The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
By Sidney, Philip
Classic work by Sidney, Philip.
Table of Contents
NOTES INTRODUCTION {vii} In a broad survey of the early history of English prose fiction three periods mark themselves out with great distinctness. The later centuries of the m...
Pamela or Philoclea, type of lofty virtue, forerunner of the Clarissas and Belindas of Richardson; the vicious Queen Cecropia recalling the Phaedras and Sthenobaeas of Greek lege...
at the desire of some great personage--his Uncle Robert, I suppose, Earl of Leicester, upon which a great quarrel happened between him and Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford. This, as I c...
{1} It was in the time that the earth begins to put on her new apparel against the approach of her lover, and that the sun, running a most even course, becomes an indifferent arbi...
{121} In these pastoral times a great number of days were sent to follow their flying predecessors, while the cup of poison (which was deeply tasted of the noble company) had left...
{299} This last day’s danger, having made Pamela’s love discern what a loss it should have suffered if Dorus had been destroyed, bred such tenderness of kindness in her toward him...
may buy mine honour, to believe any word they say, but, my dear Pyrocles, even look for the worst, and prepare thyself for the same. Yet I must confess, I was content to rob from d...
{523} The almighty wisdom evermore delighting to show the world that by unlikeliest means greatest matters may come to conclusion; that human reason may be the more humbled, and m...
now that all things were grown ripe for an end, made his folly the instrument of revealing that which far greater cunning had sought to conceal. For so it fell out that Dametas hav...
{577} The dangerous division of men’s minds, the ruinous renting of all estates, had now brought Arcadia to feel the pangs of uttermost peril, such convulsions never coming, but t...
{633} [_This Sixth Book was written in the Year 1633._] What changes in fortune the princes of Macedon and Thessaly have passed, together with what event the uncertain actions o...
[b1-01] _running at Base_] The old game of prisoner’s-base, then a common rustic pastime. [b1-02] _recklessness_] _i.e._ Carelessness. See Spencer. [b1-03] _ruefully_] Woef...
[b3-01] _sowed_] _i.e._ Scattered. [b3-02] _sow_] _i.e._ Spread. [b3-03] _Keep_] _i.e._ A strong tower in the middle of a castle, the last resort of the besieged. [b3-04]...
[b5-01] _Knights of the Order_] Of the Garter. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES The title-page to the 1593 edition--taken from _The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney_, Volume II (Cambridg...