 | Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 pages
...fla:tery, the beait of moft beauty, faithtulneis, courage, and liich more, that if 1 had not been a piecs of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have perluaded me to have wifhed myfelf a horfe. But thus piuch, at leaft, with his no few words, he drove... | |
 | Sir Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1787 - 158 pages
...ferviceable courtier, without flattery, the beaft of moft beauty, faithfulnefs, courage ; and fuch more, that if I had not been a piece of a Logician before I came to him, I think he would have perfuaded me to have wifhed myfelf a horfe. But thus much, at leaft, with his no few words, he drove... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 458 pages
...animal, the horse, of his beauty, his faithfulness, and his courage, that his pupil facetiously says : " if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came...have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse." In the second book of the Arcadia, he has finely described the management of this animal. The works... | |
 | Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 424 pages
...forte procuravissem, si me tui instituti con*' scium esse voluisses." Epis. Languetiad Sidneium I. •"been a piece of a logician, before I came to him,..." he would have persuaded me to have wished myself an 1horse(2)." During his stay at Vienna he acquired all those accomplishments, with which the Conte... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
...the horse, of his beauty, bis faithfulness, and his courage, that his pupil facetiously says : " if 1 had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would bare persuaded me to have wished myself a horse." In the second book of the Arcadia, he has finely... | |
 | 1810 - 438 pages
...animal the horse, of his beauty, his faithfulness and his courage, that his pupil facetiously says, ' if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came...would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse/ In the second book of the Arcadia, he has finely described the management of this animal. — The works... | |
 | 1809 - 448 pages
...and his courage, that his pupil facetiously says : " if 1 had not heen a piece of a logician hefore I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse." In the second hook of the Arcadia, he has finely descrihed the management of this animal. The works... | |
 | 1814 - 774 pages
...serviceable courtier without flattery, the beast of the most beauty, faithfulness, courage, and such more, that if I had not been a piece of a logician...I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me lo wish myself a horse. But this much, with his no few words he drove into me, — that self-love is... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...Pugliana, he says* discoursed with such fertileness and spirit on the various merits 0f the animal, " that if I had not been a piece of a logician before...I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myielf a horse." * Away with the Caesarian bread ! At these immortal mangers Virgil /•</.] Alluding... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1822 - 312 pages
...affectionately contemplated on the peerless object of his fame, that Sir Philip Sidney tells us, " had I not been a piece of a logician before I came to him,...would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse. But thus much," adds that fine genius, " he drove into me, that self-love is better than any gilding... | |
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... in comparison. Then would he add certain praises by telling what a peerless beast the horse was, the only serviceable courtier, without flattery, the beast of most beauty, faithfulness, courage, and such more, that if I had not been a piece of a logician... 
