Gantter’s
Standard Poets of
Great Britain.
“Sheridan was above the middle size, and of a make robust and well-proportioned. In his youth, his family said, he had been handsome; but in his latter years he had nothing left to show for it but his eyes. ‘It was, indeed, in the upper part of his face,’ says Mr. Moore, ‘that the spirit of the man chiefly reigned; the dominion of the world and the senses being rather strongly marked out in the lower.’”
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
1554-1587-8
Aubrey’s Lives
of Eminent
Persons.
*
“He was not only an excellent witt, but extremely beautiful; he much resembled his sister but his haire was not red, but a little inclining; viz., a darke amber colour. If I were to find a fault in it, methinkes ’tis not masculine enough; yett he is a person of great courage.... My great-uncle Mr. T. Browne, remembered him, and sayd that he was wont to take his table-booke out of his pocket and write downe his notions as they came into his head, when he was writing his Arcadia (which was never finished by him) as he was hunting on our pleasant plaines.”
The Worthie Sir
Phillip Sidney,
Knight, his
Epitaph.
“A man made out of goodliest mould
As shape in ware were wrought,
Or Picture stoode in stampe of gold