. The life of Sir Philip Sidney . The Life of Sir Philip Sidney, Chapter I. FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD. Kent thy birth-days, and Oxford held thy youth:The heavens made hafte, and ftaid nor years nor time :The fruits of age grew ripe in thy firft prime,Thy will, thy words, thy words, the feals of truth. Sir Walter Raleigh. HE name of Sir Philip Sidney is oneof the brightest in Englifri fame refts upon the noble titleof the praife of thofe who are them-felves moft praifeworthy. Living at an illuftriousperiod of our annals, his eminent worth as a fol-dier, ftatefman, and author, was extolle
. The life of Sir Philip Sidney . The Life of Sir Philip Sidney, Chapter I. FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD. Kent thy birth-days, and Oxford held thy youth:The heavens made hafte, and ftaid nor years nor time :The fruits of age grew ripe in thy firft prime,Thy will, thy words, thy words, the feals of truth. Sir Walter Raleigh. HE name of Sir Philip Sidney is oneof the brightest in Englifri fame refts upon the noble titleof the praife of thofe who are them-felves moft praifeworthy. Living at an illuftriousperiod of our annals, his eminent worth as a fol-dier, ftatefman, and author, was extolled by thegeneral voice of his contemporaries. Such popu-larity is fometimes a mere fafhion of the day,which is apt to miflead the wifeft judgment, andfrom which the critics of Elizabeths reign were B. 2 The Life of certainly not exempt. At firft fight one mightbe inclined to afcribe Sidneys reputation to thisinfluence; for the acts of his fhort career arehardly fufficient in themfelves to account for theapplaufe which was beftowed upon him, and theuniverfal forrow of his countrymen when he , although his literary works have long ceafedto be popular, few who have written of him inlater times have failed to regard his memory withadmiration almoft unqualified, and with tendernefsrefembling that of private friendship. The fecret of his fame feems to lie in thefingular beauty of his life ; which has been welldefcribed as cc poetry put into action. He wasthe perfect type of a gentleman. If the chiefqualities comprehended under this term are gene-rofity, dignity, refinement of heart and mind, itwould be hard to find in any age or nation abetter example than Sidney. His foul overflowedwith magnanimity and fympathy. Thefe inwardexcellencies were fet off, when living, by ex-treme bea
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