Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir Philip SidneyThomas Wilson and Son, 1809 - 400 páginas |
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... truth , which 64 know or believe to be false : it is a great sin against God , that gave you " you a tongue to speak your mind , and not to speak a lye : it is a great " offence against humanity itself ; for where there is no truth ...
... truth , which 64 know or believe to be false : it is a great sin against God , that gave you " you a tongue to speak your mind , and not to speak a lye : it is a great " offence against humanity itself ; for where there is no truth ...
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... truth , or " to avoid lying , even when he hath no colour or necessity for it ; and in " time he comes to such a pass , that , as another man cannot believe he tells " a truth , so he himself scarce knows when he tells a lye : and ...
... truth , or " to avoid lying , even when he hath no colour or necessity for it ; and in " time he comes to such a pass , that , as another man cannot believe he tells " a truth , so he himself scarce knows when he tells a lye : and ...
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... truth I may justly affirm , that I am , by my father's side , of antient and , always well - esteemed and well - matched gentry ; I do acknowledge , I say , " that my chiefest honour is to be a Dudley ; and truly I am glad to have ...
... truth I may justly affirm , that I am , by my father's side , of antient and , always well - esteemed and well - matched gentry ; I do acknowledge , I say , " that my chiefest honour is to be a Dudley ; and truly I am glad to have ...
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... truth , and that a prosecution was commenced against him for the praises which he bestows on Queen Elizabeth , and the severity with which he censures the cruelties against the Protestants . In 1575 Charles IX . before he was full ...
... truth , and that a prosecution was commenced against him for the praises which he bestows on Queen Elizabeth , and the severity with which he censures the cruelties against the Protestants . In 1575 Charles IX . before he was full ...
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... slipp'ry years up bore : He still hoped well , because I loved truth . 1 Arcadia . B. iii . Ir . ( 7 ) A word used by Shakespeare- " an exact concord . " H IF Languet may be justly compared to Socrates on account -57-
... slipp'ry years up bore : He still hoped well , because I loved truth . 1 Arcadia . B. iii . Ir . ( 7 ) A word used by Shakespeare- " an exact concord . " H IF Languet may be justly compared to Socrates on account -57-
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Página 200 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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.