Étienne Dolet: The Martyr of the Renaissance, 1508-1546. A Biography

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Macmillan, 1880 - 570 páginas
 

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Página 422 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Página 11 - We can scarcely find a literary man from the middle of the fifteenth to the middle of the sixteenth century who had not been engaged in some diplomatic negotiations either as ambassador or as secretary.
Página xxiv - And if I have done well, and as is fitting the story, it is that which I desired : but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto.
Página 372 - Ille potens sui Laetusque deget, cui licet in diem Dixisse ' Vixi ;' eras vel atra Nube polum pater occupato Vel sole puro; non tamen irritum 45 Quodcunque retro est, efficiet, neque Diffinget infectumque reddet Quod fugiens semel hora vexit.
Página xxiv - My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on ; Judge not the play before the play Is done ; Her plot has many changes ; every day Speaks a new scene : the last act crowns the play.
Página xxiv - And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not: and let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not. So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
Página 541 - L'Enfer de Clement Marot de Cahors en Quercy, valet de chambre du Roy.
Página 455 - He then, so Florent Junius was informed by the official, warned the assistants to read his books with much circumspection, and declared several times that they contained many things which he had not properly understood or meant. A moment afterwards the sentence was carried out. He was suspended at the gallows, and then, when he was possibly dead, but more probably still breathing, the faggots were lighted, and the author and his books were consumed in the flames. Such was the manner in which the...
Página 152 - The time for Dolet's final departure from Toulouse had now arrived. At the end of May or in the first days of June 1534, and whilst suffering from a fever, the result as it would seem of mental anxiety, he had hastily to withdraw from Toulouse to avoid a second arrest. He...
Página xi - MS. is, however, merely a compilation from printed and well-known sources. friends. Two hasty perusals of these manuscripts and the extracts which I have made have certainly not exhausted all matters of interest, and it has been a source of regret to me that I have been unable to have constantly at hand, or to consult without long journeys, these manuscripts, as well as the unique copies of several books which exist at Lyons, Bordeaux, Orleans, Dole, Roanne, and elsewhere.

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