 I will not wish unto you the ass's ears of Midas, nor to be driven by a poet's verses (as Bubonax was) to hang himself, nor to be rhymed to death, as is said to be done in Ireland; yet thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that...  The Retrospective Review - Page 551824Full view - About this book
 | Philip Sidney - 1860 - 404 pages
...much curse I must send you in the behalf of all poets ; that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour, for lacking skill of a sonnet; and...memory die from the earth, for want of an epitaph. ASTROPHEL AND STELLA. The succeeding collection of sonnets and songs was originally published under... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Great Britain - 1862 - 588 pages
...much curse I must send you, in behalf of all the poets — that, while you live, you live in love and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet, and...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph." The Defence of Poesie took altogether independent ground, but there were other books, about contemporary... | |
 | 1862 - 838 pages
...; that while you live, you live in love, and never get favor, for lacking skill of a sonnet; •nil when you die, Your memory die from the earth, for want of an epitaph.''* Again, in 1&S2, did Sidney petition for promotion, asking for the place of master of ordnance, in connection... | |
 | Literature - 1863 - 646 pages
...send you, in behalf of all the poets — that while you live, you live in love, and never get favor for lacking skill of a sonnet, and when you die, your...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph." Surely it was in the sunshine of court favor, and while still writing those graceful sonnets to Stella,... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1869 - 84 pages
...behalfe of all Poets, that while you Hue, you liue in loue, and neuer get fauour, for lacking fkill of a Sonnet : and when you die. your memory die from, the earth, for want of an Epitaph. FINIS. -'^ . it t ? 47.- V 'tfc^.> -.. *> '"fv' hv^.. ... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...much curse I must send you in the behalf of all poets ; that while you live, you live in love, and those perhaps neither among the Priests, nor among...we in the haste of a precipitant zeal shall make no In Philip Sidney's life there was not less action than thought. He was a noble type of the young energy... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - American essays - 1879 - 506 pages
...send you in the behalf of all poets ., that while you live, you live in love, and never get favor, for lacking skill of a sonnet ; and when you die,...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. As no " Apologie for Poetrie " has appeared among us, we hope that Sir Philip Sidney's " Defence "... | |
 | William Minto - English prose literature - 1881 - 596 pages
...much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all Poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour, for lacking skill of a Sonnet ;...memory die from the earth for want of an Epitaph." Melody. Harmony. — We have already remarked (Sentences, p. 201) that Sidney is versatile in the movement... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - American literature - 1882 - 492 pages
...much curse I must send you in the behalfe of all Poets, that, while you live, you live in love and never get favour for lacking skill of a Sonnet; and...memory die from the earth for want of an Epitaph. I Of a father who was a freedman. * Of the race of Hercules (son of Jupiter). ' There were three celebrated... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 pages
...I must send you in behalf of all Poets, that while you live, you live in love and never get favor, for lacking skill of a Sonnet, and when you die, your...memory die from the earth for want of an Epitaph."* Several of the contemporaries of Sir Philip Sidney wrote also tracts and criticisms on poetry. Indeed,... | |
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