A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of English Prose StyleSherwin Cody A.C. McClurg, 1903 - 415 էջ |
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... his powers in that line , and especially as a wit after the Elizabethan manner , by a systematic study of " apophthegms " ( as he called them ) . He stocked himself with wit in advance , so to speak , XX General Introduction.
... his powers in that line , and especially as a wit after the Elizabethan manner , by a systematic study of " apophthegms " ( as he called them ) . He stocked himself with wit in advance , so to speak , XX General Introduction.
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... called into activity . In other words , the quickest and surest way to master Lamb's style critically is to try to write like Lamb yourself , and to keep at your imitative efforts till you acquire some sort of skill . In conclusion , I ...
... called into activity . In other words , the quickest and surest way to master Lamb's style critically is to try to write like Lamb yourself , and to keep at your imitative efforts till you acquire some sort of skill . In conclusion , I ...
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... of restraint as the vital defect of all so - called " prose poetry . " Prose , he says , ought to be sane , and he seems to think that it is C quite impossible that it should be sane unless it restricts General Introduction xxxiii.
... of restraint as the vital defect of all so - called " prose poetry . " Prose , he says , ought to be sane , and he seems to think that it is C quite impossible that it should be sane unless it restricts General Introduction xxxiii.
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... called " prose poetry , " whereas the minor poet is eminently harmless . The fact is , while any one can write prose , the complete mastery of it is so difficult that it is wholly beyond the powers of any one man , unless he were to ...
... called " prose poetry , " whereas the minor poet is eminently harmless . The fact is , while any one can write prose , the complete mastery of it is so difficult that it is wholly beyond the powers of any one man , unless he were to ...
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... called " Of Studies . " The book as a whole , however , was popular , and in 1612 a new edition was pub- lished , in which nearly all the original essays were enlarged and the disjointed notes were more closely welded together . Many ...
... called " Of Studies . " The book as a whole , however , was popular , and in 1612 a new edition was pub- lished , in which nearly all the original essays were enlarged and the disjointed notes were more closely welded together . Many ...
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Էջ 7 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Էջ 240 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Էջ 8 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Էջ 12 - Magna civitas, magna solitudo ; " because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighborhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness...
Էջ 8 - Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body, may have appropriate exercises.
Էջ 246 - It is easy' in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Էջ 249 - Why drag about this corpse of your memory lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?
Էջ 247 - The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.
Էջ 13 - ... no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
Էջ 284 - Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.