English Prose: From the sixteenth century to the restorationSir Henry Craik Macmillan, 1913 |
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18. oldal
... received his due at the second hand . Neither had the fame of Cicero , Seneca , Plinius Secundus , borne her age so well , if it had not been joined with some vanity in themselves ; like unto varnish , that makes ceilings not only shine ...
... received his due at the second hand . Neither had the fame of Cicero , Seneca , Plinius Secundus , borne her age so well , if it had not been joined with some vanity in themselves ; like unto varnish , that makes ceilings not only shine ...
26. oldal
... received similitude of the spleen , which never swelleth but when the rest of the body pineth and abateth . And lastly , it cannot be that any wealth should leave a second overplus for the public that doth not first leave an overplus to ...
... received similitude of the spleen , which never swelleth but when the rest of the body pineth and abateth . And lastly , it cannot be that any wealth should leave a second overplus for the public that doth not first leave an overplus to ...
28. oldal
... received from their ambassadors and agents here ; which were attending the court in great number ; whom he did not only content with courtesy , reward , and private- ness ; but ( upon such conferences , as passed with them ) put them in ...
... received from their ambassadors and agents here ; which were attending the court in great number ; whom he did not only content with courtesy , reward , and private- ness ; but ( upon such conferences , as passed with them ) put them in ...
40. oldal
... received still , even in vulgar opinion . There are conceits that some men , that are of an ill and melancholy nature , do incline the company into which they come to be sad and ill - disposed ; and contrariwise , that others , that are ...
... received still , even in vulgar opinion . There are conceits that some men , that are of an ill and melancholy nature , do incline the company into which they come to be sad and ill - disposed ; and contrariwise , that others , that are ...
51. oldal
... received , all truths suspected , divers tales believed , many improbable conjectures hatched and nourished . Invasion of strangers , civil dissension , the doubtful disposition of the succeeding prince , were cast in every man's ...
... received , all truths suspected , divers tales believed , many improbable conjectures hatched and nourished . Invasion of strangers , civil dissension , the doubtful disposition of the succeeding prince , were cast in every man's ...
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Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
English Prose, Vol. 1: Selections; With Critical Introductions by Various ... Henry Craik Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2015 |
English Prose: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various ..., 1. kötet Henry Sir 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.