English Prose: Selections, Հատոր 2Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1894 This collection shows the growth and development of English prose by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers. |
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... order of the whole . It is when we read these works of his that we understand the full force of Ben Jonson's famous eulogium . “ He was full of gravity in his speaking . His language , when he could spare FRANCIS BACON I I.
... order of the whole . It is when we read these works of his that we understand the full force of Ben Jonson's famous eulogium . “ He was full of gravity in his speaking . His language , when he could spare FRANCIS BACON I I.
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Selections Sir Henry Craik. his speaking . His language , when he could spare or pass by a jest , was nobly censorious . No man ever spoke more neatly , more prestly , more weightily , or suffered less emptiness , less idleness in what ...
Selections Sir Henry Craik. his speaking . His language , when he could spare or pass by a jest , was nobly censorious . No man ever spoke more neatly , more prestly , more weightily , or suffered less emptiness , less idleness in what ...
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... speak of vain - glory , I mean not of that property that Tacitus doth attribute to Mucianus ; Omnium , quæ dixerat feceratque , arte quâdem ostentator [ a man that had a kind of art of setting forth to advantage all that he had said or ...
... speak of vain - glory , I mean not of that property that Tacitus doth attribute to Mucianus ; Omnium , quæ dixerat feceratque , arte quâdem ostentator [ a man that had a kind of art of setting forth to advantage all that he had said or ...
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... speak not of many more ; want of water ; want of wood , shade , and shelter ; want of fruitfulness , and mixture of grounds of several natures : want of prospect ; want of level grounds ; want of places at some near distance for sports ...
... speak not of many more ; want of water ; want of wood , shade , and shelter ; want of fruitfulness , and mixture of grounds of several natures : want of prospect ; want of level grounds ; want of places at some near distance for sports ...
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... speak plainly ) had little that was solid for religion or moral virtue , but was a man possessed with ambition and vain - glory , was loth to have any partners in the favour of my Lord of Somerset , and especially not the house of the ...
... speak plainly ) had little that was solid for religion or moral virtue , but was a man possessed with ambition and vain - glory , was loth to have any partners in the favour of my Lord of Somerset , and especially not the house of the ...
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Էջ 452 - I was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Էջ 310 - Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments. In vain we hope to be known by open and visible conservatories, when to be unknown was the means of their continuation, and obscurity their protection.
Էջ 518 - I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Էջ x - Yea, but he hath a great charge of children; as if it were an abatement to his riches. But the most ordinary cause of a single life, is liberty, especially in certain selfpleasing and humorous minds, which are so sensible of every restraint, as they will go near to think their girdles and garters, to be bonds and shackles.
Էջ 520 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Էջ 325 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased.
Էջ 197 - Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same is consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withall.
Էջ 310 - Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests ; what prince can promise such diuturnity unto his relics, or might not gladly say, " Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim.
Էջ 382 - I am persuaded his power and interest, at that time, was greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time ; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them.
Էջ 464 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.