English Prose: Selections, Volumen4Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1894 This collection shows the growth and development of English prose by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers. |
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... least limited the freedom which such travesties might have assumed . That century did much , and we cannot fairly blame it because it did not do more . These then , with no more exceptions than were necessary and natural , were the ...
... least limited the freedom which such travesties might have assumed . That century did much , and we cannot fairly blame it because it did not do more . These then , with no more exceptions than were necessary and natural , were the ...
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... least fastidiousness of literary taste . Heartless he may be , but he has the sense of humour . He may be con- ventional , but he is never vain ; and if his philosophy is barren and circumscribed , he at least knew how to adapt his ...
... least fastidiousness of literary taste . Heartless he may be , but he has the sense of humour . He may be con- ventional , but he is never vain ; and if his philosophy is barren and circumscribed , he at least knew how to adapt his ...
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... least , it was peculiar , that it was endowed with literary tact ; and if it did nothing else , it proved that genius might work in obedience to the unwritten laws which that tact prescribed , and that even although the exuberance of ...
... least , it was peculiar , that it was endowed with literary tact ; and if it did nothing else , it proved that genius might work in obedience to the unwritten laws which that tact prescribed , and that even although the exuberance of ...
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... least established a current diction for comic narrative , vigorous if somewhat barbar- ous in its vigour . As the century closed , the novel passed into very different hands , in the earliest of our female writers of fiction , Madame d ...
... least established a current diction for comic narrative , vigorous if somewhat barbar- ous in its vigour . As the century closed , the novel passed into very different hands , in the earliest of our female writers of fiction , Madame d ...
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... least of an open and candid examination is largely assisted by the perfect perspicuity of the phrase , the apparent abstinence from all flings , shifts , and evasions under cover of declamation on the one side , or of buffoonery on the ...
... least of an open and candid examination is largely assisted by the perfect perspicuity of the phrase , the apparent abstinence from all flings , shifts , and evasions under cover of declamation on the one side , or of buffoonery on the ...
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Adam Adam Smith admiration ancient appear authority beauty Belford called character Christ Church common considered conversation CONYERS MIDDLETON criticism David Hume death divine Duke of Bedford effect endeavour England eyes father favour genius GEORGE SAINTSBURY give grace hand happiness hath heart heaven honour hope Horace Walpole human humour ideas imagination Johnson Jonathan Wild kind labour lady learning least less letters liberty literary lived look Lord mankind manner means ment merit metaphysical poets mind moral nation nature never object observed opinion passions perfect perhaps person philosophical poet poetry political Pompey principles reason religion SAMUEL RICHARDSON Scotland Scripture seemed sense sentiments society speak spirit style suppose taste temper things Thomas Warton thought tion Tom Jones truth uncle Toby vigour virtue whole William Law words writings
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Página 495 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Página 183 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Página 448 - For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book and all the people. Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Página 42 - Now, when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John, who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost (for as yet he was fallen upon none of them; only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus). Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Página 51 - That Christ was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. (2) That as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive. From the beginning to the end of Christ's atoning work, no other power is ascribed to it, nothing else is intended by it, as an appeaser of wrath, but the destroying of all that in man which comes from the devil ; no other merits, or value, or infinite worth, than that of its infinite ability...
Página 377 - America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who understand the military art will, of course, have some predilection for it. Those who wield the thunder of the State may have more confidence in the efficacy of arms. But i confess, possibly for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much...
Página 382 - The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them.
Página 580 - A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep...
Página 363 - I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.
Página 74 - The Wise Man observes, that there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not at all speak from their having any thing to say, as every sentence shows, but only from their inclination to be talking.