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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... things are prefent , is fometimes pleased to caft forth the emblem of our deftinies , fo ftrangely hidden in the covert of ambiguous words , that , doubtless , it ferves to beget nothing but matters of diftruft , and la- byrinths of ...
... things are prefent , is fometimes pleased to caft forth the emblem of our deftinies , fo ftrangely hidden in the covert of ambiguous words , that , doubtless , it ferves to beget nothing but matters of diftruft , and la- byrinths of ...
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... things . Madam , replied the naked knight , I thought the gods could not have favoured me more , than in giving you refpite of life , and me power to be ferviceable to you : but when I confider the end I must employ my endea- vours to ...
... things . Madam , replied the naked knight , I thought the gods could not have favoured me more , than in giving you refpite of life , and me power to be ferviceable to you : but when I confider the end I must employ my endea- vours to ...
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... things infe- parable . In him begun this tragedy , in me it ends : for when my father and Fluento had drawn their agree ment to a head , then , and not before , he thought it time , he faid , to let me know my happiness . And thus ...
... things infe- parable . In him begun this tragedy , in me it ends : for when my father and Fluento had drawn their agree ment to a head , then , and not before , he thought it time , he faid , to let me know my happiness . And thus ...
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... things in his own perfon paft the power of expreffion ) made a bloody flaughter among them . Some few there were that efcaped ; among whom Plexirtus ( for- tune being alway indulgent to mifchief ) found , in the fpeed of his horfe , a ...
... things in his own perfon paft the power of expreffion ) made a bloody flaughter among them . Some few there were that efcaped ; among whom Plexirtus ( for- tune being alway indulgent to mifchief ) found , in the fpeed of his horfe , a ...
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... , fpeedy goers , and strong abiders , trium phers both in camps and courts : nay , to fo unbelieved a point he proceeded , as that no earthly thing bred fuch Potiùs Equerry , B 2 won- wonder to a prince , as to be a good.
... , fpeedy goers , and strong abiders , trium phers both in camps and courts : nay , to fo unbelieved a point he proceeded , as that no earthly thing bred fuch Potiùs Equerry , B 2 won- wonder to a prince , as to be a good.
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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.