Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir Philip SidneyThomas Wilson and Son, 1809 - 400 pages |
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... elegance of his Latin style , and characterized as " the common refuge for young 66 poor Henry VIII . , Henry Earl of Surrey was imprisoned in Windsor Castle for eating flesh in Lent ; and one of the most beautiful of his compositions ...
... elegance of his Latin style , and characterized as " the common refuge for young 66 poor Henry VIII . , Henry Earl of Surrey was imprisoned in Windsor Castle for eating flesh in Lent ; and one of the most beautiful of his compositions ...
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... elegance of his language , his pru- dence , his temperance , the suavity of his manners , and his extraordinary modesty ( 6 ) . No one knew more intimately the political history of his own times , the tempers , the views " Parisiensi ...
... elegance of his language , his pru- dence , his temperance , the suavity of his manners , and his extraordinary modesty ( 6 ) . No one knew more intimately the political history of his own times , the tempers , the views " Parisiensi ...
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... elegance and purity of language , not unworthy of the best and most polished authors of Rome in the Augustan age ( 9 ) . IN September 1573 , Mr. Sidney seems to have been attended only by his servants . Languet , having com- mended him ...
... elegance and purity of language , not unworthy of the best and most polished authors of Rome in the Augustan age ( 9 ) . IN September 1573 , Mr. Sidney seems to have been attended only by his servants . Languet , having com- mended him ...
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... elegance of language , but for the importance of the matter which they contain . From them , more than from any other records of antiquity , we learn the several causes which hastened the destruction of the Roman Republic.- He advised ...
... elegance of language , but for the importance of the matter which they contain . From them , more than from any other records of antiquity , we learn the several causes which hastened the destruction of the Roman Republic.- He advised ...
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... elegance and beauty of his person , in the affability of his manners , and in his love of arms , he did not preserve himself from that imputation of inhumanity ( 2 ) Pindar's character of Demophilus is truly applicable to Mr. Sidney at ...
... elegance and beauty of his person , in the affability of his manners , and in his love of arms , he did not preserve himself from that imputation of inhumanity ( 2 ) Pindar's character of Demophilus is truly applicable to Mr. Sidney at ...
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Page 200 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Page 337 - O take fast hold; let that light be thy guide In this small course which birth draws out to death, And think how evil becometh him to slide, Who seeketh heaven, and comes of heav'nly breath.
Page 19 - I will report no other wonder than this, that, though I lived with him and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man ; with such staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace and reverence above greater years ; his talk ever of knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind...
Page 266 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
Page 385 - And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord. And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it.
Page 277 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be ! — Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign : — O God, forgive him ! War.
Page 135 - Having this day my horse, my hand, my lance Guided so well that I obtained the prize, Both by the judgment of the English eyes And of some sent from that sweet enemy, France...
Page 205 - Upon the back of that, comes out a hideous monster, with fire and smoke and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While, in the meantime, two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Page 149 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Page 337 - Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust, And thou my mind aspire to higher things: Grow rich in that which never taketh rust: What ever fades, but fading pleasure brings.