English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various Writers, and General Introductions to Each Period, 3. kötetSir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1894 |
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... taken any prominent part in the church life of the period . According to Burnet he was " a much better divine than bishop " ; but Burnet's evidence must be accepted with caution , for the two men differed widely from one another , not ...
... taken any prominent part in the church life of the period . According to Burnet he was " a much better divine than bishop " ; but Burnet's evidence must be accepted with caution , for the two men differed widely from one another , not ...
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... taken fire and attacked the White Tower , where the magazine of powder lay , would undoubtedly not only have beaten down and destroyed all the bridge , but sunk and torn the vessels in the river , and rendered the demolition beyond all ...
... taken fire and attacked the White Tower , where the magazine of powder lay , would undoubtedly not only have beaten down and destroyed all the bridge , but sunk and torn the vessels in the river , and rendered the demolition beyond all ...
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... taken as much money from privateers as would have laden her ; and that more such being built did in a year or two scour the Channel from those of Dunkirk and others which had exceedingly infested it . He added that it would be the best ...
... taken as much money from privateers as would have laden her ; and that more such being built did in a year or two scour the Channel from those of Dunkirk and others which had exceedingly infested it . He added that it would be the best ...
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... taken so many things that rather did it harm than good ) only longed for some moderation , and as soon as it had tasted this , seemed to itself sensibly to recover ; when their representatives in Parliament had been of ANDREW MARVELL 37.
... taken so many things that rather did it harm than good ) only longed for some moderation , and as soon as it had tasted this , seemed to itself sensibly to recover ; when their representatives in Parliament had been of ANDREW MARVELL 37.
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... taken while Belshazzar lay drunk amongst his whores . The empire was transported to the Persians and Grecians by the valour of Cyrus , Alexander , and the brave armies that followed them . Histories furnish us with innumerable examples ...
... taken while Belshazzar lay drunk amongst his whores . The empire was transported to the Persians and Grecians by the valour of Cyrus , Alexander , and the brave armies that followed them . Histories furnish us with innumerable examples ...
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Népszerű szakaszok
152. oldal - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
322. oldal - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? 275 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
161. oldal - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
526. oldal - Alas ! ' said I, ' man was made in vain ; how is he given away to misery and mortality, tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! ' " The genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. ' Look no more,' said he, ' on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
425. oldal - In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine ; When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six, It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, 'Pox take him and his wit!
282. oldal - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people ; saying with a loud voice ; Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters.
525. oldal - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
224. oldal - Everybody endeavouring to remove their goods, and flinging into the river or bringing them into lighters that lay off; poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them, and then running into boats, or clambering from one pair of stairs by the water-side to another.
542. oldal - Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me : for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
165. oldal - What Virgil wrote in the vigour of his age, in plenty and at ease, I have undertaken to translate in my declining years; struggling with wants, oppressed with sickness, curbed in my genius, liable to be misconstrued in all I write...