English Language and Literary Criticism: English prosePotter, 1883 |
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... imaginations and to amuse their fancy than to increase their knowledge . Geoffrey professed that his book was a translation of an ancient Welsh history brought over from Brittany by one Walter , Archdeacon of Oxford ; yet we can repose ...
... imaginations and to amuse their fancy than to increase their knowledge . Geoffrey professed that his book was a translation of an ancient Welsh history brought over from Brittany by one Walter , Archdeacon of Oxford ; yet we can repose ...
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James Baldwin. Men of great name were recalled and passed before the imagination in a spirit kindred to that of books of later . time which yielded tragedies to dramatists when they arose . ' Fifty years after the appearance of ...
James Baldwin. Men of great name were recalled and passed before the imagination in a spirit kindred to that of books of later . time which yielded tragedies to dramatists when they arose . ' Fifty years after the appearance of ...
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... imaginative faculties and to their innate sense of the beautiful found numerous admirers ; but dull prose had but few charms to men who had not yet learned to reason for themselves , and who were prohibited by law from publicly ...
... imaginative faculties and to their innate sense of the beautiful found numerous admirers ; but dull prose had but few charms to men who had not yet learned to reason for themselves , and who were prohibited by law from publicly ...
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... imagination and reason , as well as a record of facts , thus impressing general truths upon the mind of the reader by means of the vividness , as well as the accu- racy , of the statements . " The instruction derived from history thus ...
... imagination and reason , as well as a record of facts , thus impressing general truths upon the mind of the reader by means of the vividness , as well as the accu- racy , of the statements . " The instruction derived from history thus ...
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... imagination , his antiqua- rian perspicuity , his broad general views , and yet he is no dealer in guesses . The national common sense and the energetic craving for profound belief retain him on the limits of supposition ; when he does ...
... imagination , his antiqua- rian perspicuity , his broad general views , and yet he is no dealer in guesses . The national common sense and the energetic craving for profound belief retain him on the limits of supposition ; when he does ...
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Seite 344 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Seite 417 - Almighty and most merciful Father : We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done ; and there is no health in us.
Seite 295 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Seite 133 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, And his circuit unto the ends of it : And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Seite 406 - The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments, and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible.
Seite 520 - And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Seite 503 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Seite 384 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Seite 389 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But, until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price, of which you have the monopoly.
Seite 74 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.