Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880).James Mercer Garnett Ginn, 1890 - 701 стор. |
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... [ Written in 1580. ] BUT having entreated1 sufficiently of the countrey and their conditions , let me come to the Glasse I promised , being the court , where , although I should , as order requireth , beginne with the chiefest , yet I am ...
... [ Written in 1580. ] BUT having entreated1 sufficiently of the countrey and their conditions , let me come to the Glasse I promised , being the court , where , although I should , as order requireth , beginne with the chiefest , yet I am ...
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... [ Written about 1581. ] SITH ' then Poetrie is of all humane learning the most auncient , and of most fatherly antiquitie , as from whence other learnings have taken theyr beginnings : sith it is so universall that no learned Nation dooth ...
... [ Written about 1581. ] SITH ' then Poetrie is of all humane learning the most auncient , and of most fatherly antiquitie , as from whence other learnings have taken theyr beginnings : sith it is so universall that no learned Nation dooth ...
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... written in great Letters upon an olde doore , doth beleeve that it is Thebes ? If then , a man can arrive at that childs age , to know 7 Use of without as conjunction , now incorrect . that the Poets persons and dooings are but pictures ...
... written in great Letters upon an olde doore , doth beleeve that it is Thebes ? If then , a man can arrive at that childs age , to know 7 Use of without as conjunction , now incorrect . that the Poets persons and dooings are but pictures ...
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... written , than writing things fitte to be done . What that before tyme was , I thinke scarcely Sphinx can tell : Sith no memory is so auncient that hath the precedence of Poetrie . And certaine it is , that in our plainest homelines ...
... written , than writing things fitte to be done . What that before tyme was , I thinke scarcely Sphinx can tell : Sith no memory is so auncient that hath the precedence of Poetrie . And certaine it is , that in our plainest homelines ...
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... written ? Plutarch teacheth the use to be gathered of them , and how if they should not be read ? And who reades Plutarchs eyther historie or philosophy , shall finde hee trymmeth both theyr gar- ments with gards of Poesie . But I list ...
... written ? Plutarch teacheth the use to be gathered of them , and how if they should not be read ? And who reades Plutarchs eyther historie or philosophy , shall finde hee trymmeth both theyr gar- ments with gards of Poesie . But I list ...
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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.