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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... spirit of our literature , which breathed more freely after an intense , but , for her , a gloomy struggle . The new period is typified by the names which meet us at the beginning of this volume . It is not for his style , orderly ...
... spirit of our literature , which breathed more freely after an intense , but , for her , a gloomy struggle . The new period is typified by the names which meet us at the beginning of this volume . It is not for his style , orderly ...
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... spirit of the succeeding generation was to bring greater lucidity and exactness of thought and method , and as a result the cumbrous period was to be shortened , and the movement of our prose made more quick and natural . But even what ...
... spirit of the succeeding generation was to bring greater lucidity and exactness of thought and method , and as a result the cumbrous period was to be shortened , and the movement of our prose made more quick and natural . But even what ...
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... Spirit of promise . Secondly , in respect of their conversation : For as he which hath called them is holy , so are they holy in all manner of conversation : adding to their faith virtue , and to virtue knowledge , and to knowledge ...
... Spirit of promise . Secondly , in respect of their conversation : For as he which hath called them is holy , so are they holy in all manner of conversation : adding to their faith virtue , and to virtue knowledge , and to knowledge ...
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... spirit ; or if in truth I be mistaken , I wish him store of proselytes , and that we had more such solitary gentlemen that could render an account of their retirements , and whilst they argue against conversation ( which is the last of ...
... spirit ; or if in truth I be mistaken , I wish him store of proselytes , and that we had more such solitary gentlemen that could render an account of their retirements , and whilst they argue against conversation ( which is the last of ...
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... spirit and an evil age , which , having sadly debauched the minds of men , seeks with industry to blast and undermine all attempts and endeavours that signify , to the illustration of truth , the discovery of imposture and its sandy ...
... spirit and an evil age , which , having sadly debauched the minds of men , seeks with industry to blast and undermine all attempts and endeavours that signify , to the illustration of truth , the discovery of imposture and its sandy ...
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admirable ancient appear beauty Ben Jonson Bishop blank verse body called character Charles II Christ Christian Church Church of England conversation court death Demosthenes desire discourse divine Dryden earth endeavour England English prose Epicurus essays Euphuism excellent fancy father genius gentleman GEORGE SAINTSBURY give hand happiness hath heart holy honour humour imagination Isaac Barrow JOHN DRYDEN JOHN TILLOTSON judge judgment kind king lady language learning less letters liberty literary live look Lord mankind manner matter mind nature neighbour never observed occasion opinion ourselves passions Pelasgi persons pleasure poet poetry political prince reader reason religion sense sermons soul speak spirit style Tatler tell temper things Thomas Ellwood THOMAS RYMER THOMAS SPRAT thou thought tion true truth verse virtue Whig whole words writings
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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.