A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and intr. sketches by R. DemausRobert Demaus 1859 |
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... thought ; redeemed , however , by many good features , which gave promise of the future excellence of our literature . HISTORICAL SKETCH Geoffrey Chaucer , born 1328 , died 1400 On the Choice of Friends born 1515 , died 1568 · 3 PAGE ...
... thought ; redeemed , however , by many good features , which gave promise of the future excellence of our literature . HISTORICAL SKETCH Geoffrey Chaucer , born 1328 , died 1400 On the Choice of Friends born 1515 , died 1568 · 3 PAGE ...
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... thought and ex- pression , though by no means destitute of redeeming qualities ; the second as one distinguished by grandeur of thought , not always , how- ever , equally sustained , and dignity of expression , not , however , exempt ...
... thought and ex- pression , though by no means destitute of redeeming qualities ; the second as one distinguished by grandeur of thought , not always , how- ever , equally sustained , and dignity of expression , not , however , exempt ...
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... thought and style to Chaucer and Gower , whom , indeed , he professedly recognises as his masters and models . Some ... thoughts of the nation . The only writer of eminence in the period was John Lydgate , who flourished during the first ...
... thought and style to Chaucer and Gower , whom , indeed , he professedly recognises as his masters and models . Some ... thoughts of the nation . The only writer of eminence in the period was John Lydgate , who flourished during the first ...
الصفحة 29
... thought ; but their earnestness , their familiarity , their terseness , their bold and uncompromising condemnation of wrong in all ranks , are worthy of one of the greatest of our Reformers , and fully explain the wonderful effect which ...
... thought ; but their earnestness , their familiarity , their terseness , their bold and uncompromising condemnation of wrong in all ranks , are worthy of one of the greatest of our Reformers , and fully explain the wonderful effect which ...
الصفحة 34
... thought good , but as the judg- ment of the commonwealth thought best . This fault of fathers bringeth many a blot with it , to the great deformity of the common- wealth . And here surely I can praise gentlewomen , which have always at ...
... thought good , but as the judg- ment of the commonwealth thought best . This fault of fathers bringeth many a blot with it , to the great deformity of the common- wealth . And here surely I can praise gentlewomen , which have always at ...
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الصفحة 195 - Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
الصفحة 80 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores.
الصفحة 177 - I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
الصفحة 79 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
الصفحة 126 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds : but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
الصفحة 324 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness, of the human race.
الصفحة 240 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.
الصفحة 110 - Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
الصفحة 71 - That which doth assign unto each thing the kind, that which doth moderate the force and power, that which doth appoint the form and measure, of working, the same we term a law.
الصفحة 463 - FOR there is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in Work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works : in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.