A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of English Prose StyleSherwin Cody A. C. McClurg, 1903 - 415 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 20
Página 9
... poesy vinum dæmonum , 2 be- cause it filleth the imagination , and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie . But it is not the lie that 2 The wine of demons . 1 Aiming at . passeth through the mind , but the lie that sinketh Bacon 9.
... poesy vinum dæmonum , 2 be- cause it filleth the imagination , and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie . But it is not the lie that 2 The wine of demons . 1 Aiming at . passeth through the mind , but the lie that sinketh Bacon 9.
Página 102
... . I am subdued to an inferior interest . Those shadows of winning amuse me . That last game I had with my sweet cousin ( I capotted her ) - ( dare I tell thee , how foolish I am ? ) I wished it might have lasted 102 Best English Essays.
... . I am subdued to an inferior interest . Those shadows of winning amuse me . That last game I had with my sweet cousin ( I capotted her ) - ( dare I tell thee , how foolish I am ? ) I wished it might have lasted 102 Best English Essays.
Página 103
... shadow , lengthening in the noon - tide of our prosperity , - an unwelcome remembrancer , a perpetually recurring mortification , a drain on your purse , a more intolerable dun upon your pride , drawback upon success , a rebuke to your ...
... shadow , lengthening in the noon - tide of our prosperity , - an unwelcome remembrancer , a perpetually recurring mortification , a drain on your purse , a more intolerable dun upon your pride , drawback upon success , a rebuke to your ...
Página 125
... shadow of the pyramids grows less . And often the restoration in vision of Fanny and the Bath road makes me too pathetically sensible of that truth . Out of the dark- ness , if I happen to call back the image of Fanny , up rises ...
... shadow of the pyramids grows less . And often the restoration in vision of Fanny and the Bath road makes me too pathetically sensible of that truth . Out of the dark- ness , if I happen to call back the image of Fanny , up rises ...
Página 150
... shadow of failure in him , must by the fiercest of translations must without time for a prayer must within seventy seconds - stand before the judgment - seat of God . - But craven he was not : sudden had been the call upon him , and ...
... shadow of failure in him , must by the fiercest of translations must without time for a prayer must within seventy seconds - stand before the judgment - seat of God . - But craven he was not : sudden had been the call upon him , and ...
Términos y frases comunes
A. C. McCLURG action admire beauty better body called character Charles Lamb church critic culture Cyclops darkness disease divine dreams earth EDGAR ALLAN POE English essay expression father feel force Frederic Harrison Friedrich Schlegel genius give hand heart heaven human ideas intellectual Jacobinism Johnson labour lady less Levana literary literature live look man's manner matter Matthew Arnold means merely mind modern moral nature ness never night observe Oxford movement passion perfection person Philistines philosophy pleasure poet poetry present prose prose poetry Protestantism Puritans Pyrrhonism Quincey reader reason religion religious organisations Ruskin Sainte-Beuve seems sense Sir Roger society soul speak spirit style sweetness and light things thou thought tion true truth Uncon University virtue waves whist whole wholly word writer young
Pasajes populares
Página 7 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Página 246 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Página 8 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Página 7 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Página 12 - Magna civitas, magna solitudo ; " because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighborhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness...
Página 8 - Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body, may have appropriate exercises.
Página 281 - Events which shortsighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished, and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the evangelist and the harp of the prophet. He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.
Página 13 - ... no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
Página 20 - A man cannot speak to his son but as a father; to his wife but as a husband; to his enemy but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
Página 90 - ... indefinable sweetness growing up to it —the tender blossoming of fat — fat cropped in the bud — taken in the shoot — in the first innocence — the cream and quintessence of the child-pig's yet pure food — the lean, no lean, but a kind of animal manna — or, rather, fat and lean (if it must be so) so blended and running into each other, that both together make but one ambrosian result or common substance. Behold him while he is doing — it seemeth rather a refreshing warmth, than...