| Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1852 - 478 pages
...been published of late years. " How many," says Sir Philip Sidney, one of the imaginary collocutors, " How many, who have abandoned for public life the studies...the nature of that vast body into which they run, ita dreariness, its bitterness, its foams, its storms, its everlasting noise and commotion ? I have... | |
| Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1863 - 472 pages
...published of late years. "How many," says Sir Philip Sidney, one of the imaginary collocutors, — "how many, who have abandoned for public life the...which they run, its dreariness, its bitterness, its foams, its storms, its everlasting noise and commotion. I have known several such, and when I have... | |
| Sir Henry Taylor - English drama - 1864 - 354 pages
...been published of late years. " How many," says Sir Philip Sidney, one of the imaginary collocutors, " How many, who have abandoned for public life the studies...which they run, its dreariness, its bitterness, its foams, its storms, its everlasting noise and commotion ? I have known several such, and when I have... | |
| William Giles Goddard - Political science - 1870 - 616 pages
...forsake Literature for Politics: " How many," says Sir Philip Sydney, one of the imaginary collocutors, " how many who have abandoned for public life the studies...which they run, its dreariness, its bitterness, its foams, its storms, its everlasting noise and commotion ! I have known several such, and when I have... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 538 pages
...the generous affections, by such studies and pursuits as best furnish the mind for their reception. How many, who have abandoned for public life the studies...tranquillity by their bright resemblance of it, and which afterward partake the nature of that vast body whereinto they run, its dreariness, its bitterness,... | |
| William Mathews - American essays - 1881 - 358 pages
...jangling pursuits of politics. " How many," says Sir Philip Sidney, one of the imaginary interlocutors, " who have abandoned for public life the studies of...tranquillity by their bright resemblance of it, and which afterward partake of the nature of that vast body into which they run, its dreariness, its bitterness,... | |
| Sidney Colvin - English literature - 1882 - 434 pages
...and more lamps burn over them, and more religiously, than are lighted in temples or churches. LIx. Sidney. How many, who have abandoned for public life...tranquillity by their bright resemblance of it, and which afterward partake the nature of that vast body whereinto they run, its dreariness, its bitterness,... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - English literature - 1882 - 546 pages
...and more lamps burn over them, and more religiously, than are lighted in temples or churches. LIX. Sidney. How many, who have abandoned for public life...tranquillity by their bright resemblance of it, and which afterward partake the nature of that vast body whereinto they run, its dreariness, its bitterness,... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary conversations - 1883 - 460 pages
...the generous affections by such studies and pursuits as best furnish the mind for their reception. How many, who have abandoned for public life the studies...tranquillity by their bright resemblance of it, and which afterward partake the nature of that vast body whereinto they run, — its dreariness, its bitterness,... | |
| Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1883 - 464 pages
...published of late years. "How many," says Sir Philip Sidney, one of the imaginary collocutors, — " how many, who have abandoned for public life the studies...and have invited us to tranquillity by their bright resem. blance of it, and which afterwards partake the nature of that vast body into which they run,... | |
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