Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ... George Burnett. LENOX LIS NEW YORK W. Pople , Printer , 22 , Old Boswell Court , Strand . OF VOL . II . Gardiner ( Bishop of Winchester.
... the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ... George Burnett. LENOX LIS NEW YORK W. Pople , Printer , 22 , Old Boswell Court , Strand . OF VOL . II . Gardiner ( Bishop of Winchester.
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... ( Bishop of Winchester ) The Complaynt of Scotland Sir William Barlowe ( Bishop of Bath and Wells ) Sir John Cheke Wilson Grafton Roger Ascham For Holinshed Sir Philip Sidney Spencer Sir Walter Ralegh Lilly Cecil ( Lord Burleigh ) Stow ...
... ( Bishop of Winchester ) The Complaynt of Scotland Sir William Barlowe ( Bishop of Bath and Wells ) Sir John Cheke Wilson Grafton Roger Ascham For Holinshed Sir Philip Sidney Spencer Sir Walter Ralegh Lilly Cecil ( Lord Burleigh ) Stow ...
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... their political condition , to exert some of the highest efforts of intellect . Of this remark we shall have am- ple proof when we come to the reign of Eliza beth . BISHOP GARDINER . A MOST determined enemy to the reforma-
... their political condition , to exert some of the highest efforts of intellect . Of this remark we shall have am- ple proof when we come to the reign of Eliza beth . BISHOP GARDINER . A MOST determined enemy to the reforma-
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... BISHOP GARDINER . A MOST determined enemy to the reforma- tion , was Stephen Gardiner , bishop of Win- chester , and chancellor of England , born about 1483 , at Bury St. Edmund's , in Suffolk . He was educated at Trinity College , Cam ...
... BISHOP GARDINER . A MOST determined enemy to the reforma- tion , was Stephen Gardiner , bishop of Win- chester , and chancellor of England , born about 1483 , at Bury St. Edmund's , in Suffolk . He was educated at Trinity College , Cam ...
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... bishop of Lon- don , afterwards fellow martyr with Latimer , in a sermon preached before the court at the com ... bishop's manner , as likewise , of the opinions common in that age . The letter is preserved in Foxe's Acts and Mo ...
... bishop of Lon- don , afterwards fellow martyr with Latimer , in a sermon preached before the court at the com ... bishop's manner , as likewise , of the opinions common in that age . The letter is preserved in Foxe's Acts and Mo ...
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Página 332 - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the creator and the relief of man's estate.
Página 155 - But he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the wellenchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner...
Página 329 - Execrabilis ista turba, quae non novit legem^] for the winning and persuading of them, there grew of necessity in chief price and request eloquence and variety of discourse, as the fittest and forciblest access into the capacity of the vulgar sort.
Página 292 - My lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage ; but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.
Página 420 - In style, to consider what ought to be written and after what manner, he must first think and excogitate his matter, then choose his words and examine the weight of either, then take care in placing and ranking both matter and words, that the composition be comely, and to do this with diligence and often.
Página 484 - ... Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. "Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
Página 156 - ... with a tale, forsooth; he cometh unto you, with a tale, which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste...
Página 151 - ... comfort ; here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old : there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music.
Página 331 - It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity ; for words are but the images of matter, and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.
Página 422 - Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. But we must not be too frequent with the mint, every day coining. Nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages; since the chief virtue of a style is perspicuity, and nothing so vicious in it as to need an interpreter.