 | W M. Wade - 1817 - 662 pages
...a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading: Lofty and sour to them who lov'd him not ; But, to those men who sought him, sweet as summer. And though he was unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin,) yet in bestowing, Madam, He was most princely.... | |
 | W. M. Wade - Oxford (England) - 1818 - 524 pages
...ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading: Lofty and sour to them xvho lov'd him not ; But, to those men who sought him, sweet as summer. And though he was unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin,) yet in bestowing, Madam, He was most princely.... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1820 - 748 pages
...also, as Shakspeare say* of Wolsey, ' fair spoken and persuading ; r.ofly and sour, to them that lovM him not; But to those men who sought him, sweet as summer.' " In his way to England, and during feis stay at Plymouth, he gained the good wishes of most of those... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 542 pages
...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 sought him, sweet as summer. And though he were uusatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin,} yet... | |
 | Francis Charles Laird - Courts and courtiers - 1824 - 626 pages
...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 sought him, sweet as summer. And though he were unsatisfied in getting (Which was a sin), yet... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 444 pages
...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 sought him, sweet as summer: And though he were unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin,) yet... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 398 pages
...to return alone. These postillions were certainly not in love! CHAP. XI. MR. TEEMAINE IMPROVES. •' Lofty and sour to them that loved him not; " But to those men thot sought him, sweet as Summer." SHAKSPEAHF. WE shall not enquire whether Mr. Tremaine had any, or... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - English drama - 1826 - 530 pages
...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 sought him, sweet as summer : And though he were unsatisfy'd in getting, (Which was a sin) yet... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1827 - 650 pages
...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 sought him, sweet as summer. And though he were unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin) yet... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...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 sought him, sweet as summer. And though he were unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin) yet... | |
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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 loved him not ; But, to those men... 
