The story of English literature for young readers . he day was could it be otherwise when, on all sides, display,flattery, fine speeches, pretty airs and graces, were somuch admired ? There was a writer named John Lylyor Lillie, whose works were much sought after ; hisstyle was very high-flown and what we, today, wouldcall stilted. He wrote a book called Euphues,fromwhich we take the word Euphuism, and this wasfull of phrases in his pecu-liar, grandiose manner. Lylys books became all thefashion ; and a writer whoedited his works after hisdeath says All our ladieswere then his s
The story of English literature for young readers . he day was could it be otherwise when, on all sides, display,flattery, fine speeches, pretty airs and graces, were somuch admired ? There was a writer named John Lylyor Lillie, whose works were much sought after ; hisstyle was very high-flown and what we, today, wouldcall stilted. He wrote a book called Euphues,fromwhich we take the word Euphuism, and this wasfull of phrases in his pecu-liar, grandiose manner. Lylys books became all thefashion ; and a writer whoedited his works after hisdeath says All our ladieswere then his schollers, andthat Beautie in court who Elizabethan Ruff. COuld nOt parley Euphucisms was as Httle regarded as shee which now there speaksnot french. In London a man called Ponsonby kept a book-shopin the Strand. It was a queer little place. The streetswere often narrow then, even in London ; the shopslow, and the first story projected over the entrance jthe roofs were peaked, the windows, whether juttingout or bow-shaped, had small panes of 64 The Story of English Literature Ponsonby was a great publisher in his day. Manywriters brought him their works, and if you had goneinto his shop you would have found the writings ofa whole band of poets j but of these let us considerfirst three — all friends, all well-known today: Sir Phil-ip Sidney, Walter Raleigh, and last, but greatest poet,Edmund Spenser. I hardly know what to tell you first of Sir PhilipSidney. He was the idol of the nation in Elizabethsday. Everybody loved him, everybody respectedhim — a brave, generous, frank-hearted gentleman,who had much more to recommend him to our notice to-day than his fine dress and noble, manly, young flattery seemed to touch his sweet, frank prosperity made him forget the sufferings of home was at Penshurst, or Milton, where he livedwith his beautiful sister Mary, the Countess of Pem-broke ; but he was much in London, where all thecourt worshipped hi
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