Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880).James Mercer Garnett Ginn, 1890 - 701 páginas |
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... admiration , that have such a ruler , or hir vertues to be honoured , that hath such royaltie : for such is their estat [ e ] ther [ e ] that I am enforced to think that every day is as lucky to the Englishmen , as the sixt day of ...
... admiration , that have such a ruler , or hir vertues to be honoured , that hath such royaltie : for such is their estat [ e ] ther [ e ] that I am enforced to think that every day is as lucky to the Englishmen , as the sixt day of ...
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... admiration , nothing inferiour to the gentle disposition of Aristides , who after his exile did not so much as note them that banished him , saying with Alexander that there can be nothing more noble then to doe well to those that ...
... admiration , nothing inferiour to the gentle disposition of Aristides , who after his exile did not so much as note them that banished him , saying with Alexander that there can be nothing more noble then to doe well to those that ...
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... admiration for hir curtesie , who in great pompe hath twice directed hir Prog- resse unto the Universities , with no lesse joye to the Students then glory to hir State . Where , after long and solempne disputations in Law , Phisicke ...
... admiration for hir curtesie , who in great pompe hath twice directed hir Prog- resse unto the Universities , with no lesse joye to the Students then glory to hir State . Where , after long and solempne disputations in Law , Phisicke ...
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... admiration : especially , sith he attributeth unto Poesie more then my selfe doe ; namely , to be a very inspiring of a divine force , farre above mans wit ; as in the aforenamed Dialogue is apparent . 16 Of the other side , who would ...
... admiration : especially , sith he attributeth unto Poesie more then my selfe doe ; namely , to be a very inspiring of a divine force , farre above mans wit ; as in the aforenamed Dialogue is apparent . 16 Of the other side , who would ...
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... admiration and commiseration , nor the right sportfulnes , is by their mungrell Tragy - comedie obtained . I know Apuleius did some - what so , but that is a thing recounted with space of time , not represented in one moment : and I ...
... admiration and commiseration , nor the right sportfulnes , is by their mungrell Tragy - comedie obtained . I know Apuleius did some - what so , but that is a thing recounted with space of time , not represented in one moment : and I ...
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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 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration Æneid Æsop ancient appear Aristotle beauty Ben Jonson better Cæsar called character Chaucer Christ Christian Church Cicero comedy Congreve critic death delight Demosthenes discourse divine doth drama effect eloquence English Epicurus excellent eyes 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
Passagens conhecidas
Página 133 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
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?
Página 124 - Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what the word did make it, That I believe, and take it.
Página 241 - 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 504 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth : — For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings; Carry them here and there ; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass...
Página 454 - There is, however, a circumstance attending these colonies, which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude o'f slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free, are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.
Página 169 - Time which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments. In vain we hope to be known by open and visible conservatories, when to be unknown was the means of their continuation, and obscurity their protection.
Página 359 - I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in him will I trust Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence...
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 546 - It is but lost labour that ye haste to rise up early, and so late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulness : for so he giveth his beloved sleep.