Seventeenth Century ProseElizabeth Lee Macmillan & Company, 1907 - 85 oldal |
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vii. oldal
... things . It does , however , so happen that the authors selected for this volume , with one exception , 1 all lived and worked and died within the seventeenth century . Before the seventeenth century English Literature has little to ...
... things . It does , however , so happen that the authors selected for this volume , with one exception , 1 all lived and worked and died within the seventeenth century . Before the seventeenth century English Literature has little to ...
viii. oldal
... things to say , and they used prose because they knew that what they had to say could only be expressed in prose . It was their care to make the best possible use , so far as their individual capability allowed , of the instrument of ...
... things to say , and they used prose because they knew that what they had to say could only be expressed in prose . It was their care to make the best possible use , so far as their individual capability allowed , of the instrument of ...
xi. oldal
... thing in a woman , a keen sense of humour . The letters were found by chance about twenty years ago , and were first printed in 1888 . The newspaper which plays so large a part in modern life took its rise in the seventeenth century ...
... thing in a woman , a keen sense of humour . The letters were found by chance about twenty years ago , and were first printed in 1888 . The newspaper which plays so large a part in modern life took its rise in the seventeenth century ...
4. oldal
... things , but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are ; nay , they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them . I know they are as ...
... things , but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are ; nay , they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them . I know they are as ...
5. oldal
... things well worth the adding , come into his head after licensing , while the book is yet under the press , which not seldom happens to the best and diligentest writers ; and that perhaps a dozen times in one book . The printer dares ...
... things well worth the adding , come into his head after licensing , while the book is yet under the press , which not seldom happens to the best and diligentest writers ; and that perhaps a dozen times in one book . The printer dares ...
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ABRAHAM COWLEY ancient Angler Baucis and Philemon better BIOGRAPHICAL Bunyan called Canterbury Tales Chaucer Christian Chub civil Clifton College College Columella counsel Cowley CRITICAL death delight discourse dogs Dryden dungeon Edited England English language English literature English prose Essay father fish friends Giant Despair Greek hast hath holy hope humour HUNTSMAN husbandman J. H. FOWLER Jeremy Taylor JOHN DRYDEN kill King language Latin learned liberty literary live London Lord master memories Milton nature never oblivion Otter Ovid peace persons philosopher piety Pilgrim's Progress PISCATOR poems poet poetry pray prayer reason Reformation religion Roman sense sentences seventeenth century short parliament Sir Thomas Browne soul spirit style Sweetlips tell things THOMAS FULLER thou thoughts tion translated unto VENATOR verse Virgil vocabulary WALTON Westminster School whereof wife words writing written wrote
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9. oldal - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions ; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
8. oldal - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors; a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to.
11. oldal - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
6. oldal - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
60. oldal - Despair; and it was in his grounds they now were sleeping: wherefore he, getting up in the morning early, and walking up and down in his fields, caught Christian and Hopeful asleep in his grounds. Then with a grim and surly voice he bid them awake, and asked them whence they were and what they did in his grounds. They told him they were pilgrims and that they had lost their way. Then said the giant, You have this night trespassed on me by trampling in and lying on my grounds, and therefore you must...
68. oldal - Spenser more than once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfused into his body, and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease.
6. oldal - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
70. oldal - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him.
70. oldal - The Cock and the Fox, which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part, since I can remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly his. Both of them understood the manners, under which name I comprehend the passions, and, in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons, and their very habits; for an example, I see Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before me, as if some ancient painter had drawn them; and all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales...
64. oldal - Despair, who, hastily rising to pursue his prisoners, felt his limbs to fail, for his fits took him again, so that he could by no means go after them.