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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... King Charles II.'s Days PAGE 151 152 154 156 158 An Apology for The Duke of Guise Dryden and his Critics Dryden and Collier Chaucer Religio Laici His Old Age ANTHONY WOOD 160 161 163 164 165 F. H. Trench 167 Ancient Oxford 171 The King's ...
... King Charles II.'s Days PAGE 151 152 154 156 158 An Apology for The Duke of Guise Dryden and his Critics Dryden and Collier Chaucer Religio Laici His Old Age ANTHONY WOOD 160 161 163 164 165 F. H. Trench 167 Ancient Oxford 171 The King's ...
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... King of Brobdingnag inquires into the State of Europe 419 True and False Raillery 423 ARBUTHNOT The Editor 425 Newton's Discovery 428 Mother Church Sister Peg Physical Philosophy A Farewell Letter BERNARD DE MANDEVILLE The Genesis of ...
... King of Brobdingnag inquires into the State of Europe 419 True and False Raillery 423 ARBUTHNOT The Editor 425 Newton's Discovery 428 Mother Church Sister Peg Physical Philosophy A Farewell Letter BERNARD DE MANDEVILLE The Genesis of ...
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... King's College , Cambridge , where he became a Fellow in 1634. He received holy orders in 1639 , and was appointed chaplain to the Lord Keeper Finch , who presented him to the living of Torrington in Suffolk . On the breaking out of the ...
... King's College , Cambridge , where he became a Fellow in 1634. He received holy orders in 1639 , and was appointed chaplain to the Lord Keeper Finch , who presented him to the living of Torrington in Suffolk . On the breaking out of the ...
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... king , in An Apology for the Royal Party ( 1659 ) , and A Panegyric at the Coronation ( 1661 ) . An ardent member of the Royal Society , he published his best known book , Silva , under its auspices , in 1664. He wrote also upon ...
... king , in An Apology for the Royal Party ( 1659 ) , and A Panegyric at the Coronation ( 1661 ) . An ardent member of the Royal Society , he published his best known book , Silva , under its auspices , in 1664. He wrote also upon ...
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... king that ever swayed the British sceptre , had he been firm to that Church for which his martyred and blessed father suffered . The emissaries and instruments of the Church of Rome will never rest till they have crushed the Church of ...
... king that ever swayed the British sceptre , had he been firm to that Church for which his martyred and blessed father suffered . The emissaries and instruments of the Church of Rome will never rest till they have crushed the Church of ...
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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.