Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to MacaulayGeorge Saintsbury K. Paul, Trench & Company, 1885 - 367 páginas |
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... cried out , " that they might have leave to fetch off those cannon . " In the end , order was given to attempt the hill with horse and foot . Two strong parties of musketeers were sent into the woods , which flanked the enemy . And the ...
... cried out , " that they might have leave to fetch off those cannon . " In the end , order was given to attempt the hill with horse and foot . Two strong parties of musketeers were sent into the woods , which flanked the enemy . And the ...
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... cried , “ Soldania , ” and cast away their clothes , and came again in the sight of our ships , with dung on their heads and guts hanging about their necks , triumphing in their sordid nakedness . Just so do worldly , sensual men , in ...
... cried , “ Soldania , ” and cast away their clothes , and came again in the sight of our ships , with dung on their heads and guts hanging about their necks , triumphing in their sordid nakedness . Just so do worldly , sensual men , in ...
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... cried he ; and I could not beat him out on it . He made such a noise , and such an outcry here , that , had they but heard him , it was enough to encourage them to come and fall upon us . But this I took very great notice of , that this ...
... cried he ; and I could not beat him out on it . He made such a noise , and such an outcry here , that , had they but heard him , it was enough to encourage them to come and fall upon us . But this I took very great notice of , that this ...
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... cried abroad by those who never saw it ; or , if they have been here , have yet perhaps seen no more of it than what belongs to inns , or to taverns and ordinaries ; who accuse our country for their own defaults , and speak ill , not ...
... cried abroad by those who never saw it ; or , if they have been here , have yet perhaps seen no more of it than what belongs to inns , or to taverns and ordinaries ; who accuse our country for their own defaults , and speak ill , not ...
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... cried out of them . Next to this let them tell their children over and over of the villainous imprisonments , and I contumelious trial , and the barbarous murder of that blessed ROBERT SOUTH 1633-1716 THE EXECUTION OF CHARLES I.
... cried out of them . Next to this let them tell their children over and over of the villainous imprisonments , and I contumelious trial , and the barbarous murder of that blessed ROBERT SOUTH 1633-1716 THE EXECUTION OF CHARLES I.
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Términos y frases comunes
Addison APHRA BEHN appear authority Barnardine beauty better body born breath called character church Cicero common conversation Conyers Middleton cried DAVID HUME death died divine effect enemy England English prose eyes faculty fancy father favour fear friends GEORGE BERKELEY GILBERT BURNET give hand hath heard heaven honour Horace Walpole horse human humour imagination JONATHAN SWIFT kind king knowledge lady Lady Mary Pierrepont laws less literary live London look Lord manner Mansoul matter means mind miracle nation nature never observed once passions perhaps person pleasure poetry poor prince principles racter reason religion ROBERT SOUTH seemed Seithenyn sense Sir Ector sometimes soul spirit style suffer suppose temper things THOMAS GRAY thou thought tion TOBIAS SMOLLETT told took truth unto virtue whole William Waller words writers
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Página 192 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Página 59 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers...
Página 173 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : why then should we desire to be deceived...
Página 60 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 60 - To be still searching what we know not by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal, and proportional), this is the golden rule in theology as well as in arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony in a Church; not the forced and outward /\ union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds.
Página 182 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Página 22 - THESE things are but toys, to come amongst such serious observations. But yet, since princes will have such things, it is better they should be graced with elegancy than daubed with cost.
Página 212 - The probability that any particular person shall ever be qualified for the employment to which he is educated, is very different in different occupations. In the greater part of mechanic trades, success is almost certain ; but very uncertain in the liberal professions. Put your son apprentice to a shoemaker, there is little doubt of his learning to make a pair of shoes : but send him to study the law, it is at least twenty to one if ever he makes such proficiency as will enable him to live by the...
Página 28 - So that the sum of all is : ready writing makes not good writing; but good writing brings on ready writing. Yet when we think we have got the faculty, it is even then good to resist it...
Página 327 - ... a word, a trait in the representation of a scene or a passion, will touch the enchanted chord, and reanimate, in those who have ever experienced these emotions, the sleeping, the cold, the buried image of the past. Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world...