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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... published in this place concerning judges and justices , hath made the speech of his Chancellor , accustomed before the Circuits , rather of ceremony than of use . For , as in his book to his son he hath set forth a true character and ...
... published in this place concerning judges and justices , hath made the speech of his Chancellor , accustomed before the Circuits , rather of ceremony than of use . For , as in his book to his son he hath set forth a true character and ...
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... published in 1616 an edition of his prose works , which included his speeches and some occasional tracts . ] " IT is usual to introduce James I. among the writers of his reign with an apology ; and it is commonly , and perhaps justly ...
... published in 1616 an edition of his prose works , which included his speeches and some occasional tracts . ] " IT is usual to introduce James I. among the writers of his reign with an apology ; and it is commonly , and perhaps justly ...
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... published , quia nescit vox missa reverti . If ye would write worthily , choose subjects worthy of you , that be not full of vanity , but of virtue ; eschewing obscurity , and delighting ever to be plain and sensible . And if ye write ...
... published , quia nescit vox missa reverti . If ye would write worthily , choose subjects worthy of you , that be not full of vanity , but of virtue ; eschewing obscurity , and delighting ever to be plain and sensible . And if ye write ...
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... published in 1665 ) at the instigation of the former monarch . He died in 1639 , and is buried in Westminster Abbey . ] " IN Scotland , " says Lord Clarendon , speaking of the time of James VI . and I. , " though there were bishops in ...
... published in 1665 ) at the instigation of the former monarch . He died in 1639 , and is buried in Westminster Abbey . ] " IN Scotland , " says Lord Clarendon , speaking of the time of James VI . and I. , " though there were bishops in ...
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... published by Scioppius several years after date . The panegyric contains a more academic saying of which its author wished mention to be made in his epitaph , thus " Englished " by Izaak Walton : " Here lies the first author of this ...
... published by Scioppius several years after date . The panegyric contains a more academic saying of which its author wished mention to be made in his epitaph , thus " Englished " by Izaak Walton : " Here lies the first author of this ...
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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...