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" Thus, from the laureat fraternity of poets, riper years and the ceaseless round of study and reading led me to the shady spaces of philosophy ; but chiefly to the divine volumes of Plato, and his equal Xenophon : where, if I should tell ye what I learnt... "
Life of Torquato Tasso: With an Historical and Critical Account of His Writings - Page 330
by John Black - 1810
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Book News, Volume 23

Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1905 - 1008 pages
...the same quiet cloisters. ''The ceaseless round of study and reading," wrote the poet in after days, "led me to the shady spaces of philosophy, but chiefly to the divine volumes of Plato . . . with such abstracted sublimities as these, it might be worth your listening, readers, as I may...
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Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ...

Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 374 pages
...society of Bordello's. Thus, 25 from the Laureat fraternity of Poets, riper yeares and the ceaselesse round of study and reading led me to the shady spaces...but chiefly to the divine volumes of Plato and his equall Xenophon: Where, if I should tell ye what I learnt of chastity and love, I meane that which...
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Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century: 1650-1685

Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 388 pages
...society of Bordello's. Thus, 25 from the Laureat fraternity of Poets, riper yeares and the ceaselesse round of study and reading led me to the shady spaces...but chiefly to the divine volumes of Plato and his equall Xenophon: Where, if I should tell ye what I learnt of chastity and love, I meane that which...
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Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ...

Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 376 pages
...Bordello's. vThus, 25 fromjhe, T aiiFcat fraternity -ef Poets, riper yeares and the c€ase^sS£jtxuind,of study and reading led me to the shady spaces of philosophy,...but chiefly to the divine volumes of Plato and his equall Xenophon : Where, if I should tell ye what I learnt of chastity and love, I meane that which...
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Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ...: vol.II, 1650-1685; vol.III ...

Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 374 pages
...led me to the shady spaces of philosophy, but chiefly to the divine volumes of Plato and his equall Xenophon : Where, if I should tell ye what I learnt of chastity and love, I meane that which is 30 truly so, whose charming cup is only vertue, which she bears in her hand to...
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A History of English Prose Rhythm

George Saintsbury - English language - 1912 - 516 pages
...of that virtue which abhors the society of bordelloes. Thus, from the laureat fraternity of poets, riper years and the ceaseless round of study and reading...should tell ye what I learnt of chastity and love, I mean that which is truly so, whose charming cup is only virtue, which she bears in her hand to those...
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A History of English Prose Rhythm

George Saintsbury - English language - 1912 - 518 pages
...of that virtue which abhors the society of bordelloes. Thus, from the laureat fraternity of poets, riper years and the ceaseless round of study and reading...his equal Xenophon : where, if I should tell ye what 1 learnt of chastity and love, I mean that which is truly so, whose charming cup is only virtue, which...
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English Prose: From the sixteenth century to the restoration

Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1913 - 624 pages
...which abhors the society of bordelloes. - . :.... ::.; Thus, from the laureat fraternity of poets, riper years and the ceaseless round of study and reading...should tell ye what I learnt of chastity and love, I mean that which is truly so, whose charming cup is only virtue, which she bears in her hand to those...
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Essays on Milton

Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson - 1914 - 228 pages
...in Milton's own words in the Apology for Smectymnuus : "Thus from the laureate fraternity of poets, riper years and the ceaseless round of study and reading...the divine volumes of Plato, and his equal Xenophon: when, if I should tell ye what I learnt of chastity and love, I mean that which is truly so, whose...
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Methods and Aims in the Study of Literature: A Series of Extracts and ...

Lane Cooper - Literature - 1915 - 264 pages
...by such a dear adventure of themselves, had sworn. . . . Thus, from the laureat fraternity of poets, riper years and the ceaseless round of study and reading...should tell ye what I learnt of chastity and love — I mean that which is truly so, whose charming cup is only virtue, which she bears in her hand to...
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