 | P E. S - 1869 - 142 pages
...UK Frontispiece. EDINBURGH: TOHNSTONE, HUNTER, & CO LINDSAY LEE. CHAPTEE I. THE OLD BOOK STALL. • The place that does contain My books, the best companions,...court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophei s.' • EFORM !' muttered Lindsay Lee. turning contemptuously away, ' it strikes me there's... | |
 | Bands of hope - 1868 - 224 pages
...material, moral, and religious progress. COMPANIONSHIP OF BOOKS. Give me Leave to enjoy myself. That place, that does Contain my books, the best companions,...hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels ; Calling their... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1871 - 692 pages
...; Oh, quick voiced echo of the hills, Must you be first to make reply? HB EMBRYO LIBRARIES. " That place, that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court." — FLETCHER. T UVENAL drew a portrait for all time, when — after I speaking of the narrow couch,... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Authors - 1872 - 530 pages
...Tlato." Like the speaker in The Elder Brother, his cue was, . " Give me leave To enjoy myself: that place that does contain My books, the best companions,...hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers." i Very near the end of his autobiography comes Gibbon's complacent avowal: " The love of study, a passion... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...280. BOOKS, Pleasure o£ Give me Leave to enjoy myself. That place that does Contain my books, tho ; And sometimes for variety I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels ; Calling their... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - Authors, English - 1872 - 438 pages
...FLETCHER, the Dramatist, has the following very sensible lines : — " Give me Leave to enjoy myself. That place that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious conrt where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes, for variety, I confer... | |
 | Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 pages
...read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Bacon. The place that does contain My books, the best companions,...hourly I converse "With the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes for variety I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels, Calling their... | |
 | Percival Keane (pseud.) - 1873 - 128 pages
..." an ape, sir ! My pedigree commences where your own terminates." THE PLEASURES OF A LIBRARY. That place that does contain My books, the best companions,...hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes for variety I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels, Calling their... | |
 | William John Fitz-Patrick - Church historians - 1873 - 414 pages
...dukedom large enough." THE TEMPEST, Act i., Scene ii. " The place that doth contain These books, my best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the oldest sages and philosophers; And sometimes, for variety, confer With kings and emperors, and weigh... | |
 | William John Fitzpatrick - 1873 - 370 pages
...dukedom large enough." THE TEMPEST, Act i., Scene ii. " The place that doth contain These books, my best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the oldest sages and philosophers; And sometimes, for variety, confer With kings and emperors, and weigh... | |
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That place, that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes for variety I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels ; Calling their... 
