English Prose: Selections, المجلد 2Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1894 This collection shows the growth and development of English prose by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers. |
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Æsop affection amongst ancient Areopagitica authority Basilikon Doron believe Ben Jonson better Bishop body called cause Christ Christian Church Church of England common commonwealth conscience court death delight Democritic desire discourse divine doth doubt Earl Earl of Strafford earth England English Episcopacy essay Euphuism eyes faith favour fear fortune friends GEORGE SAINTSBURY give hand happy hath heaven Holy honour Hudibras humour Jeremy Taylor judgment justice Kenelm Digby king king's kingdom Latin learning less liberty literary live Long Parliament Lord majesty matter means Milton mind nature never opinion Overbury Owthorpe parliament peace person present prince prose Puritan Queen reason Religio Medici religion Scotland Scripture sermons Smectymnuus soul speak spirit style thee Theophrastus things thou thought tion true truth unto verse virtue wherein whereof whole words writings
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الصفحة 452 - I was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
الصفحة 310 - 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 518 - I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
الصفحة x - Yea, but he hath a great charge of children; as if it were an abatement to his riches. But the most ordinary cause of a single life, is liberty, especially in certain selfpleasing and humorous minds, which are so sensible of every restraint, as they will go near to think their girdles and garters, to be bonds and shackles.
الصفحة 520 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
الصفحة 325 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased.
الصفحة 197 - Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same is consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withall.
الصفحة 310 - Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests ; what prince can promise such diuturnity unto his relics, or might not gladly say, " Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim.
الصفحة 382 - I am persuaded his power and interest, at that time, was greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time ; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them.
الصفحة 464 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.