The Life of Sir Philip Sidney (Paperback)

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. 1862. Excerpt: ... out of his own purse 6,000/., which he could ill afford, for the discharge of his son-in-law's liabilities. His daughter was at first overwhelmed with care and sorrow for her loss. For some weeks she remained at Utrecht, too ill to return to England. In December she bore a dead child, and for a long time her life was in serious danger. She recovered, however, and lived to see another husband taken from her by a violent death, an object of popular sympathy, equally strong, though far less worthy. Her second husband was Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. After his execution she joined the Roman Catholic religion. Some years later she was married a third time, to the Earl of Clanricarde. Elizabeth Sidney, Sir Philip's only daughter, who received from the Queen her own name, was married to the Earl of Rutland, and died at the age of thirty, without issue. It is delightful to turn from these sequels of Sidney's life, which are not without sadness, as seeming to efface his bright remembrance from the world, to review the elegies which were written in his memory. The admiration and sorrow of the English people found utterance in poetry more copious and tender, perhaps, than has ever been poured forth in lamentation for any man's death in any nation. Oxford and Cambridge published three volumes of Latin elegiac verse, entitled "Lachrymae," of which two volumes were contributed by the former university. King James of Scotland, by whom, in one of his last letters, Sidney had desired to be held in affectionate remembrance, showed his esteem for his deceased friend by Sonnets, of indifferent merit, both in English and Latin. To recite even the names of the authors, who have celebrated Sidney's praises in prose and verse, would be tedious; for the list, it is said, m..