Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time: with an IntroductionH. G. Bohn, 1825 - 615 páginas |
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... judgment corrected , and his power of expression enlarged ; and that he will be led in riper years to examine for himself those treasures of original thought and eloquent diction , in which the English language , above all others ...
... judgment corrected , and his power of expression enlarged ; and that he will be led in riper years to examine for himself those treasures of original thought and eloquent diction , in which the English language , above all others ...
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... judgment and eloquent expression , which , in the opinion of the ancients , formed a complete individual ; this may be justly pro- posed to the attention of the young . In this view they cannot better employ their time , than in study ...
... judgment and eloquent expression , which , in the opinion of the ancients , formed a complete individual ; this may be justly pro- posed to the attention of the young . In this view they cannot better employ their time , than in study ...
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... judgment and feeling , which belong to the English character , are derived from these elevated sources ? Their decisive influence upon our language is incontrovertible : they fixed it at the soundest , the most healthy period of its ...
... judgment and feeling , which belong to the English character , are derived from these elevated sources ? Their decisive influence upon our language is incontrovertible : they fixed it at the soundest , the most healthy period of its ...
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... judgment . But in every sentence there are other pauses of inde- finite place and duration , and words of peculiar emphasis , which materially affect the sense and deter- mine the exact intention of the author . It is the excellence of ...
... judgment . But in every sentence there are other pauses of inde- finite place and duration , and words of peculiar emphasis , which materially affect the sense and deter- mine the exact intention of the author . It is the excellence of ...
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... all critical opinion must be formed . To understand the propriety of this standard , we must distinguish the momentary applause of the multitude from the deliberate and permanent judgment of man- kind . xxxiv INTRODUCTION .
... all critical opinion must be formed . To understand the propriety of this standard , we must distinguish the momentary applause of the multitude from the deliberate and permanent judgment of man- kind . xxxiv INTRODUCTION .
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actions Æneid Æschylus affections Alciphron amongst ancient angels apostle Aristotle atheism beauty behold Ben Jonson body Capaneus cause character Chimæras Christ Christian church consider creatures Crito death delight desire discourse divine doth earth endeavour epic poem error eternity Euph Euphranor evil excellent expression eyes faculties fancy father fear give glory God's grace happy hath heart heaven holy Homer honour hope human Iliad imagination imitation infinite judgment Juvenal kind King knowledge labour language learning live look Lord man's mankind manner matter metaphysical poets mind moral nation nature never object observed opinion Ovid passions perfection persons philosophy Plato pleasure poem poet poetry principles racter reason religion saith sense Shakspeare shew sins Sophocles sorrow soul spirit thereof things thou thought tion truth unto Virgil virtue wherein whole Wicliffe wisdom wise words writers
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Página 87 - Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy, and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
Página 199 - I am now indented ; as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her siren daughters : but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Página 12 - But he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the wellenchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner, and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue...
Página 451 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim: Th' unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Página 89 - HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Página 61 - Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and insolent that they are but Abjects, and humbles them at the instant; makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepassed happiness.
Página 88 - To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business : it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature ; and that mixture of falsehood is like allay in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent ; which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover...
Página 196 - John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn scenes and acts with a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies : and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm.
Página 88 - For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore...
Página 86 - What is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness ; and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.