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Quotation by Sir Philip Sidney
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Sir Philip Sidney (46)Additional Sources
An Apology for Poetry (written 1579-1580, published 1595), ed. J. Churton Collins (1907)ArcadiaAstrophel and Stella (1591)Certain Sonnets: A FarewellDefence of Poesie (written 1579-1580, published 1595)Related Subjects
nature (5) freedom (3) war (3) love (2) God (2) resignation (2) knowledge (2) identity (1) life (1) network (1)
Thy necessity is yet greater than mine.
Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586), British poet, diplomat, soldier. Quoted in Life of Sir Philip Sidney, ch. 12, Sir Fulke Greville (1652).
offering his water to a dying soldier, at the battle of Zutphen, Sept. 22, 1586, where Sidney himself had received a mortal wound.
offering his water to a dying soldier, at the battle of Zutphen, Sept. 22, 1586, where Sidney himself had received a mortal wound.
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