The Works of the Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, Kt. in Prose and Verse: I. A sixth book to the countess of Pembroke's ArcadiaE. Taylor, A. Bettesworth, E. Curll, W. Mears, and R. Gosling., 1724 |
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... fince my deftinies have fo fat down , that the whole courfe of my life fhould be in- evitably difaftrous , I muft think my tragedy is not yet acted ; though what worse than hath befallen me cannot be imagined , or what may be kept in ...
... fince my deftinies have fo fat down , that the whole courfe of my life fhould be in- evitably difaftrous , I muft think my tragedy is not yet acted ; though what worse than hath befallen me cannot be imagined , or what may be kept in ...
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... of my conftant love : he ( alas ! why fhould I live to fpeak it ? ) not long fince following the course of his VOL . III . adventures , . B adventures , came to Amafia , where he was made Book VI . Pembroke's ARCADIA . 17.
... of my conftant love : he ( alas ! why fhould I live to fpeak it ? ) not long fince following the course of his VOL . III . adventures , . B adventures , came to Amafia , where he was made Book VI . Pembroke's ARCADIA . 17.
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... fince I have buried in oblivion the thought of your rafhness , because I knew ( by what after happened ) that the gods had made you an inftrument to work their ends ; It were injury therefore to question his actions , whofe will was not ...
... fince I have buried in oblivion the thought of your rafhness , because I knew ( by what after happened ) that the gods had made you an inftrument to work their ends ; It were injury therefore to question his actions , whofe will was not ...
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... fince you efteem worth your hearing , I fhall efteem worthy my relation . There yet governs , and then did , among the nobility of Laconia , one Creton , a man elected to the crown rather to recompense the defert of his ancestors , than ...
... fince you efteem worth your hearing , I fhall efteem worthy my relation . There yet governs , and then did , among the nobility of Laconia , one Creton , a man elected to the crown rather to recompense the defert of his ancestors , than ...
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... fince I have found , by this fortunate unman- nerlinefs , your answers fo refolutely oppofed to his de- mands , henceforth I vow to work your freedom , or bring myself to perifli with you . Her fault found an eafy pardon at the tribunal ...
... fince I have found , by this fortunate unman- nerlinefs , your answers fo refolutely oppofed to his de- mands , henceforth I vow to work your freedom , or bring myself to perifli with you . Her fault found an eafy pardon at the tribunal ...
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Page 73 - Of those fierce darts despair at me doth throw; 0 make in me those civil wars to cease; 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed, A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light, A rosy garland and a weary head; And if -these things, as being thine by right, Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me, Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
Page 22 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Page 69 - Is constant love deemed there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they be? Do they above love to be loved, and yet Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there, ungratefulness?
Page 3 - I remember mine ears were at any time more loaden, than when (either angered with slow payment, or moved with our learner-like admiration) he exercised his speech in the praise of his faculty. He said soldiers were the noblest estate of mankind, and horsemen the noblest of soldiers. He said they were the masters of war, and ornaments of peace...
Page 43 - Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. 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 4 - ... the first light-giver to ignorance, and first nurse, whose milk by little and little enabled them to feed afterwards of tougher knowledges.
Page 19 - ... or private matters; where the historian in his bare was hath many times that which we call fortune to overrule the best wisdom.
Page 12 - This purifying of wit, this enriching of memory, enabling of judgment, and enlarging of conceit, which commonly we call learning, under what name soever it come forth, or to what immediate end soever it be directed, the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls made worse by their clayey lodgings can be capable of.
Page 9 - Adam, since our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it.
Page 16 - Stoics said, was a short madness: let but Sophocles bring you Ajax on a stage, killing and whipping sheep and oxen, thinking them the army of Greeks, with their chieftains Agamemnon and Menelaus, and tell me if you have not a more familiar insight into anger than finding in the schoolmen his genus and difference.