 | Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - 1840 - 354 Seiten
...were malicious else. Griffith. This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fasbion'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 sought... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1840 - 256 Seiten
...Kirkland as a man of letters. " Light, and understanding, and wisdom, and knowledge, were found in him." " He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading." At the outset, however, I am ready to admit that he was not a very profound or thorough student. His... | |
 | Norman Moore - 1913 - 72 Seiten
...always to be remembered as a benefactor, and what they knew of him was best expressed in the lines He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken and persuading. Erasmus has shown his admiration of Linacre as a scholar and as a physician in many passages, as in... | |
 | Charles Henry Poole - 1914 - 450 Seiten
...King Henry VIII." Act IV. Sc. * 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... | |
 | David Murray - 1915 - 60 Seiten
...Not only his latter end, but his whole life was peace. . . .' Let me add in the words of the poet, From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken and persuading ; So excellent in art, and still so rising, That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue. ... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1916 - 1174 Seiten
...cardinal, Though from a humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour from his cradle. 60 He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding...summer. And though he were unsatisfied in getting, — 55 Ipswich, and Oxford ! one of which fell with him, Unwilling to outlive the good that did it... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1921 - 468 Seiten
...Griffith's speech to Katharine in Shakespeare's Henry VIII (IV, 2) : ' This Cardinal . . . Was fashioned 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... | |
 | Sir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender - 1921 - 444 Seiten
...CARDINAL WOLSEY1 1475 (?)— 1530 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. SHAKESPEARE. A LETTER TO THE BISHOP OF WORCESTER FARNHAM, 26 August, 1512. AND to ascerteyne vow of... | |
 | 1918 - 638 Seiten
...rare type of the cultured gentleman, the ideal practitioner, the widely read scholar, and true friend. He was a scholar and a ripe and good one, Exceeding wise, fair spoken and persuading, And to those who sought his counsel, as sweet as summer. For the long period of nearly fifty years... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1879 - 796 Seiten
...a ripe and good one; Excecding wise, fair spoken, and persuading: Lofty and sour to them that loved him not; But to those men that sought him sweet as...were unsatisfied in getting, Which was a sin, yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely : ever witness for him Those twins of learning that he raised... | |
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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 him, sweet as summer. 
