Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880).James Mercer Garnett Ginn, 1890 - 701 páginas |
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... perhaps , will criticise omissions ; others , inclusions . Reasons might be given for the choice of the authors and pieces selected , but it would prolong this Preface to too great length . I should have been glad to include more ...
... perhaps , will criticise omissions ; others , inclusions . Reasons might be given for the choice of the authors and pieces selected , but it would prolong this Preface to too great length . I should have been glad to include more ...
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... there is nothing to bee added , that either man would wish in a woman , or God doth give to a creature . 26 mistakes . 27 herself : perhaps hir omitted in Arber's text . I let passe hir skill in Musicke , hir knowledg 20 JOHN LYLY .
... there is nothing to bee added , that either man would wish in a woman , or God doth give to a creature . 26 mistakes . 27 herself : perhaps hir omitted in Arber's text . I let passe hir skill in Musicke , hir knowledg 20 JOHN LYLY .
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... the Campes . 11 Bid him be foolish willingly . Perhaps after HORACE , Satires , I. 1. 63 : — Jubeas miserum esse , libenter Quatenus id facit . I dare undertake , Orlando Furioso , or honest King AN APOLOGIE FOR POETRIE . 31.
... the Campes . 11 Bid him be foolish willingly . Perhaps after HORACE , Satires , I. 1. 63 : — Jubeas miserum esse , libenter Quatenus id facit . I dare undertake , Orlando Furioso , or honest King AN APOLOGIE FOR POETRIE . 31.
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... perhaps by the same occasion . Howbeit not this 10 the only kind of regiment that hath been received in the world . The inconveniences of one kind have caused sundry other to be devised . So that in a word all public regiment of what ...
... perhaps by the same occasion . Howbeit not this 10 the only kind of regiment that hath been received in the world . The inconveniences of one kind have caused sundry other to be devised . So that in a word all public regiment of what ...
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... perhaps shall come nearest the truth , that fetch not their reasons so far off ; but rather impute it to nature , age , peace , and a mind fixed upon no other ambition or pursuit . Whereunto I should 19 explanations . 18 relieve them ...
... perhaps shall come nearest the truth , that fetch not their reasons so far off ; but rather impute it to nature , age , peace , and a mind fixed upon no other ambition or pursuit . Whereunto I should 19 explanations . 18 relieve them ...
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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 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.