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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... prince , and the cruel facrifice of inraged Dido's love . Nor was the ftory of Scylla forgotten , who there ftood before Minos , with the prefent of her fa- ther's fatal hair , while you might perceive , by his bent brows and difdainful ...
... prince , and the cruel facrifice of inraged Dido's love . Nor was the ftory of Scylla forgotten , who there ftood before Minos , with the prefent of her fa- ther's fatal hair , while you might perceive , by his bent brows and difdainful ...
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... prince of Andria , famous for his conftant love to the fair Lydia , now married , and queen of Epire , and ever fortunate in the courfe of his ad . ventures but here his fortune gave place to virtue , or , rather , joined with her , to ...
... prince of Andria , famous for his conftant love to the fair Lydia , now married , and queen of Epire , and ever fortunate in the courfe of his ad . ventures but here his fortune gave place to virtue , or , rather , joined with her , to ...
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... prince of that country ; whofe brother it was Amphialus's fortune to kill in rescue of a lady , to whom he would have offered di- fhonourable violence . Thefe news came to mine cars ( to add more to many miferies ) at that time when I ...
... prince of that country ; whofe brother it was Amphialus's fortune to kill in rescue of a lady , to whom he would have offered di- fhonourable violence . Thefe news came to mine cars ( to add more to many miferies ) at that time when I ...
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... prince of Theffalia , whom the gods have beftowed as a bleffing on my daughter Pamela . Amphialus , now affured by the king's fpeech , unto whofe hand the honour of his conqueft had fallen ( for doubt had long tormented him , that some ...
... prince of Theffalia , whom the gods have beftowed as a bleffing on my daughter Pamela . Amphialus , now affured by the king's fpeech , unto whofe hand the honour of his conqueft had fallen ( for doubt had long tormented him , that some ...
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... prince , faid Amphialus , your virtue will always choofe , to be of the weaker fide . And fo turning to Philoclea , Divine lady , faid he , in your ex- cellent choice of the famous Pyrocles , you have ( befides the happiness gained to ...
... prince , faid Amphialus , your virtue will always choofe , to be of the weaker fide . And fo turning to Philoclea , Divine lady , faid he , in your ex- cellent choice of the famous Pyrocles , you have ( befides the happiness gained to ...
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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.