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When Sidney died, " writes Richard Dutton, "those who mourned him did so as a hero of Protestant Europe, a model of Christian virtue, of the Renaissance scholar-poet, of the true knight." Dutton corrects the exaggerations in the popular view, painting a human, fallible and credible figure.

Excerpt from A Defence of Poesie and Poems Philip Sidney was born at Penshurst, in Kent, on the 29th of November, 1554. His father, Sir Henry Sidney, had married Mary, eldest daughter of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, and Philip was the eldest of their family of three sons and four daughters. Edmund Spenser and Walter Raleigh were of like age with Philip Sidney, differing only by about a year, and when Elizabeth became queen, on the 17t...

Excerpt from A History of the Gunpowder Plot: The Conspiracy and Its Agents N these pages I relate the oft-told story of the famous Gunpowder Plot. For spinning such a well-known yarn, I offer no apology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technolo...

Excerpt from The Ruling Passion, Vol. 2 of 3: A Comic Story of the Sixteenth Century He had actually paid away some guineas in premiums, and a place was appointed for the rendezvous, and now, the day being come for his departure, having had interest enough to postpone David's match till their affairs were mended, after most hearty salutes at parting, and engagement of inviolable affection and fidelity, they mounted their steeds in the afterno...

Excerpt from The Psalmes of David: Translated Into Divers and Sundry Kindes of Verse, More Rare and Excellent for the Method and Narictic Than Ever Yet Hath Been Done in English Psalmes, although of little or no poetic merit, was soon em ployed in cathedrals and parish churches throughout the country - for it had the virtue, important politically in the early days of the Elizabethan settlement, of being acceptable to both Anglican and Puritan...

Excerpt from Jane the Quene, Being Some Account of the Life and Literary Remains of Lady Jane Dudley, Commonly Called Lady Jane Grey Her education was consigned to the tender care and teaching of john Aylmer, * chaplain to the household at Bradgate, where this divine, who, in after days, was to wear a mitre, had taken refuge at an asylum during the last years of Henry VIII when the new-born Anglican ism was struggling against the hard-dying m...

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Excerpt from The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia: With the Additions of Sir William Alexander and Richard Beling, a Life of the Author and an IntroductionIN a broad survey of the early history of English prose fiction three periods mark themselves out with great distinctness. The later centuries of the middle ages were the age of romance, when both poet and proseman worked upon the same mass of legendary material, expanding and embellishing the...

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Excerpt from The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia: The Original Quarto Edition (1590) In Photographic Facsimile, With a Bibliographical IntroductionIt is with great pleasure I express my gratitude to E. Maunde Thompson, Esq., the Principal Librarian of the British Museum, for kindly permitting Mr. Charles Praetorius to photograph the copy of the edition of 1590 in the Grenville Collection. I am greatly obliged to Mr. R. E. Graves for valuable in...

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Excerpt from Certaine Sonets Since beart in cbillingfeare witb yce is warmed, In fine, since strife oftbougbt but marres tbe mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whils...

Excerpt from The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia His last day's danger, having made Pamela's 10 e discern what a loss it should have suffered l *4 Dorus had been destroyed, bred such tenderness of kindness in her toward him that she could no longer keep love from looking out eyes, and going forth in her words, whom befo prisoner she had to her heart only committed not only by his speeches and letters, but by the of languishing behaviour, and t...

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Excerpt from Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney, Vol. 1: With Remarks TO set forth a just model of a King and Hero, these pictures of the noble heart of Sir Philip Sidney were collect ed. He shone throughout Europe as a statesman, a man of letters, and a hero, during his short but brilliant life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a rep...

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