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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... light to run away ; and almost all fugitives are of that condition . A single life doth well with churchmen ; for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool . indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if ...
... light to run away ; and almost all fugitives are of that condition . A single life doth well with churchmen ; for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool . indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if ...
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... lights on the sides , that you may have rooms from the sun , both for forenoon and afternoon . Cast it also , that you may have rooms both for summer and winter shady for summer , and warm for winter . You shall have sometimes fair ...
... lights on the sides , that you may have rooms from the sun , both for forenoon and afternoon . Cast it also , that you may have rooms both for summer and winter shady for summer , and warm for winter . You shall have sometimes fair ...
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... light towards him , and he stood in the dark to them ; yet without strangeness , but with a semblance of mutual communication of affairs . As for little envies or emulations upon foreign princes ( which are frequent with many kings ...
... light towards him , and he stood in the dark to them ; yet without strangeness , but with a semblance of mutual communication of affairs . As for little envies or emulations upon foreign princes ( which are frequent with many kings ...
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... light . Wherefore we bent our course thither , where we saw the appearance of land , all that night ; and in the dawning of the next day , we might plainly discern that it was a land ; flat to our sight , and full of boscage ; which ...
... light . Wherefore we bent our course thither , where we saw the appearance of land , all that night ; and in the dawning of the next day , we might plainly discern that it was a land ; flat to our sight , and full of boscage ; which ...
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... light effluxions from spirit to spirit , when men are in presence one with another , as well as from body to body . It hath been observed that old men who have loved young company and been conversant continually with them , have been of ...
... light effluxions from spirit to spirit , when men are in presence one with another , as well as from body to body . It hath been observed that old men who have loved young company and been conversant continually with them , have been of ...
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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...