English Prose: Selections, Volume 1Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1893 - Literary Collections This collection shows the growth and development of English prose by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers. |
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... command , and this in the tenth century was singular and exceptional among the vernacular tongues of the North and West . In so far as the intellectual problem for the early English prose writers was the reproduction of Latin learning ...
... command , and this in the tenth century was singular and exceptional among the vernacular tongues of the North and West . In so far as the intellectual problem for the early English prose writers was the reproduction of Latin learning ...
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... command of rhythm than in the Lancelot or the Tristan . They are even throughout , one page very much like another in general character : Malory has splendid passages to which he rises , and from which he falls back into the even tenour ...
... command of rhythm than in the Lancelot or the Tristan . They are even throughout , one page very much like another in general character : Malory has splendid passages to which he rises , and from which he falls back into the even tenour ...
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... command as thou art to me lief and dear , spare not , but throw it in . Then Sir Bedivere returned again , and took the sword in his hand ; and then him thought sin and shame to throw away that noble sword ; and so eft he hid the sword ...
... command as thou art to me lief and dear , spare not , but throw it in . Then Sir Bedivere returned again , and took the sword in his hand ; and then him thought sin and shame to throw away that noble sword ; and so eft he hid the sword ...
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... command thee on God's behalf , that thou forsake my company , and to thy kingdom thou turn again and keep well thy realm from war and wrack . For as well as I have loved thee , mine heart will not serve me to see thee ; for through thee ...
... command thee on God's behalf , that thou forsake my company , and to thy kingdom thou turn again and keep well thy realm from war and wrack . For as well as I have loved thee , mine heart will not serve me to see thee ; for through thee ...
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... command- ment and counsel of the wise man to eschew sloth and idleness , which is mother and nourisher of vices , and ought to put myself unto virtuous occupation and business , then I , having no great charge of occupation , following ...
... command- ment and counsel of the wise man to eschew sloth and idleness , which is mother and nourisher of vices , and ought to put myself unto virtuous occupation and business , then I , having no great charge of occupation , following ...
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Arthur Astrolabe Bible body called cause Chaucer Christ Chronicle Church cleped commanded court death delight desire divers doth Duke enemies England English prose Euphues Euphuism faith father French Gawaine give God's grace hand hath heart heaven Henry Henry VIII holy honour John king king Arthur king's knight labour lady land Latin learning literary literature live London lord Lord Berners Lord Chamberlain manner marvellous matter mercy mind nature never noble Parson's Tale Philemon Holland pleasure Plutarch poets poor pray prince Queen quoth realm reason religion rich Saint saith Scotland Scripture servants shewed Sir Bedivere Sir Launcelot Sir Lucan Sir Mordred Sir Philip Sidney sith soul speak style sword thee thereof things thou thought took translation true truth unto virtue Wherefore wherein wise words writings
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Page 485 - And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth ; and the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel...
Page 468 - But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was fair as the morning and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements...
Page 487 - And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
Page 162 - I, your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and . „ swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities.
Page 419 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Page 563 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 162 - For look in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest, and therefore dearest wool, there noblemen and gentlemen : yea, and certain Abbots, holy men, no doubt, not contenting themselves with the yearly revenues and profits that were wont to grow to their forefathers and predecessors of their lands...
Page 562 - To those gentlemen, his quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making plays, RG wisheth a better exercise, and wisdom to prevent his extremities.
Page 322 - And forasmuch as his mind gave him that, his nephews living, men would not reckon that he could have right to the realm, he thought therefore without delay to rid them, as though the killing of his kinsmen could amend his cause and make him a kindly king.
Page 35 - Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring...