English Prose: Selections, 3. köideSir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1894 This collection shows the growth and development of English prose by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers. |
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... things even mechanically curious and useful , as altogether in the mysteries of government and polity , which indeed are more appositely termed philosophical . Those who have imposed on themselves and others so many different species of ...
... things even mechanically curious and useful , as altogether in the mysteries of government and polity , which indeed are more appositely termed philosophical . Those who have imposed on themselves and others so many different species of ...
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... things , and greater things produced . By emancipating and freeing themselves from the tyranny of opinion , delusory and fallacious shows , they receive nothing upon trust , but bring all things to the Lydian touch ; make them pass the ...
... things , and greater things produced . By emancipating and freeing themselves from the tyranny of opinion , delusory and fallacious shows , they receive nothing upon trust , but bring all things to the Lydian touch ; make them pass the ...
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... things in Marvell's satiric couplets . It is not as good as some The lines on Holland have more of the true Fescennine license in them ; none of the jokes in prose are as good as the opening of An Historical Poem : — " Of a tall stature ...
... things in Marvell's satiric couplets . It is not as good as some The lines on Holland have more of the true Fescennine license in them ; none of the jokes in prose are as good as the opening of An Historical Poem : — " Of a tall stature ...
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... thing of this nature entered into the minds of other men it is not impossible that a late pamphlet , published by ... things that rather did it harm than good ) only longed for some moderation , and as soon as it had tasted this ...
... thing of this nature entered into the minds of other men it is not impossible that a late pamphlet , published by ... things that rather did it harm than good ) only longed for some moderation , and as soon as it had tasted this ...
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... things in good order without recourse to force ; " and they were " made by our ancestors according to the light they had , and their present occasions . " " We are not so much to enquire after what is most ancient , as to that which is ...
... things in good order without recourse to force ; " and they were " made by our ancestors according to the light they had , and their present occasions . " " We are not so much to enquire after what is most ancient , as to that which is ...
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Page 152 - ... you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid, his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when...
Page 161 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them.
Page 152 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 316 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? 275 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Page 544 - His death and passion: and grant, that the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, may effectually teach and persuade me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...
Page 419 - In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine ; When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six, It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, 'Pox take him and his wit!
Page 280 - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people ; saying with a loud voice ; Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters.
Page 519 - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Page 366 - I came home to my fortification, not feeling, as we say, the ground I went on, but terrified to the last degree, looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man...
Page 512 - As soon as the house was full, and the candles lighted, my old friend stood up, and looked about him with that pleasure which a mind seasoned with humanity naturally feels in itself, at the sight of a multitude of people who seem pleased with one another, and partake of the same common entertainment.