| Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 pages
...fla:tery, the beait of moft beauty, faithtulneis, courage, and liich more, that if 1 had not been a piecs of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have perluaded me to have wifhed myfelf a horfe. But thus piuch, at leaft, with his no few words, he drove... | |
| Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 458 pages
...animal, the horse, of his beauty, his faithfulness, and his courage, that his pupil facetiously says : " if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse." In the second book of the Arcadia, he has finely described... | |
| 1809 - 914 pages
...the horse, of his beauty, bis faithfulness, and his courage, that his pupil facetiously says : " if 1 had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would bare persuaded me to have wished myself a horse." In the second book of the Arcadia, he has finely... | |
| Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 424 pages
...forte procuravissem, si me tui instituti con*' scium esse voluisses." Epis. Languetiad Sidneium I. •"been a piece of a logician, before I came to him, I think " he would have persuaded me to have wished myself an 1horse(2)." During his stay at Vienna he acquired all those accomplishments,... | |
| 1810 - 438 pages
...animal the horse, of his beauty, his faithfulness and his courage, that his pupil facetiously says, ' if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse/ In the second book of the Arcadia, he has finely described... | |
| 1814 - 774 pages
...serviceable courtier without flattery, the beast of the most beauty, faithfulness, courage, and such more, that if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me lo wish myself a horse. But this much, with his no few words he drove into me, — that... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...Pugliana, he says* discoursed with such fertileness and spirit on the various merits 0f the animal, " that if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myielf a horse." * Away with the Caesarian bread ! At these immortal mangers... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1822 - 312 pages
...affectionately contemplated on the peerless object of his fame, that Sir Philip Sidney tells us, " had I not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse. But thus much," adds that fine genius, " he drove into... | |
| 1822 - 746 pages
...serviceable courtier without flatterie, the beast of most beauly, faithfulness, cou.-uge, and such more, that if I had not been a piece of a logician before I саше to h'iin, 1 think ha would have perewadcd me to have wi»ht myself a hors. But thus much at... | |
| 1829 - 460 pages
...was at Vienna, the Emperor had an Equerry who spoke so eloquently of horses as made Sir Philip say, ' If I had not been a piece of a logician .before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse.' Christian Argument.— St. Louis earnestly counselled... | |
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