 I no sooner (saith he) come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is Idleness, the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many...  Catalogue - Page 1041873 - 112 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Luther Albertus Brewer - 1916 - 50 pages
...satisfaction as do those who prefer baseball or motoring. / no sooner come into the library, says Heinsius, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is idleness, the mother of ignorance, and melancholy herself, and in the... | |
 | Edward Thomas - 1922 - 350 pages
...which to my thinking should have bred a loathing caused in him a greater liking. / no sooner (saith he) come into the Library , but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is idleness, the mother of ignorance, and Melancholy herself ; in the very... | |
 | G. A. E. Bogeng - 1922 - 560 pages
...to thy thinking should have bred a loathing, caused in him a greater liking. ,1 no sooner [saith he] come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is Idleness, the mother of Igorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the... | |
 | Francis Kingsley Ball - 1923 - 488 pages
...proof". The revised proof of the matter at the bottom of the preceding page would appear as follows : I no sooner come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is Idleness the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy herself ; and in the... | |
 | 1888 - 974 pages
...thy thinking should have bred a loathing, caused in him a greater liking. uf l no sooner (saith he) come into the Library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all tuch vices, whose nurse is idleness, their mother Ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the... | |
 | 1883 - 998 pages
...thy thinking should have bred a loathing, caused in him a greater liking. " ' 1 no sooner (saith he) come into the Library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is idleness, their mother Ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the... | |
 | Edward Thomas - 2005 - 304 pages
...which to my thinking should have bred a loathing caused in him a greater liking. / no sooner (saith he) come into the Library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is idleness, the mother of ignorance, and Melancholy herself; in the very... | |
 | Fitz Hugh Ludlow - 2006 - 358 pages
...exemplary in his faith; see Genesis (5:21). EXPLANATORY NOTES 307 choly: '"I no sooner' (saith [Heinsius]) 'come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is idleness, the mother of ignorance, and melancholy herself, and in the... | |
 | Natascha Gentz, Stefan Kramer - 2012 - 244 pages
...classical authors. The librarian from Leyden, Daniel Heinsius, wrote about his retreat into his library: I no sooner come into the library, but I bolt the door behind me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, . . . and in the very lap of eternity,... | |
 | Paul Jordan-Smith - 1931 - 158 pages
...ends, I now turn to a somewhat more detailed account. II THE THEME AND PRINCIPAL SOURCES OF THE ANATOMY I no sooner come into the Library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is idleness, the Mother of Ignorance and Melancholy herself, and in the... | |
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