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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... live in , and not to look on ; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity , except where both may be had . Leave the goodly fabrics of houses , for beauty only , to the enchanted palaces of the poets ; who build them with small ...
... live in , and not to look on ; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity , except where both may be had . Leave the goodly fabrics of houses , for beauty only , to the enchanted palaces of the poets ; who build them with small ...
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... live of many subjects . Whereof the last is the most forcible and the most con- stant . And this is the true reason of that event which we observed and rehearsed before , that most of the great kingdoms of the world have sprung out of ...
... live of many subjects . Whereof the last is the most forcible and the most con- stant . And this is the true reason of that event which we observed and rehearsed before , that most of the great kingdoms of the world have sprung out of ...
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... lives . " Our other wants we set down in par- ticular ; adding , " that we had some little store of merchandise , which , if it pleased them to deal for , it might supply our wants without being chargeable unto them . " We offered some ...
... lives . " Our other wants we set down in par- ticular ; adding , " that we had some little store of merchandise , which , if it pleased them to deal for , it might supply our wants without being chargeable unto them . " We offered some ...
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... live in Egypt , and other remote places from Rome . Howsoever the conceit of a predominant or master- ing spirit of one man over another is ancient , and received still , even in vulgar opinion . There are conceits that some men , that ...
... live in Egypt , and other remote places from Rome . Howsoever the conceit of a predominant or master- ing spirit of one man over another is ancient , and received still , even in vulgar opinion . There are conceits that some men , that ...
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... lives of William I. , William II . , and Henry I .; and his works comprise a History of the Reign of Edward VI . , and one of the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth , which was not printed till 1840. He also wrote many forgotten works ...
... lives of William I. , William II . , and Henry I .; and his works comprise a History of the Reign of Edward VI . , and one of the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth , which was not printed till 1840. He also wrote many forgotten works ...
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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
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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...