Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's "De Consolatione Philosophiæ.": Ed. from the Additional Ms. 10,340 in the British Museum. Collated with Cambridge Univ. Libr. Ms. Ii. 3. 21Early English Text Society, 1868 - 205 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة i - CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, . Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask? The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied » In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which...
الصفحة xvii - The senator Boethius is the last of the Romans whom Cato or Tully could have acknowledged for their countryman.
الصفحة xx - Athens, now condescended to illumine his dungeon, to revive his courage, and to pour into his wounds her salutary balm. She taught him to compare his long prosperity and his recent distress, and to conceive new hopes from the inconstancy of fortune. Reason had informed him of the precarious condition of her gifts ; experience had satisfied him. of their real value ; he had enjoyed them without guilt, he...
الصفحة xx - While Boethius, oppressed with fetters, expected each moment the sentence or the stroke of death, he composed, in the tower of Pavia, the Consolation of Philosophy ; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author.
الصفحة v - But of a thing that parfyt is and stable, Descendyng so, til it be corumpable.
الصفحة xviii - The Church was edified by his profound defence of the orthodox creed against the Arian, the Eutychian, and the Nestorian heresies ; and the Catholic unity was explained or exposed in a formal treatise by the indifference of three distinct though consubstantial persons.
الصفحة iv - That, that the se, that gredy is to flowen, Constreyneth to a certeyn ende so His flodes that so fiersly they ne growen To drenchen erthe and al for evere mo...
الصفحة xi - That is of ignoraunce ay in derknesse? " Now if he woot that joie is transitorie, As every joie of worldly thyng mot flee, Than every tyme he that hath in memorie, The drede of lesyng maketh hym that he 830 May in no perfit selynesse be; And if to lese his joie he sette a myte, Than semeth it that joie is worth ful lite.
الصفحة viii - For if ther sit a man yonde on a see, Than by necessite bihoveth it That certes thyn opinioun soth be, That wenest or conjectest that he sit ; And, further over, now...