Quotation by Sir Philip Sidney

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An Apology for Poetry (written 1579-1580, published 1595), ed. J. Churton Collins (1907)Arcadia Astrophel and Stella (1591)Certain Sonnets: A Farewell Defence of Poesie (written 1579-1580, published 1595)

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Nor envy's snaky eye, finds harbour here,
Nor flatterers' venomous insinuations,
Nor cunning humorists' puddled opinions,
Nor courteous ruin of proffered usury,
Nor time prattled away, cradle of ignorance,
Nor causeless duty, nor comber of arrogance,
Nor trifling title of vanity dazzleth us,
Nor golden manacles stand for a paradise;

Sir Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586), British poet. Arcadia. . .

Poets of the English Language, Vols. I–V. Vol. I: Langland to Spenser; Vol. II: Marlowe to Marvell; Vol. III: Milton to Goldsmith; Vol. IV: Blake to Poe; Vol. V: Tennyson to Yeats. W. H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, eds. (1950) The Viking Press.

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