 Author of all ages and times permits us miserable mortals, puffed up with emptiness, thus to wander about, until finally, coming to a tardy consciousness of our sins, we shall learn to know ourselves. In my prime I was blessed with a quick and active...  Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes - Pagina 65door Vincent Ilardi - 2007 - 378 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Francesco Petrarca - 1898 - 494 pagina’s
...and active body, although not exceptionally ( strong; and while I do not lay claim to remarkable "T- personal beauty, I was comely enough in my best days.'...and forced me, to my great annoyance, to resort to glasses.1 Although I had previously enjoyed perfect health, old age brought with it the usual array... | |
 | Francesco Petrarca - 1899 - 472 pagina’s
...and while I do not lay claim to remarkable " personal beauty, I was comely enough in my best days.1 I was possessed of a clear complexion, between light...and forced me, to my great annoyance, to resort to glasses.3 Although I had previously enjoyed perfect health, old age brought with it the usual array... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson - 1904 - 592 pagina’s
...about, until finally, coming to a tardy consciousness of our sins, we shall learn to know ourselves. In my prime I was blessed with a quick and active...birthday, and forced me, to my great annoyance, to resqrt to glasses. Although I had'previously enjoyed perfect health, old age brought with it the usual... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - 1907 - 520 pagina’s
...quick and active body, alPhyaical though not exceptionally strong; and while I do appearance not iav claim to remarkable personal beauty, I was comely...and forced me, to my great annoyance, to resort to glasses.1 Although 1 had previously enjoyed perfect health, old age brought with it the usual array... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - 1907 - 522 pagina’s
...was blessed with a quick and active body, alPhysical though not exceptionally strong; and while I do complexion, between light and dark, lively eyes, and...and forced me, to my great annoyance, to resort to glasses.1 Although 1 had previously enjoyed perfect health, old age brought with it the usual array... | |
 | Thomas F. Glick, Steven John Livesey, Faith Wallis - 2005 - 632 pagina’s
...Posterity (1367) that at age sixty he felt the need for eyeglasses: "For long years [I was possessed of] a keen vision, which however deserted me, contrary...forced me, to my great annoyance, to resort to glasses" (Ilardi, Detail of St. Jerome in his Study by Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494). (Bridgeman Art Library)... | |
 | 1918 - 478 pagina’s
...permission and that of the publishers from GP PUTNAM'S SONS' "Petrarch, the First Modern. Scholar." I was comely enough in my best days. I was possessed...and forced me, to my great annoyance, to resort to glasses.2 Although I had previously enjoyed perfect health, old age brought with it the usual array... | |
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