English Prose: From the sixteenth century to the restorationSir Henry Craik Macmillan, 1913 |
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10. oldal
... happy anecdotes and quotations at each revision . It was a natural incident of this " dispersed " way of writing that the expression of each thought should have a felicity of its own , independent of its relation to the others ; and the ...
... happy anecdotes and quotations at each revision . It was a natural incident of this " dispersed " way of writing that the expression of each thought should have a felicity of its own , independent of its relation to the others ; and the ...
11. oldal
... happy phrase or an apposite figure that moved him to take out his tablets and set his thoughts down , so it is really the choiceness of phrase and figure that has kept his wisdom from perishing . In weight of matter , and depth of ...
... happy phrase or an apposite figure that moved him to take out his tablets and set his thoughts down , so it is really the choiceness of phrase and figure that has kept his wisdom from perishing . In weight of matter , and depth of ...
52. oldal
... happy wishes . Now , if ever any person had either the gift or the style to win the hearts of people , it was this queen ; and if ever she did express the same , it was at that present , in coupling mildness with majesty as she did ...
... happy wishes . Now , if ever any person had either the gift or the style to win the hearts of people , it was this queen ; and if ever she did express the same , it was at that present , in coupling mildness with majesty as she did ...
109. oldal
... Happy Milkmaid , a sincere appreciation of virtue ; but , as a rule , Overbury's style is more serviceable in satire . Only a small proportion of Overbury's sketches are " characters " in the Theophrastian sense . Seven - eighths of ...
... Happy Milkmaid , a sincere appreciation of virtue ; but , as a rule , Overbury's style is more serviceable in satire . Only a small proportion of Overbury's sketches are " characters " in the Theophrastian sense . Seven - eighths of ...
129. oldal
... happy union of love , all well governed families and cities are combined , the heavens annexed , and divine souls complicated , the world itself composed , and all that is in it conjoined in God , and reduced to one . This love causeth ...
... happy union of love , all well governed families and cities are combined , the heavens annexed , and divine souls complicated , the world itself composed , and all that is in it conjoined in God , and reduced to one . This love causeth ...
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Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
English Prose, Vol. 1: Selections; With Critical Introductions by Various ... Henry Craik Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2015 |
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470. oldal - I was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
536. oldal - I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
429. oldal - I have eaten his bread, and served him near thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him, and choose rather to lose my life (which I am sure I shall do) to preserve and defend those things, which are against my conscience to preserve and defend. For I will deal freely with you, I have no reverence for the Bishops for whom this quarrel subsists.
344. oldal - Doubt not, therefore, sir, but that angling is an art, and an art worth your learning. The question is rather, whether you be capable of learning it ? for angling is somewhat like poetry, — men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice; but he that hopes to be a good angler must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself;...
538. oldal - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
215. oldal - Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same is consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withall.
328. oldal - Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
346. oldal - ... which broke their waves, and turned them into foam : and sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs, some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun ; and saw others craving comfort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams.
400. oldal - I am persuaded his power and interest, at that time, was greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time ; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them.
482. oldal - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.