| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1830 - 368 pages
...in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophic, -tyi Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. 298 But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, But all that he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on lerning he it spente, And besily gan for... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1830 - 364 pages
...clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. zge But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, But all that he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on lerning he it spente, And besily gan for... | |
| Robert Southey - 1831 - 1038 pages
...clothed in blake or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophic, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, But all that he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on leming he it spente, And besily gan for... | |
| Great Britain. [Appendix. - Miscellaneous.] - 1836 - 416 pages
...riche, or fidel, or sautrie. It is then added, in sly allusion to the alchemical dreams of the day, But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre. Than the pathos which characterises the story of Grisildis nothing can be more pure and exquisite ;... | |
| Edwin Guest - 1838 - 342 pages
...of our souls had wander'd in the air, Ban|ish'd this frail j sepulchre : of | our flesh |. R 2,1. 3. But all | be that | he was|: a phil\oso\phre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofire. Chau. Prol. Again | his might : ther gain|en non | obstacles, He may | be clep|ed : a god |... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1839 - 932 pages
...bokes clothed in blake or red Of Aristotle and his philosophie Then robes riche, or fidel or sautrie . But all be that he was a philosophre Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofro, But all that he might of his frendes hente On bokes and on lerning he it spente, And besily... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 524 pages
...bokes clothed in blake or red Of Aristotle and his philosophie Then robes riche, or fidel or sautrie : But all be that he was a philosophre Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre. Hut all that he might of his frendes heute On bokes and on leming he it speutc, And besily gan for... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...clothed in black and red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, But all that he might of his frendes hente 4 On bokes and on lerning he it spente, And besily gan for... | |
| John Henry Newman - 1845 - 590 pages
...time.8 Thus, it makes a part of the scholar's portrait in Chaucer, that he was supported by alms : — But all be that he was a philosophre Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, 7 Quandam pecuniffi summam modico duraturam tempore, B. But all that he might of his frendes hente... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1845 - 348 pages
...bokes, clothed w itack °r Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, But all that he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on lerning he it spente, And besily gan for... | |
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