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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... characters are mere figures of straw set up for rhetorical purposes . Moreover , Socrates talked of philosophic ideas , while Christ appeared more as the friend offering sympathy , consolation , and advice . and the New Testament formed ...
... characters are mere figures of straw set up for rhetorical purposes . Moreover , Socrates talked of philosophic ideas , while Christ appeared more as the friend offering sympathy , consolation , and advice . and the New Testament formed ...
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... natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man hath some- what of the savage beast ; but it is most untrue that it should have any character at all of the divine nature , except it proceed , not out of a Bacon II.
... natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man hath some- what of the savage beast ; but it is most untrue that it should have any character at all of the divine nature , except it proceed , not out of a Bacon II.
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... characters . There is one point , wherein I think we dedicators would do well to change our measures ; I mean , instead of running on so far upon the praise of our patrons ' liberality , to spend a word or two in admir- ing their ...
... characters . There is one point , wherein I think we dedicators would do well to change our measures ; I mean , instead of running on so far upon the praise of our patrons ' liberality , to spend a word or two in admir- ing their ...
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... character of the present set of wits in our nation : their persons I shall describe particularly and at length , their genius and understandings in miniature . In the meantime , I do here make bold to present Your Highness with a ...
... character of the present set of wits in our nation : their persons I shall describe particularly and at length , their genius and understandings in miniature . In the meantime , I do here make bold to present Your Highness with a ...
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... character and quality of the gentleman who sent them ; which I found to be as follows . Will Wimble is younger brother to a baronet , and de- scended of the ancient family of the Wimbles . He is now between forty and fifty ; but being ...
... character and quality of the gentleman who sent them ; which I found to be as follows . Will Wimble is younger brother to a baronet , and de- scended of the ancient family of the Wimbles . He is now between forty and fifty ; but being ...
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A. C. McCLURG action admire beauty better body called character Charles Lamb church conversation critic culture Cyclops darkness disease divine dreams earth English essay expression Faith father feel force Frederic Harrison Friedrich Schlegel genius give hand heard heart heaven ideas intellectual Jacobinism Johnson labour lady less Levana literary literature live look machinery man's manner matter Matthew Arnold means merely mind moral mystery ness never night observe Oxford movement passion perfection person Philistines philosophy pleasure poet poetry present prose prose poetry Protestantism Puritans Pyrrhonism Quincey reader reason religion Ruskin Sainte-Beuve seems sense Sir Roger society soul speak spirit style Suspiria de Profundis sweetness and light things thou thought tion true truth Uncon virtue waves whist whole wholly word writer young
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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.