The Oxford Book of English ProseClarendon Press, 1925 - 1092 páginas |
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Página ix
... true intellectual process , or as Socrates , in prison under sentence of death for having failed in it , so nobly proclaimed , the only right way of reforming a common- wealth . But persuasion , whether in narrative or in argument , is ...
... true intellectual process , or as Socrates , in prison under sentence of death for having failed in it , so nobly proclaimed , the only right way of reforming a common- wealth . But persuasion , whether in narrative or in argument , is ...
Página xvi
... true — that is to me , at my time of life , when the instinct to admire is subdued by a scruple against leaving this world with any profession of knowing more than one does . And on a similar principle , in covenant with the years , I ...
... true — that is to me , at my time of life , when the instinct to admire is subdued by a scruple against leaving this world with any profession of knowing more than one does . And on a similar principle , in covenant with the years , I ...
Página 26
... true love , for lytel or noughte , that cost moch thynge . This is no wysedome nor stabylyté , but it is feblenes of nature and grete disworshyp who somever used this . Therfore lyke as May moneth floreth and floryssheth in many gardyns ...
... true love , for lytel or noughte , that cost moch thynge . This is no wysedome nor stabylyté , but it is feblenes of nature and grete disworshyp who somever used this . Therfore lyke as May moneth floreth and floryssheth in many gardyns ...
Página 37
... true & faythfull seruauntes . And who wolde not haue wept that there had ben presente . All Englonde for her dethe had cause of wepynge . The poore creatures that were wonte to receyue her almes , to whome she was alwaye pyteous and ...
... true & faythfull seruauntes . And who wolde not haue wept that there had ben presente . All Englonde for her dethe had cause of wepynge . The poore creatures that were wonte to receyue her almes , to whome she was alwaye pyteous and ...
Página 38
... true defenderesse . All the noble men and women to whome she was a myrroure and exampler of honoure . All the comyn people of this realme for whom she was in theyr causes a comyn mediatryce , and toke ryght grete dyspleasure for them ...
... true defenderesse . All the noble men and women to whome she was a myrroure and exampler of honoure . All the comyn people of this realme for whom she was in theyr causes a comyn mediatryce , and toke ryght grete dyspleasure for them ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
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.