English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various Writers, and General Introductions to Each Period, Band 4Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1895 This collection shows the growth and development of English prose by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers. |
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... never forgets his books . The simplicity is the effect of the highest art ; his narrative impresses us because it is arranged with the skill of a trained thinker , who never allows his induction to be slovenly or inexact , who knows ...
... never forgets his books . The simplicity is the effect of the highest art ; his narrative impresses us because it is arranged with the skill of a trained thinker , who never allows his induction to be slovenly or inexact , who knows ...
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... never mine ; and I cannot be charged with deserting what I had never professed . Be so good , sir , as to favour me with some account of this matter . I have a right , I think , to require at least this satisfac- tion . You are the only ...
... never mine ; and I cannot be charged with deserting what I had never professed . Be so good , sir , as to favour me with some account of this matter . I have a right , I think , to require at least this satisfac- tion . You are the only ...
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... never dull or dry ; a felicity of ornament and illustration which never condescends to the merely popular or trivial , and is never used to cloak controversial feebleness ; an incapacity of petulance , and an omnipresence of good ...
... never dull or dry ; a felicity of ornament and illustration which never condescends to the merely popular or trivial , and is never used to cloak controversial feebleness ; an incapacity of petulance , and an omnipresence of good ...
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... never had any existence , not even in the imagination . But say you , it sounds very harsh to say we eat and drink ideas , and are clothed with ideas . I acknowledge it does so , the word idea not being used in common discourse to ...
... never had any existence , not even in the imagination . But say you , it sounds very harsh to say we eat and drink ideas , and are clothed with ideas . I acknowledge it does so , the word idea not being used in common discourse to ...
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... marked high churchman and nonjuror , and , indeed , never lost his sympathies in that direction to the end of his life , though they were certainly crossed by another influence in his later years . There were of WILLIAM.
... marked high churchman and nonjuror , and , indeed , never lost his sympathies in that direction to the end of his life , though they were certainly crossed by another influence in his later years . There were of WILLIAM.
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
absurd Adam Smith admiration ancient appear Battle of Hastings beauty Burke called character Church civil common conversation cried criticism David Garrick David Hume Duke of Bedford effect endeavour England English eyes father favour Frances Burney genius GEORGE SAINTSBURY give grace hand happiness heart honour Horace Walpole human humour ideas imagination imitation Johnson Jonathan Wild kind labour lady language 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 perhaps person philosophy poet poetry political present principles prose reason religion Scotland seemed sense sentiments society spirit style suppose taste temper things Thomas Warton thought tion Tom Jones truth uncle Toby virtue whole words write
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 497 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Seite 450 - 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.
Seite 44 - 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.
Seite 53 - 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...
Seite 170 - But the knowledge of nature is only half the task of a poet : he must be acquainted likewise with all the modes of life. His character requires that he estimate the happiness and misery of every condition, observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the despondence of decrepitude.
Seite 379 - 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...
Seite 584 - A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep...
Seite 365 - 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.
Seite 76 - 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.
Seite 191 - Most fortunately it happens, that since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of back-gammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends ; and when after three or four hours...