Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to MacaulayGeorge Saintsbury K. Paul, Trench & Company, 1885 - 367 páginas |
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... thou were head of all christian knights . " " And now I dare say , " said Sir Bors , " that Sir Launcelot there thou liest , thou were never matched of none earthly knight's hands ; and thou were the courteoust knight that ever bare ...
... thou were head of all christian knights . " " And now I dare say , " said Sir Bors , " that Sir Launcelot there thou liest , thou were never matched of none earthly knight's hands ; and thou were the courteoust knight that ever bare ...
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... thou were the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights ; and thou were the meekest man and the gentlest , that ever eat in hall among ladies , and thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the ...
... thou were the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights ; and thou were the meekest man and the gentlest , that ever eat in hall among ladies , and thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the ...
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... thou art ashes , and into ashes shalt thou return , " which be the words that the minister speaketh unto the ignorant people , when he giveth them ashes upon Ash- Wednesday , but it must be spoken in Latin . God's word may in no wise be ...
... thou art ashes , and into ashes shalt thou return , " which be the words that the minister speaketh unto the ignorant people , when he giveth them ashes upon Ash- Wednesday , but it must be spoken in Latin . God's word may in no wise be ...
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... thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared , thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered , thou only hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawn together all the far stretched greatness , all the pride , cruelty ...
... thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared , thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered , thou only hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawn together all the far stretched greatness , all the pride , cruelty ...
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... thou couldst be as eloquent as in remembering them thou oughtest to be penitent : be she never so comely call her counterfeit , be she never so straight think her crooked . And wrest all parts of her JOHN LYLY 1554?- REMEDIA AMORIS.
... thou couldst be as eloquent as in remembering them thou oughtest to be penitent : be she never so comely call her counterfeit , be she never so straight think her crooked . And wrest all parts of her JOHN LYLY 1554?- REMEDIA AMORIS.
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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...