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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Էջ xiv
... conversation and written letters afford an invaluable means of testing one's ideas by the ideas of others , if one has command of the me- dium of expression . Command of that medium , and the habit and practice of using it , I xiv Preface.
... conversation and written letters afford an invaluable means of testing one's ideas by the ideas of others , if one has command of the me- dium of expression . Command of that medium , and the habit and practice of using it , I xiv Preface.
Էջ xv
... conversation and business and social letter - writing . Therefore while we are reading essays for the intellectual pleasure that they give , we ought at the same time to be studying the method of each writer in using words , with a ...
... conversation and business and social letter - writing . Therefore while we are reading essays for the intellectual pleasure that they give , we ought at the same time to be studying the method of each writer in using words , with a ...
Էջ xix
... conversation raised to the level of per- manent literature . The addition to the possibil- ities of prose was one of the utmost importance , 1 The reader in looking over the dialogues of Plato will soon perceive that the lay characters ...
... conversation raised to the level of per- manent literature . The addition to the possibil- ities of prose was one of the utmost importance , 1 The reader in looking over the dialogues of Plato will soon perceive that the lay characters ...
Էջ xxi
... conversation . He also picked up and recorded the epigrammatic or witty sayings of others . Realizing that some of these notes of his were excellent of their kind , he published them in the first edition of his " Essays . " In later ...
... conversation . He also picked up and recorded the epigrammatic or witty sayings of others . Realizing that some of these notes of his were excellent of their kind , he published them in the first edition of his " Essays . " In later ...
Էջ xxii
... conversation of the wags and wits at the coffee - houses were com- municated to a much larger circle of friends . Addison , who had been brought up on the English Bible , was quick to see the value of this method of literary composition ...
... conversation of the wags and wits at the coffee - houses were com- municated to a much larger circle of friends . Addison , who had been brought up on the English Bible , was quick to see the value of this method of literary composition ...
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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.