Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880).James Mercer Garnett Ginn, 1891 - 701 Seiten |
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... could interrogate well touching beauty . He did by pleasures , as great Princes do by banquets , come and look a little 23 grave . 24 weighty . upon them , and turn away . For never Prince THE HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII . 87.
... could interrogate well touching beauty . He did by pleasures , as great Princes do by banquets , come and look a little 23 grave . 24 weighty . upon them , and turn away . For never Prince THE HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII . 87.
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... a fool , no more than beauty will the blind , or music the deaf . As we should take care that our style in writing be neither dry nor empty ; we should look again it be not winding DISCOVERIES MADE UPON MEN AND MATTER . 93.
... a fool , no more than beauty will the blind , or music the deaf . As we should take care that our style in writing be neither dry nor empty ; we should look again it be not winding DISCOVERIES MADE UPON MEN AND MATTER . 93.
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James Mercer Garnett. empty ; we should look again it be not winding , or wanton with far - fetched descriptions ; either is a vice . But that is worse which proceeds out of want , than that which riots out of plenty . The remedy of ...
James Mercer Garnett. empty ; we should look again it be not winding , or wanton with far - fetched descriptions ; either is a vice . But that is worse which proceeds out of want , than that which riots out of plenty . The remedy of ...
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... look , pronunciation , motion , useth all these faculties at once : and if we can express this variety together , why should not divers studies , at divers hours , delight , when the variety is able alone to refresh and repair us ? As ...
... look , pronunciation , motion , useth all these faculties at once : and if we can express this variety together , why should not divers studies , at divers hours , delight , when the variety is able alone to refresh and repair us ? As ...
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... look to bee - hives , rear sheep , and all other cattle at once ? It is easier to do many things and continue , than to do one thing long . It is not the passing through these learnings that hurts us , but the dwelling and sticking ...
... look to bee - hives , rear sheep , and all other cattle at once ? It is easier to do many things and continue , than to do one thing long . It is not the passing through these learnings that hurts us , but the dwelling and sticking ...
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Seite 130 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Seite 141 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? "And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Seite 361 - Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, And under his wings shalt thou trust : His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
Seite 174 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature.
Seite 132 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Seite 532 - Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours: For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Seite 598 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night.
Seite 128 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Seite 456 - The church of England too was formed from her cradle under the nursing care of regular government. But the dissenting interests have sprung up in direct opposition to all the ordinary powers of the world ; and could justify that opposition only on a strong claim to natural liberty. Their very existence depended on the powerful and unremitted assertion of that claim. All protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is...
Seite 459 - Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all ; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.