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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... lives and adventures of kings and chieftains . If there were nothing to take account of except the translations and the sermons , there would still be room for satisfaction at the literary skill and promise shown in them ; but it would ...
... lives and adventures of kings and chieftains . If there were nothing to take account of except the translations and the sermons , there would still be room for satisfaction at the literary skill and promise shown in them ; but it would ...
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... lives of epic heroes , and no Celtic vagueness or airiness , but a sense of solidity and matter of fact about the very witches and warlocks , as well as the hero and champion , their enemy . It may have been that in England , where the ...
... lives of epic heroes , and no Celtic vagueness or airiness , but a sense of solidity and matter of fact about the very witches and warlocks , as well as the hero and champion , their enemy . It may have been that in England , where the ...
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... lives . But for some things a strong defence may be made ; for all the old literature that " shows the thing right as it was , " and gives adventures like those of Alfred and his men in the great match played against Hæsten , or natural ...
... lives . But for some things a strong defence may be made ; for all the old literature that " shows the thing right as it was , " and gives adventures like those of Alfred and his men in the great match played against Hæsten , or natural ...
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... Lives of Elfric ; in the other kind of prose the Chronicles themselves give a striking example of the change of tone . They come to an end with the lamentation of the Peterborough monk over the miseries of the reign of Stephen . It is ...
... Lives of Elfric ; in the other kind of prose the Chronicles themselves give a striking example of the change of tone . They come to an end with the lamentation of the Peterborough monk over the miseries of the reign of Stephen . It is ...
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... Lives of Saints is to be explained as a concession to the sort of popular taste which , later , gave a hearing to prodigies like the Cursor Mundi , or , to take the last of the rhyming encyclopedias , written by a man who ought to have ...
... Lives of Saints is to be explained as a concession to the sort of popular taste which , later , gave a hearing to prodigies like the Cursor Mundi , or , to take the last of the rhyming encyclopedias , written by a man who ought to have ...
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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...