English Prose (1137-1890)John Matthews Manly Ginn, 1909 - 544 pages |
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... nature and destination of the book no less than to the character of the author . - ― The ENGLISH PROCLAMATION OF HENRY III ( p . 4 ) has , of course , no place in the history of literature , though it has in the history of prose style ...
... nature and destination of the book no less than to the character of the author . - ― The ENGLISH PROCLAMATION OF HENRY III ( p . 4 ) has , of course , no place in the history of literature , though it has in the history of prose style ...
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... nature 11 12 to be 13 worthy 14 let 15 consider say 16 will 17 truth 18 have 19 heretofore 20 that 21 an explanation 22 aforesaid 1 " This thing thanne , " quod she , " that ne hath nede of no foreine thing , and that may don alle ...
... nature 11 12 to be 13 worthy 14 let 15 consider say 16 will 17 truth 18 have 19 heretofore 20 that 21 an explanation 22 aforesaid 1 " This thing thanne , " quod she , " that ne hath nede of no foreine thing , and that may don alle ...
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... nature , to be in a Scholemaster : And , that I have done so , neither by chance , nor without some reason , I will now declare at large , why , in mine opin- ion , love is fitter then feare , gentlenes better than beating , to bring up ...
... nature , to be in a Scholemaster : And , that I have done so , neither by chance , nor without some reason , I will now declare at large , why , in mine opin- ion , love is fitter then feare , gentlenes better than beating , to bring up ...
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... nature as they do correcte faultes . Yea , many times , the better nature is sorer punished : For , if one , by quicknes of witte , take his lesson readelie , an other , by hardnes of witte , taketh it not so speedelie : the first is ...
... nature as they do correcte faultes . Yea , many times , the better nature is sorer punished : For , if one , by quicknes of witte , take his lesson readelie , an other , by hardnes of witte , taketh it not so speedelie : the first is ...
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... natural benefits , but principally for the well - tempered minds of the people , who ( finding that the shining title ... Nature is no stepmother to that sex , how much soever some men , sharp - witted only in evil speaking , have sought ...
... natural benefits , but principally for the well - tempered minds of the people , who ( finding that the shining title ... Nature is no stepmother to that sex , how much soever some men , sharp - witted only in evil speaking , have sought ...
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Page 162 - 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 anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 57 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 95 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Page 301 - Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas! for other notes repine; A different object do these eyes require; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire; Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that...
Page 128 - As therefore the state of man now is; what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Page 121 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother-dialect only.
Page 317 - In this idea originated the plan of the " Lyrical Ballads ;" in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic ; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Page 320 - The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination.
Page 126 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. " And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 82 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company ; and faces are but a gallery of pictures ; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is '.no love.