness and severity... | |
| Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber reading "Phaedon 910 Bocase.2 After salutation and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her why she would lose such... | |
| Oscar Kuhns - Books and reading - 1910 - 178 pages
...parents, with all the household, were hunting in the park: "I found her in her chamber, reading Phaedo Platonis in Greek, and that with as much delight as some gentlemen would read a merry tale of Boccaccio. After salutation and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her why she would lose... | |
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