English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various Writers, and General Introductions to Each Period, 2. kötetSir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1894 |
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4. oldal
... 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 itself to his fancy . But the promise of Bacon did not endure . The conditions of the time ...
... 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 itself to his fancy . But the promise of Bacon did not endure . The conditions of the time ...
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... follow ; but none the less , in spite of all its irregularities , his prose has left as distinct an impression on our literature as his personal action has upon our constitution . Another strain of English prose has to be taken into ...
... follow ; but none the less , in spite of all its irregularities , his prose has left as distinct an impression on our literature as his personal action has upon our constitution . Another strain of English prose has to be taken into ...
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... follow the practice of writ- ing in Latin , which was kept up among scholars of even later times . This is the one point in which he wisely departed from the example of his master . With the exception of his youthful essay on poetry in ...
... follow the practice of writ- ing in Latin , which was kept up among scholars of even later times . This is the one point in which he wisely departed from the example of his master . With the exception of his youthful essay on poetry in ...
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... follow any fierce under- takers , mingle no matter of doubtful credit with the simplicity of truth , but gently stir the mould about the root of the question , and avoid all digladiations , facility of credit , or superstitious ...
... follow any fierce under- takers , mingle no matter of doubtful credit with the simplicity of truth , but gently stir the mould about the root of the question , and avoid all digladiations , facility of credit , or superstitious ...
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... follow this up with a sort of half - gloss , half - version in English . To a careless reader , or to one quite out of sympathy with Burton's own mood , the method may seem either a cumbrous conglomera- tion , due to lack of taste ...
... follow this up with a sort of half - gloss , half - version in English . To a careless reader , or to one quite out of sympathy with Burton's own mood , the method may seem either a cumbrous conglomera- tion , due to lack of taste ...
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Népszerű szakaszok
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.
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;...
216. oldal - ... that nature should thus dissociate and render men apt to invade and destroy one another; and he may therefore, not trusting to this inference made from the passions, desire perhaps to have the same confirmed by experience.
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...
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.
206. oldal - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
148. oldal - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people...