English Prose: From the sixteenth century to the restorationSir Henry Craik Macmillan, 1913 |
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... Friend and Enemy , when most dangerous 287 Of Preaching . 287 Description of a Dutch House 289 SIR KENELM DIGBY The Editor 291 An Extract from a Ship's Log 295 The Maxims of Self - contentment 296 . Doctor Seaton The Soul's Excellence ...
... Friend and Enemy , when most dangerous 287 Of Preaching . 287 Description of a Dutch House 289 SIR KENELM DIGBY The Editor 291 An Extract from a Ship's Log 295 The Maxims of Self - contentment 296 . Doctor Seaton The Soul's Excellence ...
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... Friends Clarendon's Early Manhood The Editor 389 394 397 399 401 411 414 420 422 Character of Himself . 426 Fealty against Conscience 428 Hopes of Peace Frustrated 429 Causes of the Corruption which followed the Restoration 437 The ...
... Friends Clarendon's Early Manhood The Editor 389 394 397 399 401 411 414 420 422 Character of Himself . 426 Fealty against Conscience 428 Hopes of Peace Frustrated 429 Causes of the Corruption which followed the Restoration 437 The ...
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... friends , and namely of your lordship ; who being the Atlas of this commonwealth , the honour of my house , and the second founder of my poor estate , I am tied by all duties , both of a good patriot and of an unworthy kinsman , and of ...
... friends , and namely of your lordship ; who being the Atlas of this commonwealth , the honour of my house , and the second founder of my poor estate , I am tied by all duties , both of a good patriot and of an unworthy kinsman , and of ...
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... friends , best masters , best servants ; but not always best subjects ; for they are light to run away ; and almost all fugitives are of that condition . A single life doth well with churchmen ; for charity will hardly water the ground ...
... friends , best masters , best servants ; but not always best subjects ; for they are light to run away ; and almost all fugitives are of that condition . A single life doth well with churchmen ; for charity will hardly water the ground ...
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... friends ' consent ; for then they will be sure to make good their own folly . ( From the Same . ) OF VAINGLORY It was prettily devised of Æsop ; the fly sat upon the axle - tree of the chariot wheel , and said , What a dust do I raise ...
... friends ' consent ; for then they will be sure to make good their own folly . ( From the Same . ) OF VAINGLORY It was prettily devised of Æsop ; the fly sat upon the axle - tree of the chariot wheel , and said , What a dust do I raise ...
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English Prose, Vol. 1: Selections; With Critical Introductions by Various ... Henry Craik Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 470 - I was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 536 - I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Página 429 - I have eaten his bread, and served him near thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him, and choose rather to lose my life (which I am sure I shall do) to preserve and defend those things, which are against my conscience to preserve and defend. For I will deal freely with you, I have no reverence for the Bishops for whom this quarrel subsists.
Página 344 - Doubt not, therefore, sir, but that angling is an art, and an art worth your learning. The question is rather, whether you be capable of learning it ? for angling is somewhat like poetry, — men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice; but he that hopes to be a good angler must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself;...
Página 538 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Página 215 - Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same is consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withall.
Página 328 - Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
Página 346 - ... which broke their waves, and turned them into foam : and sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs, some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun ; and saw others craving comfort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams.
Página 400 - I am persuaded his power and interest, at that time, was greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time ; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them.
Página 482 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.