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The name of Sir Philip Sidney is associated with many pleasing and delightful
recollections. We remember him as one of the greatest ornaments of the most
glorious reign in our annals—as one of the chief favourites of that great queen
whom ...
The name of Sir Philip Sidney is associated with many pleasing and delightful
recollections. We remember him as one of the greatest ornaments of the most
glorious reign in our annals—as one of the chief favourites of that great queen
whom ...
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His Arcadia, the present subject of our remarks, if not so uniformly pleasing .#
satisfactory, is, after all, the great foundation on which his fame must rest, and to
which his right to a place amongst the great masters of the human mind must ...
His Arcadia, the present subject of our remarks, if not so uniformly pleasing .#
satisfactory, is, after all, the great foundation on which his fame must rest, and to
which his right to a place amongst the great masters of the human mind must ...
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... from the silvery gleams which his fancy sheds upon it in its course. Around it
are all the luxuriant. o. of earth, above it is all the varied grandeur of heaven, and
the voice of sadly pleasing and melancholy inspiration is heard along its shores.
... from the silvery gleams which his fancy sheds upon it in its course. Around it
are all the luxuriant. o. of earth, above it is all the varied grandeur of heaven, and
the voice of sadly pleasing and melancholy inspiration is heard along its shores.
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The silvery glittering of the language, the unearthly loftiness of its heroes, the
etheriality of their aspirations, and the sweet tones of genuine and unstudied
feeling which it sounds forth, all combine to embue our souls with a soft and
pleasing ...
The silvery glittering of the language, the unearthly loftiness of its heroes, the
etheriality of their aspirations, and the sweet tones of genuine and unstudied
feeling which it sounds forth, all combine to embue our souls with a soft and
pleasing ...
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In pleasing the latter, our hero was so successful that in her last sickness she
would scarcely permit him to be out of her chamber, gave him “five pounds in old
gold,” and being prevented from adequately rewarding his attentions, ...i im to
help ...
In pleasing the latter, our hero was so successful that in her last sickness she
would scarcely permit him to be out of her chamber, gave him “five pounds in old
gold,” and being prevented from adequately rewarding his attentions, ...i im to
help ...
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Страница 101 - Give me, next good, an understanding wife, By Nature wise, not learned by much art; Some knowledge on her side will all my life More scope of conversation impart; Besides, her inborne virtue fortifie; They are most firmly good, who best know why.
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Страница 346 - First, I send you all the thanks which my heart can conceive, or my words express, for your many travails and cares for me, which, though they have not taken effect as you wished, yet my debt to you is not the less ; but pay it I never shall in this world.
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