English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various Writers, and General Introductions to Each Period, Volume 3Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1894 |
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... Truth and Trimmers 214 Concluding Considerations on the Character of Charles II . 215 On the Treatment of Children 217 SAMUEL PEPYS W. P. Ker 219 Sir C. Mings 222 PAGE The Fire Epsom Downs . ROBERT SOUTH The Happiness CONTENTS vii.
... Truth and Trimmers 214 Concluding Considerations on the Character of Charles II . 215 On the Treatment of Children 217 SAMUEL PEPYS W. P. Ker 219 Sir C. Mings 222 PAGE The Fire Epsom Downs . ROBERT SOUTH The Happiness CONTENTS vii.
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... Happiness of Adam Of the Light within us The Loss of Shame The ultima ratio of Belief THOMAS BURNET The Deluge Paradise The Conflagration EDWARD STILLINGFLEET . The Judgment of Fire . Fools make a Mock at Sin Knowledge and Names SIR ...
... Happiness of Adam Of the Light within us The Loss of Shame The ultima ratio of Belief THOMAS BURNET The Deluge Paradise The Conflagration EDWARD STILLINGFLEET . The Judgment of Fire . Fools make a Mock at Sin Knowledge and Names SIR ...
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... happiness . " Passages of this sort , however , are as uncommon in the prose essays as in the satires of Marvell . The Account of the Growth of Arbitrary Government is much less emphatic , and at the same time a more elaborate piece of ...
... happiness . " Passages of this sort , however , are as uncommon in the prose essays as in the satires of Marvell . The Account of the Growth of Arbitrary Government is much less emphatic , and at the same time a more elaborate piece of ...
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... happiness , and that sedate temper of mind , which is required for the search of it . The first step towards the cure of this pestilent evil is for many to join in one body , that every one may be protected by the united force of all ...
... happiness , and that sedate temper of mind , which is required for the search of it . The first step towards the cure of this pestilent evil is for many to join in one body , that every one may be protected by the united force of all ...
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... happiest discoveries in a new path , which all the wits were to tread for more than a century , and in which few ... happier pressure of form and finish . GEORGE SAINTSBURY . TEMPLE ON HIS WAY TO MUNSTER I NEVER travelled a SIR WILLIAM ...
... happiest discoveries in a new path , which all the wits were to tread for more than a century , and in which few ... happier pressure of form and finish . GEORGE SAINTSBURY . TEMPLE ON HIS WAY TO MUNSTER I NEVER travelled a SIR WILLIAM ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
admirable ancient appear beauty Ben Jonson better Bishop blank verse Burnet By-ends called character Charles II Christ Christian Church Church of England conscience conversation death desire discourse divine Dryden earth endeavour England Epicurus essays Euphuism father fire genius gentleman GEORGE SAINTSBURY give Halifax hand happiness hath heart honour humour imagination Isaac Barrow JOHN DRYDEN JOHN TILLOTSON judge judgment kind king lady language Latin learning less liberty literary live look Lord mankind manner Mansoul matter mind nature neighbour never observed occasion ourselves passions Pelasgi persons pleasure poet poetry political prince reason religion sense sermons soul speak spirit style tell temper thee things Thomas Burnet Thomas Ellwood THOMAS SHERLOCK thou thought Tillotson true truth verse virtue Whig whole words writings
Passagens conhecidas
Página 152 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 322 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? 275 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Página 161 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Página 526 - Alas ! ' said I, ' man was made in vain ; how is he given away to misery and mortality, tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! ' " The genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. ' Look no more,' said he, ' on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Página 425 - In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine ; When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six, It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, 'Pox take him and his wit!
Página 282 - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people ; saying with a loud voice ; Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters.
Página 525 - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Página 224 - Everybody endeavouring to remove their goods, and flinging into the river or bringing them into lighters that lay off; poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them, and then running into boats, or clambering from one pair of stairs by the water-side to another.
Página 542 - Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me : for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Página 165 - What Virgil wrote in the vigour of his age, in plenty and at ease, I have undertaken to translate in my declining years; struggling with wants, oppressed with sickness, curbed in my genius, liable to be misconstrued in all I write...