| Francis Charles Laird - Courts and courtiers - 1824 - 626 pages
...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 that sought... | |
| George Cavendish - Great Britain - 1825 - 398 pages
...This Cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour from bis 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 that sought... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 648 pages
...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 that... | |
| George Daniel, John Cumberland - English drama - 1826 - 530 pages
...This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour from Ms 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 - Bishops - 1827 - 618 pages
...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 that sought... | |
| 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 - 648 pages
...;' 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 sought... | |
| 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
...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 sought... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...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 sought... | |
| Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1828 - 534 pages
...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 sought... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1828 - 520 pages
...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 sought... | |
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