English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various Writers, and General Introductions to Each Period, Bind 2Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1894 |
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... sense of greater security and restfulness than in any that had gone before . The fretfulness of controversy , the restlessness of individualism , the perpetual pursuit of intricacy , and the ceaseless desire to startle the reader , all ...
... sense of greater security and restfulness than in any that had gone before . The fretfulness of controversy , the restlessness of individualism , the perpetual pursuit of intricacy , and the ceaseless desire to startle the reader , all ...
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... sense of the word , in which it means intellect as well as expression . The sagacity of the underlying thought on which we rest when we apprehend the meaning of his words is as potent an element in our impression of delight as the ...
... sense of the word , in which it means intellect as well as expression . The sagacity of the underlying thought on which we rest when we apprehend the meaning of his words is as potent an element in our impression of delight as the ...
Side 10
... sense of " expression , " but still as including both diction and method , we find that Bacon had more than one style . Essentially a man of calculation and con- trivance , he adapted his style to his purposes . His Essays have always ...
... sense of " expression , " but still as including both diction and method , we find that Bacon had more than one style . Essentially a man of calculation and con- trivance , he adapted his style to his purposes . His Essays have always ...
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... sense of the necessity of keeping to a point saves him from becoming tedious . Thus his influence on expository prose told in the direction of what Jonson calls neatness and " prestness , " and against superfluous finicking and ...
... sense of the necessity of keeping to a point saves him from becoming tedious . Thus his influence on expository prose told in the direction of what Jonson calls neatness and " prestness , " and against superfluous finicking and ...
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... sense and to avoid circuit of speech , without regard to the pureness , pleasantness , and ( as I may call it ) lawfulness of the phrase or word . And again , because the great labour then was with the people ( of whom the Pharisees ...
... sense and to avoid circuit of speech , without regard to the pureness , pleasantness , and ( as I may call it ) lawfulness of the phrase or word . And again , because the great labour then was with the people ( of whom the Pharisees ...
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Almindelige termer og sætninger
Æsop affection amongst ancient Areopagitica authority Basilikon Doron believe Ben Jonson better Bishop body called cause Christ Christian Church Church of England common commonwealth conscience court death delight Democritic desire discourse divine doth doubt Earl earth edition England English Episcopacy Essays Euphuism eyes faith favour fear fortune friends GEORGE SAINTSBURY give hand happy hath heaven Holy honour Hudibras humour Jeremy Taylor judgment justice Kenelm Digby king king's kingdom Latin learning less liberty literary live Long Parliament Lord majesty matter means Milton mind nature never opinion Overbury Owthorpe parliament peace person present prince prose Puritan Queen reason Religio Medici religion Scotland Scripture sermons Smectymnuus soul speak spirit style thee Theophrastus things thou thought tion true truth unto verse virtue wherein whereof whole words writings
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Side 470 - 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...
Side 536 - 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.
Side 344 - 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;...
Side 216 - ... 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.
Side 538 - 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.
Side 215 - 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.
Side 328 - 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...
Side 482 - 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.
Side 206 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Side 148 - 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...