Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880).James Mercer Garnett Ginn, 1890 - 701 стор. |
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... beginning earlier ; but the middle of the reign of Elizabeth was , I think , the begin- ning of the formation of an English prose style , as it was the beginning of our modern poetry and drama , for Lyly's Euphucs was contemporary with ...
... beginning earlier ; but the middle of the reign of Elizabeth was , I think , the begin- ning of the formation of an English prose style , as it was the beginning of our modern poetry and drama , for Lyly's Euphucs was contemporary with ...
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... beginning of the world , then for a young and tender Maiden to govern strong and valiaunt menne , then for a Virgin to make the whole worlde , if not to stand in awe of hir , yet to honour hir , yea and to live in spight of all those ...
... beginning of the world , then for a young and tender Maiden to govern strong and valiaunt menne , then for a Virgin to make the whole worlde , if not to stand in awe of hir , yet to honour hir , yea and to live in spight of all those ...
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... beginnings : sith it is so universall that no learned Nation dooth despise it , nor no barbarous Nation is without it : sith both Roman and Greek gave divine names unto it : the one of prophecying , the other of making . And that ...
... beginnings : sith it is so universall that no learned Nation dooth despise it , nor no barbarous Nation is without it : sith both Roman and Greek gave divine names unto it : the one of prophecying , the other of making . And that ...
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... beginning , even Turks and Tartares are delighted with Poets . Homer , a Greek , florished before Greece florished . And if to a slight conjecture , a conjecture may be opposed : truly it may seeme that , as by him their learned men ...
... beginning , even Turks and Tartares are delighted with Poets . Homer , a Greek , florished before Greece florished . And if to a slight conjecture , a conjecture may be opposed : truly it may seeme that , as by him their learned men ...
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... beginning to spurne at their guides , like ungrateful Prentises , were not content to set up shops for themselves , but sought by all meanes to discredit their maisters . Which by the force of delight beeing barred them , the lesse they ...
... beginning to spurne at their guides , like ungrateful Prentises , were not content to set up shops for themselves , but sought by all meanes to discredit their maisters . Which by the force of delight beeing barred them , the lesse they ...
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Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880). James Mercer Garnett Повний перегляд - 1892 |
Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880) James Mercer Garnett Повний перегляд - 1902 |
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Сторінка 133 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Сторінка 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?
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.