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... matter ; and more after the choiceness of the phrase , and the round and clean composition of the sentence , and the sweet falling of the clauses , and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures , than after the ...
... matter ; and more after the choiceness of the phrase , and the round and clean composition of the sentence , and the sweet falling of the clauses , and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures , than after the ...
Page 9
... matter compelled him to use a good many Latinized technical words , the style on the whole , thanks perhaps to Chaucer's efforts to adapt it to a child of ten , is simple and much more idiomatic than the style of the translation from ...
... matter compelled him to use a good many Latinized technical words , the style on the whole , thanks perhaps to Chaucer's efforts to adapt it to a child of ten , is simple and much more idiomatic than the style of the translation from ...
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... matter . The style is not that of the scholar or the refined artist . Langland probably never sub- mitted himself to the severe discipline in versification which Chaucer's early experiments in ballades and complaints illustrate ...
... matter . The style is not that of the scholar or the refined artist . Langland probably never sub- mitted himself to the severe discipline in versification which Chaucer's early experiments in ballades and complaints illustrate ...
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... matter . On the other hand , Langland is equally free in introducing learned Latin and French into the body of his narrative , not systematically in the manner of the later Macaronic writing , as in Skelton , but apparently as the fancy ...
... matter . On the other hand , Langland is equally free in introducing learned Latin and French into the body of his narrative , not systematically in the manner of the later Macaronic writing , as in Skelton , but apparently as the fancy ...
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... matter and the manner can hardly be questioned , but it is not probable that his attitude in general would be very skeptical . In fact , mixed with the other matters , the book contains a number of Bible stories which can scarcely have ...
... matter and the manner can hardly be questioned , but it is not probable that his attitude in general would be very skeptical . In fact , mixed with the other matters , the book contains a number of Bible stories which can scarcely have ...
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Page 435 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Page x - ... what a province he had undertaken against the Bishop of Rome and the degenerate traditions of the church, and finding his own solitude, being no ways aided by the opinions of his own time, was enforced to awake all antiquity, and to call former times to his...
Page 543 - Learning, that of Henry VII., that of the Essays, being retractate, and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens, which forsake me not. For these modern languages will, at one time or other, play the bankrupts with books : and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad, as God shall give me leave, to recover it with posterity.
Page 136 - The general and perpetual voice of men is as the sentence of God himself. For that which all men have at all times learned, Nature herself must needs have taught; and God being the author of Nature, her voice is but his instrument.
Page 135 - ... creatures, and especially his holy angels. For beholding the face of God, in admiration of so great excellency they all adore him ; and being rapt with the love of his beauty, they cleave inseparably for ever unto him. Desire to resemble him in goodness maketh *> them unweariable and even unsatiable in their longing to do by all means all manner good unto all the creatures of God, but especially unto the children of men...
Page 422 - Nay, madam, he is a doctor; never rack his person, but rack his style: let him have pen, ink, and paper, and help of books, and be enjoined to continue the story where it breaketh off, and I will undertake, by collating the styles, to judge whether he were the author or no...
Page 367 - This say I because I know the virtue so ; and this say I because it may be ever so, or, to say better, because it will be ever so. Read it, then, at your idle times, and the follies your good...
Page x - Martin Luther, conducted no doubt by an higher providence, but in discourse of reason, finding what a province he had undertaken against the bishop of Rome, and the degenerate traditions of the church...
Page 21 - In some place I shall set word for word, and active for active, and passive for passive, a-row right as it standeth, without changing of the order of words. But in some place I must change the order of words, and set active for passive, and again-ward. And in some place I must set a reason for a word, and tell what it meaneth. But for all such changing, the meaning shall stand and not be changed.