English Prose: From the sixteenth century to the restorationSir Henry Craik Macmillan, 1913 |
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... seem that the Elizabethans had attained . What they wanted we might judge was but a trick of art . But whether they cared not for the achievement , or the achievement was impossible , they reached to no such perfec- tion , and left no ...
... seem that the Elizabethans had attained . What they wanted we might judge was but a trick of art . But whether they cared not for the achievement , or the achievement was impossible , they reached to no such perfec- tion , and left no ...
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... seems as if his aphorisms , and the thoughts that flower about them , often grew out of the aptness of a phrase that has suggested itself to his fancy . But the promise of Bacon did not endure . The conditions of the time were adverse ...
... seems as if his aphorisms , and the thoughts that flower about them , often grew out of the aptness of a phrase that has suggested itself to his fancy . But the promise of Bacon did not endure . The conditions of the time were adverse ...
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... seem quaint and curious , even affected ; but to understand it so in a seventeenth - century writer is to misread the literature of the day . But side by side with this many influences were at ... seems to be everything , and INTRODUCTION 5.
... seem quaint and curious , even affected ; but to understand it so in a seventeenth - century writer is to misread the literature of the day . But side by side with this many influences were at ... seems to be everything , and INTRODUCTION 5.
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... seems to be altogether neglected , and the writer is absorbed only in his subject , as with Selden , Lord Herbert of Cherbury , and Ussher . Sometimes the most fantastic , either in style or subject , seems to be the only object of ...
... seems to be altogether neglected , and the writer is absorbed only in his subject , as with Selden , Lord Herbert of Cherbury , and Ussher . Sometimes the most fantastic , either in style or subject , seems to be the only object of ...
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... seem to have had Hooker's ear for the music of long periods , which often betrayed the great churchman into intricacy of syntax . Thus , on the whole , Bacon's prose helped the tendency to avoid cumbrous and involved structure , the ...
... seem to have had Hooker's ear for the music of long periods , which often betrayed the great churchman into intricacy of syntax . Thus , on the whole , Bacon's prose helped the tendency to avoid cumbrous and involved structure , the ...
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English Prose, Vol. 1: Selections; With Critical Introductions by Various ... Henry Craik Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
English Prose: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volumen1 Henry Sir Craik Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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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.