English Prose: Selections, Volume 4Sir 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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Página 10
... admiration , apart from all the other attributes of his genius . It seems strange in regard to Fielding to set aside all the wealth of human sympathy , all the range of humour , all the vividness of character - drawing , and to restrict ...
... admiration , apart from all the other attributes of his genius . It seems strange in regard to Fielding to set aside all the wealth of human sympathy , all the range of humour , all the vividness of character - drawing , and to restrict ...
Página 90
... admiration of him is , I own , turned into aston- ishment . There is no one kind of writing in which he has not excelled . You are so severe a classic , that I question whether you will allow me to call his Henriade an epic poem , for ...
... admiration of him is , I own , turned into aston- ishment . There is no one kind of writing in which he has not excelled . You are so severe a classic , that I question whether you will allow me to call his Henriade an epic poem , for ...
Página 110
... admiration on the acuteness and ( within certain limits ) the profundity of his general observations on human life and nature ; others on his irony - a gift in which among English writers he is only excelled by Swift and only approached ...
... admiration on the acuteness and ( within certain limits ) the profundity of his general observations on human life and nature ; others on his irony - a gift in which among English writers he is only excelled by Swift and only approached ...
Página 135
... admiration ; written with the ease and vigour of one who drew only from his own resources of wide reading , bold and incisive critical faculty , and abundant humour , and who scorned the humbler methods of careful and minute research ...
... admiration ; written with the ease and vigour of one who drew only from his own resources of wide reading , bold and incisive critical faculty , and abundant humour , and who scorned the humbler methods of careful and minute research ...
Página 140
... admiration , it may be permitted to point to passages , to be found even amongst the scanty selections that follow , which may fitly take rank amongst the most consummate and perfect specimens of English prose , clothing thoughts of ...
... admiration , it may be permitted to point to passages , to be found even amongst the scanty selections that follow , which may fitly take rank amongst the most consummate and perfect specimens of English prose , clothing thoughts of ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Adam Smith admiration ancient appear authority Battle of Hastings beauty Burke called character Church civil common constitution CONYERS MIDDLETON cried criticism David Hume dear death Dugald Stewart 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 learning less letters liberty literary lived look Lord mankind manner means ment merit Michael Angelo mind moral nation nature never object observed opinion passions perhaps person philosophy poet poetry political principles prose reason religion rendered Scotland seemed sense sentiments society speak spirit style suppose taste temper things Thomas Warton thought Tibbs tion truth uncle Toby virtue Warren Hastings whole words write
Passagens conhecidas
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.