English Prose (1137-1890)John Matthews Manly Ginn, 1909 - 544 páginas |
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... present whole selections rather than brilliant scraps of course made proportional representation impossible , and the cuts that were made did not better the adjustment , as they were made where they would cause the least loss of formal ...
... present whole selections rather than brilliant scraps of course made proportional representation impossible , and the cuts that were made did not better the adjustment , as they were made where they would cause the least loss of formal ...
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... presents a good speci- men of his sustained power as a writer of English prose . JEREMY TAYLOR ( p . 136 ) was a master of ... present use . " That he was not altogether averse to what we now call " graft , " is true ; but in an age of ...
... presents a good speci- men of his sustained power as a writer of English prose . JEREMY TAYLOR ( p . 136 ) was a master of ... present use . " That he was not altogether averse to what we now call " graft , " is true ; but in an age of ...
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... present day to be singularly lacking in breadth , depth , and solidity of content , but there can be no question of the clearness and grace of his presentation of it . Occasionally , to be sure , Shaftesbury's style becomes florid and ...
... present day to be singularly lacking in breadth , depth , and solidity of content , but there can be no question of the clearness and grace of his presentation of it . Occasionally , to be sure , Shaftesbury's style becomes florid and ...
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... present day differ from Jeffrey mainly in emphasis , they recognize that Words- worth really had the defects which Jeffrey pointed out , and that they are grave . But in literature only the successes count , the failures fall away and ...
... present day differ from Jeffrey mainly in emphasis , they recognize that Words- worth really had the defects which Jeffrey pointed out , and that they are grave . But in literature only the successes count , the failures fall away and ...
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... present boke . In whiche booke 12 1 abode 2 poor authorized 4 certainty 5 tomb 6 no 7 where 8 pamphlets 9 lately 10 in 11 hand 12 the history 13 before 3 7 1 4 I had grete playsyr by - cause of the fayr and honest termes and wordes in ...
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Página 114 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Página 91 - In such condition, there is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain : and consequently no culture of the earth ; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building ; no instruments of moving, and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time ; no arts ; no letters ; no society ; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary,...
Página 254 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Página 49 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power ; both angels, and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Página 300 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order; judgement ever awake and steady self-possession, with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement...
Página 148 - To begin, then, with Shakespeare, He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 254 - Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom ; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. -But the age...
Página 278 - The principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect...
Página 185 - The Genius making me no answer, I turned me about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating; but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Página 183 - Upon a more leisurely Survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire Arches, with several broken Arches, which added to those that were entire, made up the Number about an hundred. As I was counting the Arches, the Genius told me that this Bridge consisted at first of a thousand Arches; but that a great Flood swept away the rest, and left the Bridge in the ruinous Condition I now beheld it: But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it.