 | John Pancoast Gordy - Education - 1903 - 328 pages
...the effect of the other. To illustrate. Take the story of Cardinal Wolsey. Shakspere tells us that " from his cradle he was a scholar, and a ripe and good one, exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading," avaricious indeed, but of princely generosity, endowing, after the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Recitations - 1904 - 236 pages
...Griffith, I were malicious else. GRIF. This cardinal, Though from a humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour from his cradle. He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading ; Lofty and sour to them that lov'd him not; But, to those men that... | |
 | 1904 - 926 pages
...reserve about him. If I may take liberties wilh the words of our great Poet I would say of him that " From his cradle He was a Scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken and persuading, To those who knew him not reserved in manner, But to those men that... | |
 | George Cavendish - Cardinals - 1905 - 252 pages
...traditional by Shakespeare. . . . This Cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion' 'd to much honour from his cradle. He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty, and sour, to them that lov'd him not, But, to those men... | |
 | Alfred Plummer - 1905 - 226 pages
...UNDER HENRY VIII. AND WOLSEY. " This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour from his cradle. He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that lov'd him not ; But, to those men that... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Literature - 1910 - 330 pages
...malicious else. Orif. The Cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashioned to much honor from his cradle. He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them that loved him not; But to those that sought... | |
 | William Jaggard - Liverpool (England) - 1905 - 60 pages
...Shakespeare, master of all phases and professions, supplies an apt description of a good bookseller : — From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one, Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those that sought... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1908 - 204 pages
...I were malicious else. Grif. This Cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashioned to much honour from his cradle. He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading ; Lofty and sour to them that loved him not , But, to those men that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1908 - 206 pages
...I were malicious else. Grif. This Cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashioned to much honour from his cradle. He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading ; '39 Lofty and sour to them that loved him not , But, to those men... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...to Skin and Bone, That Flesh and Blood can't bear it. 1410 JohnByrom: On Two Monopolists, EPITA.PHS. From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them that lov'd him not, But to those men that... | |
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Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer And though he were unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin,) yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely... 
