English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various Writers, and General Introductions to Each Period, Volume 2Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1894 - English prose literature |
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... less spread into a forest . It would be possible to speculate how the defects might have been supplied , how the secret might have been solved , and a standard for prose fixed as securely as for poetry . All that was hardest of ...
... less spread into a forest . It would be possible to speculate how the defects might have been supplied , how the secret might have been solved , and a standard for prose fixed as securely as for poetry . All that was hardest of ...
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... less , in spite of all its irregularities , his prose has left as distinct an impression on our literature as his personal action has upon our constitution . Another strain of English prose has to be taken into account in estimating the ...
... less , in spite of all its irregularities , his prose has left as distinct an impression on our literature as his personal action has upon our constitution . Another strain of English prose has to be taken into account in estimating the ...
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... less emptiness , less idleness in what he uttered . No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces . His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss . He commanded when he spoke , and had his judges angry and ...
... less emptiness , less idleness in what he uttered . No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces . His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss . He commanded when he spoke , and had his judges angry and ...
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... less encounter in any other . And if your lordship shall find now , or at any time , that I do seek or affect any place whereunto any that is nearer unto your lordship shall be concurrent , say then that I am a most dishonest man . And ...
... less encounter in any other . And if your lordship shall find now , or at any time , that I do seek or affect any place whereunto any that is nearer unto your lordship shall be concurrent , say then that I am a most dishonest man . And ...
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... less important arguments , and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are like common distilled waters , flashy things . Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man . And therefore , if a man ...
... less important arguments , and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are like common distilled waters , flashy things . Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man . And therefore , if a man ...
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Common terms and phrases
Æsop affection amongst ancient Areopagitica authority Basilikon Doron believe Ben Jonson better Bishop body called cause Christ Christian Church Church of England common commonwealth conscience court death delight Democritic desire discourse divine doth doubt Earl earth edition England English Episcopacy Essays Euphuism eyes faith favour fear fortune friends GEORGE SAINTSBURY give hand happy hath heaven Holy honour Hudibras humour Jeremy Taylor judgment justice Kenelm Digby king king's kingdom Latin learning less liberty literary live Long Parliament Lord majesty matter means Milton mind nature never opinion Overbury Owthorpe parliament peace person present prince prose Puritan Queen reason Religio Medici religion Scotland Scripture sermons Smectymnuus soul speak spirit style thee Theophrastus things thou thought tion true truth unto verse virtue wherein whereof whole words writings
Popular passages
Page 470 - 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...
Page 536 - 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.
Page 344 - Doubt not, therefore, sir, but that angling is an art, and an art worth your learning. The question is rather, whether you be capable of learning it ? for angling is somewhat like poetry, — men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice; but he that hopes to be a good angler must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself;...
Page 216 - ... that nature should thus dissociate and render men apt to invade and destroy one another; and he may therefore, not trusting to this inference made from the passions, desire perhaps to have the same confirmed by experience.
Page 538 - 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.
Page 215 - 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.
Page 328 - 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...
Page 482 - 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.
Page 206 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Page 148 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people...