English Prose: Selections, Volumen3Sir 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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... taken any prominent part in the church life of the period . According to Burnet he was " a much better divine than bishop " ; but Burnet's evidence must be accepted with caution , for the two men differed widely from one another , not ...
... taken any prominent part in the church life of the period . According to Burnet he was " a much better divine than bishop " ; but Burnet's evidence must be accepted with caution , for the two men differed widely from one another , not ...
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... taken fire and attacked the White Tower , where the magazine of powder lay , would undoubtedly not only have beaten down and destroyed all the bridge , but sunk and torn the vessels in the river , and rendered the demolition beyond all ...
... taken fire and attacked the White Tower , where the magazine of powder lay , would undoubtedly not only have beaten down and destroyed all the bridge , but sunk and torn the vessels in the river , and rendered the demolition beyond all ...
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Selections Sir Henry Craik. she had , ere the Dutch war was ended , taken as much money from privateers as would have laden her ; and that more such being built did in a year or two scour the Channel from those of Dunkirk and others ...
Selections Sir Henry Craik. she had , ere the Dutch war was ended , taken as much money from privateers as would have laden her ; and that more such being built did in a year or two scour the Channel from those of Dunkirk and others ...
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... taken so many things that rather did it harm than good ) only longed for some moderation , and as soon as it had tasted this , seemed to itself sensibly to recover ; when their representatives in Parliament had been of ANDREW MARVELL 37.
... taken so many things that rather did it harm than good ) only longed for some moderation , and as soon as it had tasted this , seemed to itself sensibly to recover ; when their representatives in Parliament had been of ANDREW MARVELL 37.
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... taken while Belshazzar lay drunk amongst his whores . The empire was transported to the Persians and Grecians by the valour of Cyrus , Alexander , and the brave armies that followed them . Histories furnish us with innumerable examples ...
... taken while Belshazzar lay drunk amongst his whores . The empire was transported to the Persians and Grecians by the valour of Cyrus , Alexander , and the brave armies that followed them . Histories furnish us with innumerable examples ...
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Página 152 - ... you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid, his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when...
Página 161 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them.
Página 152 - 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.
Página 316 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? 275 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Página 544 - His death and passion: and grant, that the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, may effectually teach and persuade me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...
Página 419 - In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine ; When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six, It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, 'Pox take him and his wit!
Página 280 - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people ; saying with a loud voice ; Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters.
Página 519 - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Página 366 - I came home to my fortification, not feeling, as we say, the ground I went on, but terrified to the last degree, looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man...
Página 512 - As soon as the house was full, and the candles lighted, my old friend stood up, and looked about him with that pleasure which a mind seasoned with humanity naturally feels in itself, at the sight of a multitude of people who seem pleased with one another, and partake of the same common entertainment.