 | Sir Philip Sidney - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1807 - 258 pages
...hapa or mishaps, even as he ordereth his heart. • How excellently composed is that mind, which shews a piercing wit, quite void of ostentation, high-erected thoughts, seated in a heart of courtesy, and eloquence, as sweet in the uttering, as slow to come to the uttering, and a behaviour so noble,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...piercing wit, quite void of ostentation, high erected thoughts, seated in a heart of courtesy, and eloquence, as sweet in the uttering, as slow to come to the uttering; and a behaviour so noble, as gives beauty to pomp, and majesty to adversity — Sir P. Sidney. LII.... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...piercing wit, quite void' of ostentation, high erected thoughts, seated in a heart of courtesy, and eloquence, as sweet in the uttering, as slow to come to the uttering; and a behaviour so noble, as gives beauty to pomp, and majesty to adversity — Sir P. Sidney. Ln.... | |
 | 1858 - 372 pages
...highly-favoured country, and was delighted to have with him a mind of such excellent composition, a piercing wit void of ostentation, high-erected thoughts, seated in a heart of courtesy, an eloquence as sweet in uttering as slow to come to the uttering, a behaviour so noble as gave a majesty to adversity, and... | |
 | S. M. Henry Davis - 1859 - 490 pages
...Pyrocles ; and finding in his guest " a mind of most excellent composition, a piercing wit quite devoid of ostentation, higherected thoughts seated in a heart...sweet in the uttering as slow to come to the uttering, a behavior so noble as gave a majesty to adversity, and all in a man whose age could not be above one... | |
 | 1862 - 838 pages
...Sidney speaks of Musidorus as having " a mind of most excellent composition, a piercing wit quite devoid of ostentation, high-erected thoughts seated in a...sweet in the uttering as slow to come to the uttering, a behavior so noble as gave a majesty to adversity," &c. He does not give this sketch of Nature : "... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Great Britain - 1862 - 588 pages
...him " a mind of most excellent composition, a piercing wit quite void of ostentation, high erected thoughts seated in a heart of courtesy, an eloquence as sweet in the uttering as it was slow to come to the uttering, and a behaviour so noble as gave a majesty to adversity." Thus... | |
 | S. M. Henry Davis - 1875 - 340 pages
...guest '' a mind of most excellent composition, a piercing wit quite devoid of ostentation, highetected thoughts seated in a heart of courtesy, an eloquence...sweet in the uttering as slow to come to the uttering, a behavior so noble as gave a majesty to adversity, and all in a man whose age could not be above one... | |
 | Mary Frederica P. Dunbar - 1883 - 416 pages
...August 14. Learn the luxury of doing good. GOLDSMITH. Excellently composed is that mind which shows a piercing wit, quite void of ostentation ; high-erected thoughts, seated in a heart of courtesy ; eloquence, sweet in the uttering ; and a behaviour so noble, as gives beauty to pomp and majesty... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Chivalry - 1891 - 668 pages
...him " a mind of most excellent composition, a piercing wit quite devoid of ostentation, high erected thoughts seated in a heart of courtesy, an eloquence as sweet in the uttering as it was slow to come to the uttering, and a behaviour so noble as gave a majesty to adversity " ; yet... | |
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... a piercing wit quite void of ostentation, high erected thoughts seated in a heart of courtesy, an eloquence as sweet in the uttering as slow to come to the uttering, a behaviour so noble as gave a majesty to adversity... 
