The Oxford Book of English ProseClarendon Press, 1925 - 1092 páginas |
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Página 62
... morning it is greene & groweth vp , but in the euening it is cut downe , dried vp and withered . For we consume away in thy displeasure : and are afrayde at thy wrath- full indignation . Thou hast set our misdedes before thee , and our ...
... morning it is greene & groweth vp , but in the euening it is cut downe , dried vp and withered . For we consume away in thy displeasure : and are afrayde at thy wrath- full indignation . Thou hast set our misdedes before thee , and our ...
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... morning the sun shone bright and clear , the wind was whistling aloft , and sharp according to the time of the year . The snow in the highway lay loose and trodden with horse feet so as the wind blew , it took the loose snow with it ...
... morning the sun shone bright and clear , the wind was whistling aloft , and sharp according to the time of the year . The snow in the highway lay loose and trodden with horse feet so as the wind blew , it took the loose snow with it ...
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... morning , that the one could not well see the other . Dr. Taylor answered , ' Dear wife , I am here , ' and stayed . The Sheriff's men would have led him forth , but the Sheriff said , ' Stay a little , masters , I pray you , and let ...
... morning , that the one could not well see the other . Dr. Taylor answered , ' Dear wife , I am here , ' and stayed . The Sheriff's men would have led him forth , but the Sheriff said , ' Stay a little , masters , I pray you , and let ...
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... morning they were founde dead , whom the people of Argos by two carved monumentes placed at Delphos commended to everlastinge memory for men of rare and excellent vertue . To these men did Solon attribute the next step to perfect ...
... morning they were founde dead , whom the people of Argos by two carved monumentes placed at Delphos commended to everlastinge memory for men of rare and excellent vertue . To these men did Solon attribute the next step to perfect ...
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... morning ? how art thou cut downe to the ground , which didst weaken the nations ? Isaiah xiv . 9-12 76 • Thine eyes TH shall see the King in his beauty ' HINE eyes shall see the king in his beauty : they shall behold the land that is ...
... morning ? how art thou cut downe to the ground , which didst weaken the nations ? Isaiah xiv . 9-12 76 • Thine eyes TH shall see the King in his beauty ' HINE eyes shall see the king in his beauty : they shall behold the land that is ...
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Términos y frases comunes
A. C. Benson Aesop agen ancient beautiful better boat called Captain Church Crito dead dear death delight earth enemy England English eyes F. H. Bradley face fair Falstaff father feel flowers FRANCIS VERE Froissart's Chronicles garden gentleman give ground hand hath haue head hear heard heart heaven honour hour Jocelin John King knew knyght kyng labour Lady learned light live look Lord Lothair Makbeth master mind moche morning nature never night noble passed Pembroke College Plato pleasure praye Prince Redgauntlet sayd sche seemed ship side sight silence soul spirit stood sweet talk tell thanne thee therfore things thou thought tion told took town trees turned uncle Toby unto vnto voice walked whan whole wind woman word wyll young
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Página 952 - I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my Pilgrimage, and my Courage and Skill to him that can get it.
Página 413 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, my Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble, " Most obedient servant,
Página 286 - 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.
Página 164 - 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. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Página 322 - It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand...
Página 467 - Little did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Página 163 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature...
Página 224 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and f heat.
Página 212 - O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die ; And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.
Página 357 - The bridge thou seest, said he, is Human Life : consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which added to those that were entire made up the number about a hundred.