A Century of English Essays: An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson, & the Writers of Our TimeJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1915 - 474 من الصفحات |
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... universal world , into the number of the nine best and worthy of whom was first , the noble Arthur , whose noble acts I purpose to write in this present book here following ; the second was Charle- magne , or Charles the Great , of whom ...
... universal world , into the number of the nine best and worthy of whom was first , the noble Arthur , whose noble acts I purpose to write in this present book here following ; the second was Charle- magne , or Charles the Great , of whom ...
الصفحة 3
... present book and work , that they take the good and honest acts in their remem- brance , and follow the same . Wherein they shall find many joyous and pleasant histories , and the noble and renowned acts of humanity , gentleness , and ...
... present book and work , that they take the good and honest acts in their remem- brance , and follow the same . Wherein they shall find many joyous and pleasant histories , and the noble and renowned acts of humanity , gentleness , and ...
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... present life ? And for what cause or encheson joineth he him , or knitteth he him so fast unto his goods , that all his wits mowen not disseveren him or departen him fro his goods , and knoweth well , or ought to know , that when he is ...
... present life ? And for what cause or encheson joineth he him , or knitteth he him so fast unto his goods , that all his wits mowen not disseveren him or departen him fro his goods , and knoweth well , or ought to know , that when he is ...
الصفحة 23
... 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 subtile ; natural philo- sophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able ...
... 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 subtile ; natural philo- sophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able ...
الصفحة 24
... present fortune , till they can provide a new one , and betake themselves to some more gainful calling . Thirdly , they are disheartened from doing their best with the miser- able reward which in some places they receive , being masters ...
... present fortune , till they can provide a new one , and betake themselves to some more gainful calling . Thirdly , they are disheartened from doing their best with the miser- able reward which in some places they receive , being masters ...
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acquaintance admiration appear beauty better body called character conversation Country Court death delight Demosthenes discommending discourse dream E. V. Lucas eyes face fancy father feel fences of shame followed fortune Friend Sir ROGER G. K. Chesterton garden Gentleman give hand happy hath head hear heard heart Honour human Humour imagination James Miller Jeems kind Lady laugh learned Lebanon living look looking-glass Lord Macbeth manner Master mind morning nature never night object observed occasion once passion person play pleased pleasure poor present pretty Pyrrhus remember rich ROGER DE COVERLEY round saith Samuel Johnson seemed seen sense Servants side Sir Richard Baker soul speak spirit talk Tatler tell thee things thou thought tion told town turned W. B. Yeats whole woman word young
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الصفحة xiii - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
الصفحة 164 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
الصفحة 189 - MANKIND, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M. was obliging enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, clawing or biting it from the living animal, just as they do in Abyssinia to this day. This period is not obscurely hinted at by their great Confucius in the second chapter of his Mundane Mutations, where he designates a kind of golden age by the term Cho-fang, literally the Cooks
الصفحة 295 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
الصفحة 180 - ... by herself in a lone chamber of the great lone house; and how she believed that an apparition of two infants was to be seen at midnight gliding up and down the great staircase near where she slept, but she said, "those innocents would do her no harm...
الصفحة 183 - I seem to remember having been told, that a bad sweep was once left in a stack with his brush, to indicate which way the wind blew. It was an awful spectacle certainly ; not much unlike the old stage direction in Macbeth, where the "Apparition of a child crowned with a tree in his hand rises.
الصفحة 1 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.
الصفحة xiii - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
الصفحة 305 - Praise ye him, all his angels : Praise ye him, all his hosts. Praise ye him, sun and moon : Praise him, all ye stars of light.
الصفحة 73 - Some of them could not refrain from tears at the sight of their old master ; every one of them pressed forward to do something for him, and seemed discouraged if they were not employed.