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They were all looking about at the lofty hall with its carved oak ceiling, minstrels' gallery, stained-glass windows, and large fireplace. "This has recently all been restored, and I suppose it gives us a very slight idea of its past glory. Later on, Sir Thomas More lived here, and then Philip Sidney's sister, the Countess of Pembroke, owned it.
Lieutenant Kinraid, who had shared his captain's daring adventure off the coast of France three years before, who had been a prisoner with him and Westley Wright, in the Temple at Paris, and had escaped with them, and, through Sir Sidney's earnest recommendation, been promoted from being a warrant officer to the rank of lieutenant, received on this day the honour from his admiral of being appointed to an especial post of danger.
In what respects does the style of any Elizabethan prose writer show an improvement over that of Mandeville and Malory? Lyrics. For specimens of love sonnets, read Nos. 18, 33, 73, 104, 111, and 116 of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Compare them with any of Sidney's Spenser's sonnets.
But the smile with which he speedily answered Sidney's look of trouble was full of reassurance. 'You couldn't have said anything that would give me more pleasure, he replied, just above his breath. 'Does she know it? Did you speak to her? 'We were talking of years ago, and I mentioned Clara Hewett. I said that I had forgotten all about her except that she'd befriended Jane.
'But I think I ought to go home now. You see, when I came out I didn't expect ... Did you? 'No! Yes.... It had to come.... But if any one had told me an hour ago!... Sidney's unspeakable parlour and the mud on the carpet. 'Oh, I say! Is my cheek clean now? 'Not quite. Lend me your hanky again a minute, darling.... What a purler you came! 'You can't talk.
Sir William Russell, too, all blood-stained from the fight, threw his arms around his friend, wept like a child, and kissing his hand, exclaimed, "Oh! noble Sir Philip, never did man attain hurt so honourably or serve so valiantly as you." Sir William Pelham declared "that Sidney's noble courage in the face of our enemies had won him a name of continuing honour."
They pushed on to Glasgow; and though at first repulsed, they afterwards made themselves masters of that city; dispossessed the established clergy; and issued proclamations, in which they declared, that they fought against the king's supremacy, against Popery and prelacy and against a Popish successor. * Algernon Sidney's Letters, p. 90.
Philip was painfully acute to Sidney's affection, was jealous of every particle of it. He dreaded lest his brother should ever be torn from him. He would start from his sleep at night, and go to Sidney's bed to see that he was there. He left him in the morning with forebodings he returned in the dark with fear.
"There certainly is no vanity in that remark," she said. "Now I can't imagine most of the men I know thinking that." "It's only theory with me. In practice doubtless I should be as self-complacent as any other man." They left Mrs. Sidney's together and Howard walked down the Avenue with her. It seemed a wonderful afternoon the air dazzling, intoxicating.
"'Gold! Sidney called out, and held it up in a black stocking, so high that every one laughed." "Not Mingo, I fancy." "Ah, no, nor the keeper of the gang." " Wonder how Mingo was behaving." "He? he was shaking and weeping, and begging this and that of the man who held and threatened him, to keep him quiet. So then the auctioneer began to call Sidney's bid.
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