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"Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge."
Sir Philip Sidney / Defence of Poesy.
Defence of Poesy.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner."
Sir Philip Sidney / Defence of Poesy.
Defence of Poesy.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet."
Sir Philip Sidney / Defence of Poesy.
Defence of Poesy.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy."
Sir Philip Sidney / Arcadia. Book i.
Arcadia. Book i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts."
Sir Philip Sidney / Arcadia. Book i.
Arcadia. Book i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"My dear, my better half."
Sir Philip Sidney / Arcadia. Book iii.
Arcadia. Book iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write."
Sir Philip Sidney / Astrophel and Stella, i.
Astrophel and Stella, i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Have I caught my heav'nly jewel."
Sir Philip Sidney / Astrophel and Stella, i. Second Song.
Astrophel and Stella, i. Second Song.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain