Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880).James Mercer Garnett Ginn, 1891 - 701 páginas |
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... better able to amende it , or in all ( if none can worke it ) a wil [ 1 ] to wish it . In the meane season I say as Zeuxis did when he had drawen the picture of Atalanta , more wil envie me then imitate me , and not com- mende it though ...
... better able to amende it , or in all ( if none can worke it ) a wil [ 1 ] to wish it . In the meane season I say as Zeuxis did when he had drawen the picture of Atalanta , more wil envie me then imitate me , and not com- mende it though ...
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... better spend his tyme in them , then in this . Secondly , that it is the mother of lyes . Thirdly , that it is the Nurse of abuse , infecting us with many pestilent desires with a Syrens sweetness drawing the mind to the Ser- pents ...
... better spend his tyme in them , then in this . Secondly , that it is the mother of lyes . Thirdly , that it is the Nurse of abuse , infecting us with many pestilent desires with a Syrens sweetness drawing the mind to the Ser- pents ...
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... better hidden matters . But what , shall the abuse of a thing make the right use odious ? Nay truely , though I yeeld that Poesie may not onely be abused , but that beeing abused , by the reason of his sweete charming force , it can doe ...
... better hidden matters . But what , shall the abuse of a thing make the right use odious ? Nay truely , though I yeeld that Poesie may not onely be abused , but that beeing abused , by the reason of his sweete charming force , it can doe ...
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... better purpose ) hath rather be troubled in the net with Mars , then enjoy the homelie quiet of Vulcan : so serves it for a peece of a reason , why they are lesse gratefull to idle England , which nowe can scarce endure the payne of a ...
... better purpose ) hath rather be troubled in the net with Mars , then enjoy the homelie quiet of Vulcan : so serves it for a peece of a reason , why they are lesse gratefull to idle England , which nowe can scarce endure the payne of a ...
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... better to be rich , than wise , virtuous , and religious . If we be both or either of these , it is not because we are so born . For into the world we come as empty of the one as of the other , as naked in mind as we are in body . Both ...
... better to be rich , than wise , virtuous , and religious . If we be both or either of these , it is not because we are so born . For into the world we come as empty of the one as of the other , as naked in mind as we are in body . Both ...
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Página 130 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Página 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? "And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Página 361 - Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, And under his wings shalt thou trust : His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
Página 174 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature.
Página 132 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Página 532 - Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours: For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Página 598 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night.
Página 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.
Página 456 - The church of England too was formed from her cradle under the nursing care of regular government. But the dissenting interests have sprung up in direct opposition to all the ordinary powers of the world ; and could justify that opposition only on a strong claim to natural liberty. Their very existence depended on the powerful and unremitted assertion of that claim. All protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is...
Página 459 - Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all ; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.