This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ... Essex was the hope that Sidney would marry his daughter. Indeed the young man's popularity at Court seems to have been general; his beauty and intellectual power were so much admired, that Languet feared he might sink to the level of a mere fashionable dilettante. "You see," he writes to him, in November 1576, "how ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ... Essex was the hope that Sidney would marry his daughter. Indeed the young man's popularity at Court seems to have been general; his beauty and intellectual power were so much admired, that Languet feared he might sink to the level of a mere fashionable dilettante. "You see," he writes to him, in November 1576, "how unkindly I am answering your letter so full of kindness. I do thank you for it, though I cannot suffer you to run the risk of squandering your powers in idleness. I never doubted that you 1 Apologiefor Poetrie (Arber's Reprint), p. 18. would at once secure the admiration of all your friends, and of all the noblest men about you." 1 In 1577 it seemed for a moment as if Sidney were to have an opportunity of finding a channel of action for the large conceptions he had formed of national life and policy. He was sent by the Queen to congratulate Rudolph, son of Maximilian II., on his succession to the Empire, and he seized the opportunity to endeavour to unite the Princes of Germany in a league against Rome and Spain. To Rudolph at Prague he pointed out the dangers threatening national independence from the joint aggression of these powers; while at Neustadt, and afterwards at Lauterburg, he sought to compose the conflicts that had broken out in the Palatinate between the Lutherans and Calvinists. On his way home he laid the foundation of a firm friendship with William of Orange. Walsingham, now Secretary of State, expressed to Sir Henry Sidney his high approval of his son's Conduct during the embassy: "There hath not been any gentleman, I am sure, these many years that hath gone through an honourable charge with so great commendations as he."2 But in England all these dreams of great action, seemed to melt away amid the...
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