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 xix
... force into the education of every English - speaking man and woman , that English prose was exalted to a position that mere prose never could have held in Greece or Rome . It would not be difficult to trace all our modern prose poetry ...
... force into the education of every English - speaking man and woman , that English prose was exalted to a position that mere prose never could have held in Greece or Rome . It would not be difficult to trace all our modern prose poetry ...
Էջ xxiv
... forces in person , hov he must have wished that the great Dean were upon his side ! We may see the influence of Swift in Carlyle and also in the later work of Ruskin ( " Fors Clavigera " ) . But in his field of devilish satire Swift ...
... forces in person , hov he must have wished that the great Dean were upon his side ! We may see the influence of Swift in Carlyle and also in the later work of Ruskin ( " Fors Clavigera " ) . But in his field of devilish satire Swift ...
Էջ xli
... force it even when the result is totally destruc- tive of harmony . Ruskin in his use of cadence has precisely the same fault , for it becomes a man- nerism with him , and finally wearies the reader past all endurance . This excess we ...
... force it even when the result is totally destruc- tive of harmony . Ruskin in his use of cadence has precisely the same fault , for it becomes a man- nerism with him , and finally wearies the reader past all endurance . This excess we ...
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... force of his life , so literature advances from the period when poetry flourishes above prose because the self - restraint and self - mastery of the writer cannot be depended upon and mechanical restraint is necessarily employed , to ...
... force of his life , so literature advances from the period when poetry flourishes above prose because the self - restraint and self - mastery of the writer cannot be depended upon and mechanical restraint is necessarily employed , to ...
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... force and edge of those formidable inquirers from canvassing and reasoning upon such delicate points . They have at length fixed upon one , which will require some time as well as cost to per- fect . Meanwhile , the danger hourly ...
... force and edge of those formidable inquirers from canvassing and reasoning upon such delicate points . They have at length fixed upon one , which will require some time as well as cost to per- fect . Meanwhile , the danger hourly ...
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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 324 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
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 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins, shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head, and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences...
Էջ 244 - On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.
Էջ 283 - The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world. Enthusiasm had made them stoics, had cleared their minds from every vulgar passion and prejudice, and raised them above the influence of danger and of corruption. It sometimes...
Էջ 16 - I will conclude this first fruit of friendship, which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves; for there is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
Էջ 58 - Some of them could not refrain from tears at the sight of their old master ; every one of them pressed forward to do something for him, and seemed discouraged if they were not employed. At the same time the good old knight, with a mixture of the father and the master of the family, tempered the inquiries after his own affairs with several kind questions relating to themselves. This humanity and...
Էջ 259 - But now we are a mob. Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is his genius admonished to stay at home, to put itself in communication with the internal ocean, but it goes abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of men. We must go alone. Isolation must precede true society. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.