Famous quotes containing the words sir philip sidney, philip sidney and/or sidney:
“Thou blind mans mark, thou fools self-chosen snare,
Fond Fancys scum and dregs of scattered thought,
Band of all evils, cradle of causeless care,
Thou web of will whose end is never wrought;
Desire! desire, I have too dearly bought
With price of mangled mind thy worthless ware;”
—Sir Philip Sidney (15541586)
“I never drank of Aganippe well,
Nor ever did in shade of Tempe sit,
And muses scorn with vulgar brains to dwell;
Poor layman I, for sacred rites unfit.
Some do I hear of poets fury tell,
But, God wot, wot not what they mean by it;
And this I swear by blackest brook of hell,
I am no pickpurse of anothers wit.”
—Sir Philip Sidney (15541586)
“Well, begone, begone, I say,
Lest that Argus eyes perceive you.
Oh, unjust Fortunes sway,
Which can make me thus to leave you,
And from louts to run away.”
—Sir Philip Sidney (15541586)