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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... and Trimmers 214 Concluding Considerations on the Character of Charles II . 215 On the Treatment of Children 217 SAMUEL PEPYS W. P. Ker 219 Sir C. Mings 222 PAGE The Fire Epsom Downs . ROBERT SOUTH The Happiness CONTENTS vii.
... and Trimmers 214 Concluding Considerations on the Character of Charles II . 215 On the Treatment of Children 217 SAMUEL PEPYS W. P. Ker 219 Sir C. Mings 222 PAGE The Fire Epsom Downs . ROBERT SOUTH The Happiness CONTENTS vii.
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... Character of William III . 322 The Character of Sir Matthew Hale 325 WILLIAM PENN An Exhortation A Plea for Toleration DR . EDWARD BROWNE Unicorns ' Horns The Emperor Leopoldus A. 1. Fitzroy 333 335 336 Norman Moore 341 342 343 FLETCHER ...
... Character of William III . 322 The Character of Sir Matthew Hale 325 WILLIAM PENN An Exhortation A Plea for Toleration DR . EDWARD BROWNE Unicorns ' Horns The Emperor Leopoldus A. 1. Fitzroy 333 335 336 Norman Moore 341 342 343 FLETCHER ...
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... As Proud as the Marchioness Lyscinnia JOHN , LORD HERVEY 609 G. S. Street 613 The Character of Bolingbroke . 615 616 The Death of Queen Caroline . NOTES 617 INTRODUCTION IN the period just preceding that covered by the xii ENGLISH PROSE.
... As Proud as the Marchioness Lyscinnia JOHN , LORD HERVEY 609 G. S. Street 613 The Character of Bolingbroke . 615 616 The Death of Queen Caroline . NOTES 617 INTRODUCTION IN the period just preceding that covered by the xii ENGLISH PROSE.
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... character ; according to another almost contemporary historian , Laurence Echard , " he filled the bishopric of Chester with honour and reputation . " ] BISHOP PEARSON is in the popular estimation essentially homo unius libri ...
... character ; according to another almost contemporary historian , Laurence Echard , " he filled the bishopric of Chester with honour and reputation . " ] BISHOP PEARSON is in the popular estimation essentially homo unius libri ...
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... Character of England ( 1651 ) , and The State of France ( 1652 ) . During the Commonwealth he withdrew altogether from public life , and spent his time chiefly in forestry and gardening , and , in 1659 , published a translation of the ...
... Character of England ( 1651 ) , and The State of France ( 1652 ) . During the Commonwealth he withdrew altogether from public life , and spent his time chiefly in forestry and gardening , and , in 1659 , published a translation of the ...
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Page 492 - Does life appear miserable, that gives thee opportunities of earning such a reward? Is death to be feared, that will convey thee to so happy an existence? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an eternity reserved for him.
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 290 - 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 516 - 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 391 - 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 489 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human...
Page 282 - 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 492 - The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect : look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Page 491 - ... 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.