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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... least of all suited for a style so defiant of all rule and fashion as that of Swift himself . Swift's proposal was due to his conviction that the loss of simplicity was owing to the absence of any controlling force , and such a force ...
... least of all suited for a style so defiant of all rule and fashion as that of Swift himself . Swift's proposal was due to his conviction that the loss of simplicity was owing to the absence of any controlling force , and such a force ...
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... least equal to Bacon's " Counsels , Civil and Moral " ; without the saving grace of wit in expression , Bacon's wisdom might have sunk like his kinsman's . And yet he could easily have defended himself from a charge of not " recking his ...
... least equal to Bacon's " Counsels , Civil and Moral " ; without the saving grace of wit in expression , Bacon's wisdom might have sunk like his kinsman's . And yet he could easily have defended himself from a charge of not " recking his ...
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... least will to contribute when they have most cause ; for when there is noise or expectation of wars , then is always the deadest time for moneys , in regard every man restraineth and holdeth fast his means for his own comfort and ...
... least will to contribute when they have most cause ; for when there is noise or expectation of wars , then is always the deadest time for moneys , in regard every man restraineth and holdeth fast his means for his own comfort and ...
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... least upon princes . But understand me ( my lord ) I shall not charge you this day with any disloyalty ; only I lay this for a foundation , that there was a great communication of secrets between you and Overbury , and that it had ...
... least upon princes . But understand me ( my lord ) I shall not charge you this day with any disloyalty ; only I lay this for a foundation , that there was a great communication of secrets between you and Overbury , and that it had ...
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... least some light effluxions from spirit to spirit , when men are in presence one with another , as well as from body to body . It hath been observed that old men who have loved young company and been conversant continually with them ...
... least some light effluxions from spirit to spirit , when men are in presence one with another , as well as from body to body . It hath been observed that old men who have loved young company and been conversant continually with them ...
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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...