 In that city are delightful libraries in cells redolent of aromatics ; there flourishing green-houses of all sorts of volumes ; there academic meads trembling with the earthquake of Athenian peripatetics pacing up and down ; there the promontories of...  Part the first. History of libraries - Page 379by Edward Edwards - 1859Full view - About this book
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1846 - 828 pages
...to be few. In that city are delightful libraries in cells redolent of aromatica; there flourishing green-houses of all sorts of volumes ; there academic...promontories of Parnassus, and the porticos of the Stoics. There, in very deed, with an open treasury and untied purse-strings, we scattered money with... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 602 pages
...to be few. In that city are delightful libraries in cells redolent of aromatics ; there flourishing green-houses of all sorts of volumes; there academic...promontories of Parnassus, and the porticos of the Stoics. There, in very deed, with an open treasury and untied pursestrings, we scattered money with... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1845 - 684 pages
...to be few. In that city are delightful libraries in cells redolent of aromatics ; there nourishing green-houses of all sorts of volumes ; there academic...promontories of Parnassus, and the porticos of the Stoics. There, in very deed, with an open treasury and untied purse-strings, we scattered money with... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1846 - 634 pages
...to he few. In that city are delightful libraries in cells redolent of aromatics; there Flourishing green-houses of all sorts of volumes; there academic...promontories of Parnassus, and the porticos of the Stoics. There, in very deed, with an open treasury and untied purse-strings, we scattered money with... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1846 - 636 pages
...to be few. In that city are delightful libraries in cells redolent of aromatics ; there flourishing green-houses of all sorts of volumes ; there academic...promontories of Parnassus, and the porticos of the Stoics. There, in very deed, with an open treasury and untied purse-strings, we scattered money with... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1846 - 822 pages
...to be few. la that city are delightful libraries in cells redolent of aromatics; there flourishing green-houses of all sorts of volumes ; there academic...promontories of Parnassus, and the porticos of the Stoics. There, in very deed, with an open treasury and untied purse-strings, we scattered money with... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1846 - 610 pages
...In that city are delightful libraries in cells redolent of aromatice; there flourishing green-lmuees of all sorts of volumes; there academic meads trembling...promontories of Parnassus, and the porticos of the Stoics. There, in very deed, with an open treasury and untied pursestrings, we scattered money with... | |
 | 1846 - 352 pages
...to be few. In that city are delightful libraries in cells redolent of aromatics ; there flourishing green-houses of all sorts of volumes ; there academic...down ; there the promontories of Parnassus, and the porticoes of the Stoics. There, in very deed, with an open treasury and untied purse .strings, we scattered... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1846 - 704 pages
...to be few. In that city are delightful libraries in cells redolent of aromaties ; there flourishing green-houses of all sorts of volumes ; there academic meads trembling with the earthquake of Athenian peripateties pacing up and down ; there the promontories of Parnassus, and the porticos of the Stoies.... | |
 | Periodicals - 1847 - 724 pages
...the world ! In that city are delightful libraries in cells redolent of aromatics ; there flourishing greenhouses of all sorts of volumes; there academic...Athenian peripatetics, pacing up and down ; there the promonotories of Parnassus, and the porticos of the Stoics." Lord Chancellor De Bury died in 1345,... | |
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