 I wis all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas, good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.  Poems - Page 231by Samuel Rogers - 1845Full view - About this book
 | 1861 - 790 pages
...gentlemen aud gentlewomen, were hunting in thu park. I found her in her chamber reading Phaedo 1'latoms in Greek, and that with as much delight as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Boccace. After salntation and duty done, with some other talk. I asked her why she would lose such pastime in the... | |
 | Ruth Wills - 1861 - 106 pages
...household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber, reading Phsedon Platonis in Greek, and that with as much delight as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Bocace. After salutation, and duty done with some other talk, I asked her why she should lose such... | |
 | William Burt Harlow - English literature - 1884 - 154 pages
...and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber reading Plato's Phedo in the Greek, and that with as much delight as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Boccaccio. After salutation and duty done, with some other talk I asked her why she would lose so much... | |
 | Rose Georgina Kingsley - 1884 - 150 pages
...Lady Jane Grey, before going to Germany, he found her in her chamber reading Plato's Pfuzdon in Greek, with as much delight as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Boccacio. Her parents and all the gentlemen and gentlewomen were hunting in the park; but she said... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - Education - 1888 - 1260 pages
...classical scholarship. Roger Ascham finds " that noble lady, Jane Grey, in her chamber reading Phaedo Platonis in Greek, and that with as much delight as...some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Boccace." Again he tells how "he and the Queen's Majesty (*'. f., Elizabeth,) read together in the Greek tongue... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1888 - 876 pages
...gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found lier," says Ascham, •' in her chamber, reading Pha'do Platonis in Greek, and that with as much delight, as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Boceare. After salutation, and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her, why she would lose such... | |
 | James Henry Carlisle - 1890 - 312 pages
...household, Gentlemen and Gentlewomen, were hunting in the Park. I found her in her chamber reading Phadon Platonis in Greek, and that with as much delight as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Bocacio. After salutation, and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her why she would leave such... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 272 pages
...household, Gentlemen and Gentlewomen, were hunting in the Park. I found her in her chamber reading Phcedon Platonis in Greek, and that with as much delight as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Bocacio. After salutation, and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her why she would leave such... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1891 - 888 pages
...Household. Gentlemen and Gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber, reading Phtedo Platonis in Greek, and that with as much delight as...done, with some other talk, I asked her, why she would «e such pastime in the park? Smiling, she answered me ; I wist, all their sport in the park is but... | |
 | A. L. Stronach - English literature - 1891 - 290 pages
...gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. 2. I found her in her chamber reading "Phaedon Platonis"2in Greek, and that with as much delight as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Bocace.3 After salutation and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her why she would lose such... | |
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