English Prose (1137-1890)John Matthews Manly Ginn, 1909 - 544 páginas |
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Página iv
... able to understand grace or beauty of form in literature . And certainly , if , as Spenser tells us , Soul is form and doth the body make , - we must understand the soul , the content , and aim , of a piece of literature before we can ...
... able to understand grace or beauty of form in literature . And certainly , if , as Spenser tells us , Soul is form and doth the body make , - we must understand the soul , the content , and aim , of a piece of literature before we can ...
Página xvii
... able opportunity for lyrical movements in prose ending in minor cadences , may admit of discussion . Certainly one hears even in the most soaring strains of his eloquence the ground tone of the futility and vanity of life . SIR WILLIAM ...
... able opportunity for lyrical movements in prose ending in minor cadences , may admit of discussion . Certainly one hears even in the most soaring strains of his eloquence the ground tone of the futility and vanity of life . SIR WILLIAM ...
Página 30
... reasoning and dysputyng upon the temporall lawes of the citie , which would not be reasoned upon but by folke mete 1 able 2 forbidden 3 experience • since therfore and in place convenient . For elles they that 30 SIR THOMAS MORE.
... reasoning and dysputyng upon the temporall lawes of the citie , which would not be reasoned upon but by folke mete 1 able 2 forbidden 3 experience • since therfore and in place convenient . For elles they that 30 SIR THOMAS MORE.
Página 31
... able 5 then 2 in and the witte out , woulde they take upon them with foolish wordes and blasphemie to handle Holie Scripture in more homely maner than a song of Robin Hode . And some would , as I said , solemnely take upon them like as ...
... able 5 then 2 in and the witte out , woulde they take upon them with foolish wordes and blasphemie to handle Holie Scripture in more homely maner than a song of Robin Hode . And some would , as I said , solemnely take upon them like as ...
Página 37
... able to by him bokes , nor geve hys neyghboure dryncke , al the great gaine goeth another way . My father was a Yoman , and had no landes of his owne , onlye he had a farme of .iii . or .iiii . pound by yere at the uttermost , and here ...
... able to by him bokes , nor geve hys neyghboure dryncke , al the great gaine goeth another way . My father was a Yoman , and had no landes of his owne , onlye he had a farme of .iii . or .iiii . pound by yere at the uttermost , and here ...
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Æsop atheism ayen beauty better Bingley brother called cause child death doth dyvers England English erthe eyes fair fancy father fear forto fortune Ganimede gentleman give gudesire hand hath hear heard heart heaven honour human kind king kyng labour lady learning live London look Lord Lord Steyne Lucan Mabinogion manner master ment mind moche Mordred nature never noble Palladius pass passions persons play pleasure poems poet poor prince prose quod quoth Rawdon reason Redgauntlet Rhodope Rosader Rosalynde sayd sche shal ship soul speak speke spirit Surius swerde Syr Bedwere tell thanne thee ther thet things thou thought tion took truth uncle Toby unto virtue whan wherein wolde words writing wyll young
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Página 274 - 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 57 - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end, 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...
Página 95 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 128 - As therefore the state of man now is; what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Página 298 - 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 121 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother-dialect only.
Página 94 - Which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who chose that circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted; and to justify mine own candour: for I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Página 317 - In this idea originated the plan of the " Lyrical Ballads ;" in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic ; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Página 320 - The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination.
Página 298 - ... above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.