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 xvii
... less degree long after the merely mechanical method of publication had been wholly changed . Thus epic poetry was originally the chanted narrative of the wandering minstrel , telling of heroic deeds and strange adventures more or less ...
... less degree long after the merely mechanical method of publication had been wholly changed . Thus epic poetry was originally the chanted narrative of the wandering minstrel , telling of heroic deeds and strange adventures more or less ...
Էջ xxxv
... less and less every year , till we can fancy that at last only their short lyrics will survive , Ruskin , the prose poet , not only got himself extensively read in his own day , but continues to be read side by side with the popular ...
... less and less every year , till we can fancy that at last only their short lyrics will survive , Ruskin , the prose poet , not only got himself extensively read in his own day , but continues to be read side by side with the popular ...
Էջ xlii
... less confined and liable to a lashing from his master's whip if he goes wrong . Or to drop the figure , poetry offers the advantage of a me- chanical restraint , while prose must depend upon the writer's own restraint of his feelings by ...
... less confined and liable to a lashing from his master's whip if he goes wrong . Or to drop the figure , poetry offers the advantage of a me- chanical restraint , while prose must depend upon the writer's own restraint of his feelings by ...
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Sherwin Cody. poetry can be produced only by a more or less barbarous age.1 It is the natural exalted lan- guage of all rude peoples . As civilization ad- vances , its power seems to be refined away . Some have suspected that the race ...
Sherwin Cody. poetry can be produced only by a more or less barbarous age.1 It is the natural exalted lan- guage of all rude peoples . As civilization ad- vances , its power seems to be refined away . Some have suspected that the race ...
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... less important arguments and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are like com- mon distilled waters , flashy 2 things . Reading maketh a full man , conference a ready man , and writing an exact man . And therefore if a man ...
... less important arguments and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are like com- mon distilled waters , flashy 2 things . Reading maketh a full man , conference a ready man , and writing an exact man . And therefore if a man ...
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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.