English Prose: Selections, 2. kötetSir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1894 |
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1 - 5 találat összesen 88 találatból.
4. oldal
... thought with such perfection that ( as is remarked in the introduction to the extracts which follow ) it seems as if his aphorisms , and the thoughts that flower about them , often grew out of the aptness of a phrase that has suggested ...
... thought with such perfection that ( as is remarked in the introduction to the extracts which follow ) it seems as if his aphorisms , and the thoughts that flower about them , often grew out of the aptness of a phrase that has suggested ...
10. oldal
... thought should have a felicity of its own , independent of its relation to the others ; and the author did not mar this by trying to force them into a sequence such as they might have had if one had risen out of another in a continuous ...
... thought should have a felicity of its own , independent of its relation to the others ; and the author did not mar this by trying to force them into a sequence such as they might have had if one had risen out of another in a continuous ...
16. oldal
... thoughts do end with them- selves , and account future times impertinences . Nay , there are some other that account ... thought so much the richer . For perhaps they have heard some talk , such an one is a great rich man , and another ...
... thoughts do end with them- selves , and account future times impertinences . Nay , there are some other that account ... thought so much the richer . For perhaps they have heard some talk , such an one is a great rich man , and another ...
20. oldal
... thought fit . The stairs likewise to the upper rooms , let them be upon a fair open newel , and finely railed in with images of wood , cast into a brass colour ; and a very fair landing - place at the top . But this to be , if you do ...
... thought fit . The stairs likewise to the upper rooms , let them be upon a fair open newel , and finely railed in with images of wood , cast into a brass colour ; and a very fair landing - place at the top . But this to be , if you do ...
29. oldal
... thoughts . There is to this day a merry tale : that his monkey ( set on as it was thought by one of his chamber ) tore his principal note - book all to pieces , when by chance it lay forth ; ? whereat the court , which liked not those ...
... thoughts . There is to this day a merry tale : that his monkey ( set on as it was thought by one of his chamber ) tore his principal note - book all to pieces , when by chance it lay forth ; ? whereat the court , which liked not those ...
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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...
12. oldal - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
350. oldal - I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you. I have seen my dear wife pass twice by me through this room with her hair hanging about her shoulders and a dead child in her arms. This I have seen since I saw you.
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.
15. oldal - Bowling is good for the stone and reins ; shooting for the lungs and breast ; gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
402. oldal - Falkland ; a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war than that single loss, it must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.
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...
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.
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.
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.]" It was not a time to dispute; and his affection to the church had never been suspected.