Selected Writings
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: September 13, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780415942324
Subjects: Literature: Texts; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; General; Literary Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: You will probably be familiar, at least in outline, with the following account of how Philip Sidney left the battlefield at Zutphen, having received what was to prove a fatal wound, his leg shattered by a musket ball, being thirsty with excess of bleeding, he called for drink, which was presently brought to him; but as he was putting the bottle to his mouth, he saw a poor soldier carried along who had eaten his last at the same feast, ghastly casting up his eyes at the bottle.