Authority Cited: Sidney
Author name and dates: Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
BKG Bio-tweet: Courtier; extensive European travels; major poet; aggressive politician, soldier; in Holland, shot in leg, died of gangrene
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 735 total Sidney citations in Vol. 1 of the 1755 Dict., about 773 total Sidney citations in Vol. 2 of the 1755 Dict. Seven added Sidney citations were noticed in the 1773 Dict. under accept, angle, apt, attend, azure, bodkin, and fit. The number of Sidney citations were reduced in the 1773 Dict. under impossible, like, plain, and side]
Author name and dates: Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
BKG Bio-tweet: Courtier; extensive European travels; major poet; aggressive politician, soldier; in Holland, shot in leg, died of gangrene
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 735 total Sidney citations in Vol. 1 of the 1755 Dict., about 773 total Sidney citations in Vol. 2 of the 1755 Dict. Seven added Sidney citations were noticed in the 1773 Dict. under accept, angle, apt, attend, azure, bodkin, and fit. The number of Sidney citations were reduced in the 1773 Dict. under impossible, like, plain, and side]
- Arcadia; The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, written by Sir Philippe Sidnei, 1590, London: Printed by Iohn Windet for william Ponsonbie, Anno Domini, OR The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia. Written by Sir Philip Sidney Knight. Now since the first edition augmented and ended, 1593, London : Printed [by John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, Anno Domini, OR The works of the Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, Kt. In prose and verse. In three volumes. Containing, I. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. II. The Defense of Poesy. III. Astrophel and Stella. IV. The Remedy of Love; Sonnets, &c. V. The Lady of May. A Masque. VI. The Life of the Author, 1725, London : printed for E. Taylor, A. Bettesworth, E. Curll, W. Mears, and R. Gosling [BKG Note: this last title may be SJ's source as books i and ii, from which the Sidney quotations appear to be taken are both in the first volume of the set; the 1739 three-volume Dublin edition of the Sidney Works is also a possible quotation source, but it seems less likely that it would be stocked or supplied by the publishers of the Dict.]; abandon; accept (added in 1773 Dict.); angle (added in 1773 Dict.); apt (added in 1773 Dict.); attend (added in 1773 Dict.); azure (added in 1773 Dict.); bodkin (added in 1773 Dict.); fit (added in 1773 Dict.); manyheaded (incorrectly cited as b. iii, should be b. ii); unslain (incorrectly cited as b. iii, should be b. ii) [BKG Note: In the 1755 Dict., the number of citations labeled by book are: Vol 1, b. i = 23, b. ii = 167; Vol. 2, b. i = 60, b. ii = 270, b. iii = 2; the b. iii cites are incorrect (should be b. ii)]
- Astrophel and Stella [BKG Note: indicated as a Sidney quotation source by Freed, but citations not yet located. Any quotes from this title are likely in Sonnet form.]
- Sidney (no work cited); [BKG Note: of the Sidney citations without a book designation (about 1000), those that were checked all appear to be from Arcadia]