Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880).James Mercer Garnett Ginn, 1891 - 701 páginas |
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James Mercer Garnett. tains fifty - six authors , and the selections are of greater length ; but some of the authors might be omitted without much loss , and some of the selections here also are too short . I wished , moreover , to suit ...
James Mercer Garnett. tains fifty - six authors , and the selections are of greater length ; but some of the authors might be omitted without much loss , and some of the selections here also are too short . I wished , moreover , to suit ...
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... greater proofe then experience . Besides they have al [ 1 ] a ze [ a ] lous care for the encreasing of true religion , whose faiths for the most part hath bin [ beene ] tried through the fire , which they had felt , had not they fledde ...
... greater proofe then experience . Besides they have al [ 1 ] a ze [ a ] lous care for the encreasing of true religion , whose faiths for the most part hath bin [ beene ] tried through the fire , which they had felt , had not they fledde ...
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... greater your curtesie should be , that you ought to be as farre from pride , as you are from povertie , and as neere to princes in beautie , as you are in brightnes . Bicause you are brave , disdaine not those that are base ; thinke ...
... greater your curtesie should be , that you ought to be as farre from pride , as you are from povertie , and as neere to princes in beautie , as you are in brightnes . Bicause you are brave , disdaine not those that are base ; thinke ...
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... greater pleasure they take to heare of love , then to be in love . Heere Ladies is a Glasse that will make you blush for shame , and looke wan for anger ; their beautie commeth by nature , yours by art ; they encrease their favours with ...
... greater pleasure they take to heare of love , then to be in love . Heere Ladies is a Glasse that will make you blush for shame , and looke wan for anger ; their beautie commeth by nature , yours by art ; they encrease their favours with ...
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... greater desire to them to consumate them , and to others to see them : so the Elizabeth of Euphues , being but shadowed for others to vernish , but begun for others to ende , but drawen with a blacke coale , for others to blaze with a ...
... greater desire to them to consumate them , and to others to see them : so the Elizabeth of Euphues , being but shadowed for others to vernish , but begun for others to ende , but drawen with a blacke coale , for others to blaze with a ...
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Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880). James Mercer Garnett Visualização integral - 1892 |
Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880) James Mercer Garnett Visualização integral - 1902 |
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admiration Æneid Æsop ancient appear Aristotle beauty Ben Jonson better called character Chaucer Christ Christian Church Cicero comedy Congreve critic death delight Demosthenes discourse divine doth drama effect eloquence English excellent eyes favour French genius give Greece Greek hath heart honour human humour Iliad imagination imitation Johnson judgment Julius Cæsar kind King labour lady language laws learning Leigh Hunt less live look Lord Lord Shaftesbury manner matter mean ment mind modern moral nation nature never noble observed opinion Paradise Lost passion perhaps person Phalaris Pindar Plato Plautus play pleasure poet poetry Prince Quintilian reader reason religion Shakspeare shew Silent Woman Sir Roger sith soul speak spirit style sufferings things thou thought tion truth unto verse Virgil virtue wherein whole words writing
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Página 130 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Página 141 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? "And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Página 361 - Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, And under his wings shalt thou trust : His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
Página 174 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature.
Página 132 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Página 532 - Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours: For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Página 598 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night.
Página 128 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 456 - The church of England too was formed from her cradle under the nursing care of regular government. But the dissenting interests have sprung up in direct opposition to all the ordinary powers of the world ; and could justify that opposition only on a strong claim to natural liberty. Their very existence depended on the powerful and unremitted assertion of that claim. All protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is...
Página 459 - Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all ; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.