Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...J. Bumpus, 1813 |
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... matters . And yet are there of them which make themselves full busy , and are as ready to tell that they know not , as that that they know , according as they feel their affec- tions disposed whom they covet to please ; by which means ...
... matters . And yet are there of them which make themselves full busy , and are as ready to tell that they know not , as that that they know , according as they feel their affec- tions disposed whom they covet to please ; by which means ...
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... matter . Another chops in with English Italianated , and applieth the Italian phrase to our English speaking ; the which is , as if an oration that professeth to utter his mind in plain Latin , would needs speak poetry , and far ...
... matter . Another chops in with English Italianated , and applieth the Italian phrase to our English speaking ; the which is , as if an oration that professeth to utter his mind in plain Latin , would needs speak poetry , and far ...
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... matters , hardy to revenge and fearful to lose his high estate , trusty to none , loto liberal for a purpose , casting still the worst , and hoping ever for the best . By this figure also , we imagine a talk for some one to speak , and ...
... matters , hardy to revenge and fearful to lose his high estate , trusty to none , loto liberal for a purpose , casting still the worst , and hoping ever for the best . By this figure also , we imagine a talk for some one to speak , and ...
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... matter , he says , " They that can lively tell pleasant tales and merry deeds doen , and set them out as well with gesture as with voice , leaving nothing behind that may serve for beautifying of their matter , are most meet for this ...
... matter , he says , " They that can lively tell pleasant tales and merry deeds doen , and set them out as well with gesture as with voice , leaving nothing behind that may serve for beautifying of their matter , are most meet for this ...
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... matter to make good sport , and fora need would dub him knight of the round table , dredse proye him to be one of his kin , or else ( which were much ) prove him to be Arthur himself . And so likewise of other names merry panions 1 ...
... matter to make good sport , and fora need would dub him knight of the round table , dredse proye him to be one of his kin , or else ( which were much ) prove him to be Arthur himself . And so likewise of other names merry panions 1 ...
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Сторінка 312 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Сторінка 151 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting skill of music; and with a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
Сторінка 311 - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession...
Сторінка 399 - Language most shewes a man: speake that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired, and inmost parts of us, and is the Image of the Parent of it, the mind. No glasse renders a mans forme, or likenesse, so true as his speech.
Сторінка 223 - Neither, by my consent, shalt thou train them up in wars; for he that sets up his rest to live by that profession, can hardly be an honest man or a good Christian...
Сторінка 274 - My lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage ; but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.
Сторінка 222 - Nor choose a base and uncomely creature altogether for wealth ; for it will cause contempt in others and loathing in thee.
Сторінка 394 - Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. But we must not be too frequent with the mint, every day coining. Nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages ; since the chief virtue of a style is perspicuity, and nothing so vicious in it as to need an interpreter.
Сторінка 460 - ... quietness sake : just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat ; if every man should buy, or if there were many buyers, they would never agree ; one would buy what the other liked not, or what the other had bought before ; so there would be a confusion. But that charge being committed to one, he, according to his discretion, pleases all ; if they have not what they would have one day, they shall have it the next, or something as good.
Сторінка 147 - There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees : humble valleys whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers ; meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers ; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so...