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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... style , out of the double storehouses at their disposal . The poets and the drama- tists of the age of Elizabeth completed their work quickly , and attained , by leaps and bounds , to the consummate perfection of their diction . But ...
... style , out of the double storehouses at their disposal . The poets and the drama- tists of the age of Elizabeth completed their work quickly , and attained , by leaps and bounds , to the consummate perfection of their diction . But ...
3. oldal
... style of their own . It is quite possible to conceive that a new and stronger effort of the glory and the rapture of the Elizabethans might have done much to enrich us with a prose style as consummate and as com- manding as that of ...
... style of their own . It is quite possible to conceive that a new and stronger effort of the glory and the rapture of the Elizabethans might have done much to enrich us with a prose style as consummate and as com- manding as that of ...
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... style with his theme ; and the expression fits his 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 ...
... style with his theme ; and the expression fits his 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 ...
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... style must , in order to attain literary perfection , set before itself a certain standard of grace , and not be too timid of formality , Euphuism was right ; and we are the richer for the efforts of the Euphuists . The fashion lingered ...
... style must , in order to attain literary perfection , set before itself a certain standard of grace , and not be too timid of formality , Euphuism was right ; and we are the richer for the efforts of the Euphuists . The fashion lingered ...
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... style seems to be everything , and a writer never loses sight of the formal dignity of address befitting his call- ing , as in Sir Thomas Browne or Sir Kenelm Digby , or Drum- mond . Sometimes , again , style seems to be altogether ...
... style seems to be everything , and a writer never loses sight of the formal dignity of address befitting his call- ing , as in Sir Thomas Browne or Sir Kenelm Digby , or Drum- mond . Sometimes , again , style seems to be altogether ...
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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...