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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... never be applicable to any translation . Of no old English prose can it be said that it is wholly free from Latin influence ; but in some of the varying styles employed in the Chronicles , and in the narratives of the voyages , one ...
... never be applicable to any translation . Of no old English prose can it be said that it is wholly free from Latin influence ; but in some of the varying styles employed in the Chronicles , and in the narratives of the voyages , one ...
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... never yet more wretchedness in the land , nor ever did the heathen men worse than these men did . For never anywhere did they spare either church or churchyard , but took all the wealth that was therein , and afterwards burned the ...
... never yet more wretchedness in the land , nor ever did the heathen men worse than these men did . For never anywhere did they spare either church or churchyard , but took all the wealth that was therein , and afterwards burned the ...
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... never fails in romance or homily to bring its sad suggestions of the vanity and transience of all things , of the passing away of pomp and splendour , of the falls of princes . In Malory , while this tone is kept , there is a more ...
... never fails in romance or homily to bring its sad suggestions of the vanity and transience of all things , of the passing away of pomp and splendour , of the falls of princes . In Malory , while this tone is kept , there is a more ...
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... never since , neither the King of Ermonye , nor the country , were never in peace , nor they had never since plenty of goods ; and they have been since always under tribute of the Saracens . Also the son of a poor man woke that hawk ...
... never since , neither the King of Ermonye , nor the country , were never in peace , nor they had never since plenty of goods ; and they have been since always under tribute of the Saracens . Also the son of a poor man woke that hawk ...
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... never man shall see him more . This is not the right way for to go to the parts , that I have named before ; but for to see the marvel , that I have spoken of . THE STATE OF PRESTER JOHN THIS Emperor Prester John , when he goeth in to ...
... never man shall see him more . This is not the right way for to go to the parts , that I have named before ; but for to see the marvel , that I have spoken of . THE STATE OF PRESTER JOHN THIS Emperor Prester John , when he goeth in to ...
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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...