English Prose from Mandeville to RuskinGrant Richards, 1903 - 379 pages |
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... appears . Table Talk . IZAAK WALTON 1593-1683 THE MILKMAID AND HER SONG Piscator . But turn out of the way a little , good Scholar , towards yonder high honeysuckle hedge ; there we'll sit and sing whilst this shower falls so gently ...
... appears . Table Talk . IZAAK WALTON 1593-1683 THE MILKMAID AND HER SONG Piscator . But turn out of the way a little , good Scholar , towards yonder high honeysuckle hedge ; there we'll sit and sing whilst this shower falls so gently ...
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... appear and give in their evidence . So there came in three witnesses , to wit , Envy , Superstition , and Pickthank . They were then asked if they knew the prisoner at the bar ; and what they had to say for their lord the king against ...
... appear and give in their evidence . So there came in three witnesses , to wit , Envy , Superstition , and Pickthank . They were then asked if they knew the prisoner at the bar ; and what they had to say for their lord the king against ...
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... appears by the verses he wrote to him ; and therefore I need speak no further of it . The first play that brought Fletcher and him into esteem was their Philaster ; for before that they had written two or three very unsuccessfully , as ...
... appears by the verses he wrote to him ; and therefore I need speak no further of it . The first play that brought Fletcher and him into esteem was their Philaster ; for before that they had written two or three very unsuccessfully , as ...
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... appear- ances , which had nothing in them but air and vapour . Here they told us they saw a flaming sword held in a hand , coming out of a cloud , with a point hanging directly over the city . There they saw hearses and coffins in the ...
... appear- ances , which had nothing in them but air and vapour . Here they told us they saw a flaming sword held in a hand , coming out of a cloud , with a point hanging directly over the city . There they saw hearses and coffins in the ...
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... appear , and the public will be fully convinced of the truth of what I have heretofore asserted , viz . that the quacks contribute more towards keeping us poor than all our national debts , and that to suppress the former would be an ...
... appear , and the public will be fully convinced of the truth of what I have heretofore asserted , viz . that the quacks contribute more towards keeping us poor than all our national debts , and that to suppress the former would be an ...
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Page 84 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 281 - We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children at all. The children of Alice call Bartrum father. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name...
Page 232 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But...
Page 235 - IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 164 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Page 59 - Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams," inferreth that young men are admitted nearer to God than old, because vision is a clearer revelation than a dream. And certainly, the more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth: and age doth profit rather in the powers of understanding, than in the virtues of the will and affections.
Page 7 - And he said unto him, Thy brother is come ; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.
Page 117 - 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 59 - Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Page 163 - I here fetched a deep sigh. Alas, said I, man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. Look no more...