 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...most generous encomiast.— "This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Wat fashioned to much honour From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wilet fair spoken, and persuading. Men*s evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write m water."... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 648 pages
...I were malicious else. Grif- This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour. From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty, and sour, to them that lov'd him not ; But, to those men... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 488 pages
...passage has been absurdly pointed in all the modern editions: — • ' This cardinal, &c. Was fashion'd to much honour. From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one.' 9 ' Unwilling to outlive the good that did it.' Good appears here to be put for gooduess, as in the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 648 pages
...Himself with princes ;' But not without reason, for if he had faults he had also many virtues : — ' . From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But to those men that... | |
 | Stephen Hyde Cassan - 1827 - 618 pages
...Ecclesiastic. - This Cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much hoiionr. From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one : Exceeding wise, fair spoken, aud persuading : Lofty and sour, to them that lov'a him not ; But. to those men... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 650 pages
...with princes ;' But not without reason, for if he had faults he had also many virtues : — 4 .... From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Loftv and sour to them that loved him not ; But to those men that... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...Griffith; I were malicious else. Grif. This Cardinal, Though from a humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour. From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading: Lofty and sour, to them that loved him not; But, to those men that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 384 pages
...I were malicious else. Gnf. This cardinal, Though from an humhle stock, undouhtedly Was ftishion'd to much honour from his cradle. He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty, and sour, to them that lov'd him not; But, to those men... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 522 pages
...Himself with princes; but not without reason, for if he had faults, he had also many virtues:— ' From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading: Lofty and sour to them that loved him not; But to those men that... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 520 pages
...ranking Himself with princes; but not without reason, for if he had faults, he had also many virtues:— From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading: Lofly and sour to them that loved him not; But to those men that... | |
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Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer And though he were unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin,) yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely... 
