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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... the arm that wielded it , and which he left with no sharpness added to its temper , no new polish to its surface , no new facility in its contrivance . On the whole the elements of greatest hopefulness for English 6 ENGLISH PROSE.
... the arm that wielded it , and which he left with no sharpness added to its temper , no new polish to its surface , no new facility in its contrivance . On the whole the elements of greatest hopefulness for English 6 ENGLISH PROSE.
Side 7
... whole the elements of greatest hopefulness for English prose - its earnestness , its dignity , its conscious grace - were perhaps best summed up , in that age , in Jeremy Taylor : and to him more than to any other may be ascribed the ...
... whole the elements of greatest hopefulness for English prose - its earnestness , its dignity , its conscious grace - were perhaps best summed up , in that age , in Jeremy Taylor : and to him more than to any other may be ascribed the ...
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... the luminous order of the whole . It is when we read these works of his that we understand the full force of Ben Jonson's famous eulogium . " He was full of gravity in his speaking . His language , when he could spare FRANCIS BACON II.
... the luminous order of the whole . It is when we read these works of his that we understand the full force of Ben Jonson's famous eulogium . " He was full of gravity in his speaking . His language , when he could spare FRANCIS BACON II.
Side 12
... . Thus , on the whole , Bacon's prose helped the tendency to avoid cumbrous and involved structure , the tendency that was finally confirmed by Dryden . WILLIAM MINTO . 1 LETTER TO LORD BURGHLEY IN 1591 MY LORD - 12 ENGLISH PROSE.
... . Thus , on the whole , Bacon's prose helped the tendency to avoid cumbrous and involved structure , the tendency that was finally confirmed by Dryden . WILLIAM MINTO . 1 LETTER TO LORD BURGHLEY IN 1591 MY LORD - 12 ENGLISH PROSE.
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... whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight . Here therefore is the first distemper of learning , when men study words and not matter : whereof though I have represented an example of late times , yet ...
... whole inclination and bent of those times was rather towards copie than weight . Here therefore is the first distemper of learning , when men study words and not matter : whereof though I have represented an example of late times , yet ...
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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...