Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880).James Mercer Garnett Ginn, 1890 - 701 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 87
... could interrogate well touching beauty . He did by pleasures , as great Princes do by banquets , come and look a little 23 grave . 24 weighty . upon them , and turn away . For never Prince THE HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII . 87.
... could interrogate well touching beauty . He did by pleasures , as great Princes do by banquets , come and look a little 23 grave . 24 weighty . upon them , and turn away . For never Prince THE HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII . 87.
الصفحة 93
... a fool , no more than beauty will the blind , or music the deaf . As we should take care that our style in writing be neither dry nor empty ; we should look again it be not winding DISCOVERIES MADE UPON MEN AND MATTER . 93.
... a fool , no more than beauty will the blind , or music the deaf . As we should take care that our style in writing be neither dry nor empty ; we should look again it be not winding DISCOVERIES MADE UPON MEN AND MATTER . 93.
الصفحة 94
James Mercer Garnett. empty ; we should look again it be not winding , or wanton with far - fetched descriptions ; either is a vice . But that is worse which proceeds out of want , than that which riots out of plenty . The remedy of ...
James Mercer Garnett. empty ; we should look again it be not winding , or wanton with far - fetched descriptions ; either is a vice . But that is worse which proceeds out of want , than that which riots out of plenty . The remedy of ...
الصفحة 95
... look , pronunciation , motion , useth all these faculties at once : and if we can express this variety together , why should not divers studies , at divers hours , delight , when the variety is able alone to refresh and repair us ? As ...
... look , pronunciation , motion , useth all these faculties at once : and if we can express this variety together , why should not divers studies , at divers hours , delight , when the variety is able alone to refresh and repair us ? As ...
الصفحة 96
... look to bee - hives , rear sheep , and all other cattle at once ? It is easier to do many things and continue , than to do one thing long . It is not the passing through these learnings that hurts us , but the dwelling and sticking ...
... look to bee - hives , rear sheep , and all other cattle at once ? It is easier to do many things and continue , than to do one thing long . It is not the passing through these learnings that hurts us , but the dwelling and sticking ...
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الصفحة 133 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
الصفحة 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?
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.