Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time: with an IntroductionH. G. Bohn, 1825 - Počet stran: 615 |
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... language . To obviate such a danger is the aim of this selection ; which is meant to include consi- derable portions of many of those prose writers who have had a decided influence on the English lan- guage and literature . The Editor ...
... language . To obviate such a danger is the aim of this selection ; which is meant to include consi- derable portions of many of those prose writers who have had a decided influence on the English lan- guage and literature . The Editor ...
Strana ix
... the complicated involutions of human affairs , and skilfully to use that gift of articulate language by which the earliest of poets has distin- b guished the human race , to speak and write with No Born Died Page Introduction.
... the complicated involutions of human affairs , and skilfully to use that gift of articulate language by which the earliest of poets has distin- b guished the human race , to speak and write with No Born Died Page Introduction.
Strana x
... language , the illustrious historians , orators , moralists and cri- tics , who may be properly denominated our classic authors . It is somewhat remarkable , that in every literary nation the improvement of a poetical , has preceded ...
... language , the illustrious historians , orators , moralists and cri- tics , who may be properly denominated our classic authors . It is somewhat remarkable , that in every literary nation the improvement of a poetical , has preceded ...
Strana xi
... language . The orators therefore cultivated a style which , by a rhythmical arrangement of the words , satisfied the ear with its numerous cadence , and yet did not seem unadapted to the purposes of business , nor to the unpremeditated ...
... language . The orators therefore cultivated a style which , by a rhythmical arrangement of the words , satisfied the ear with its numerous cadence , and yet did not seem unadapted to the purposes of business , nor to the unpremeditated ...
Strana xii
... language upon which it had to work . The history of a language is in some degree that of the people to whom it belongs , and in all cases declares its progress in civilization , and the advance of the popular mind . The progress of ...
... language upon which it had to work . The history of a language is in some degree that of the people to whom it belongs , and in all cases declares its progress in civilization , and the advance of the popular mind . The progress of ...
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Strana 87 - Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy, and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
Strana 199 - I am now indented ; as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her siren daughters : but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Strana 12 - But he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the wellenchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner, and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue...
Strana 451 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim: Th' unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Strana 89 - HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Strana 61 - Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and insolent that they are but Abjects, and humbles them at the instant; makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepassed happiness.
Strana 88 - To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business : it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature ; and that mixture of falsehood is like allay in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent ; which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover...
Strana 196 - John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn scenes and acts with a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies : and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm.
Strana 88 - For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore...
Strana 86 - What is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness ; and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.