The Love of Booksthe Philobiblon of Richard De Bury
The Love of Booksthe Philobiblon of Richard De Bury
Bury Richard De
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Wherefore we ordered the meanings of foreign words to be notedwith particular care, and studied the orthography, prosody, etymology, and syntax in ancient grammarians with unrelaxingcarefulness, and took pains to elucidate terms that had grown tooobscure by age with suitable explanations, in order to make asmooth path for our students. This is the whole reason why we took care to replace theantiquated volumes of the grammarians by improved codices, thatwe might make royal roads, by which our sc...holars in time to comemight attain without stumbling to any science. CHAPTER XIII WHY WE HAVE NOT WHOLLY NEGLECTED THE FABLES OF THE POETS All the varieties of attack directed against the poets by thelovers of naked truth may be repelled by a two-fold defence:either that even in an unseemly subject-matter we may learn acharming fashion of speech, or that where a fictitious butbecoming subject is handled, natural or historical truth ispursued under the guise of allegorical fiction. Although it is true that all men naturally desire knowledge, yetthey do not all take the same pleasure in learning.
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