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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... thereof , and shew my simple and plain dealing therein . One John Stow - of whom I will say no evil , although he hath greatly provoked me thereunto , as by writing of an epistle against me , stuffed with ragged eloquence and ...
... thereof , and shew my simple and plain dealing therein . One John Stow - of whom I will say no evil , although he hath greatly provoked me thereunto , as by writing of an epistle against me , stuffed with ragged eloquence and ...
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... thereof . The other thing that he chargeth me withal , is in praising of John Harding , one of his authors ( who surely is worthy of great praise , and I wish he had follow- ed in his book no worse author ) . He saith , that a Chronicle ...
... thereof . The other thing that he chargeth me withal , is in praising of John Harding , one of his authors ( who surely is worthy of great praise , and I wish he had follow- ed in his book no worse author ) . He saith , that a Chronicle ...
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... thereof are expressed the particulars of the same . And I have joined hereunto an exact table , for the ready finding of any matter herein contained , second page most heartily praying the gentle reader , that where he GRAFTON . 73.
... thereof are expressed the particulars of the same . And I have joined hereunto an exact table , for the ready finding of any matter herein contained , second page most heartily praying the gentle reader , that where he GRAFTON . 73.
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... thereof . " He con- ceived the design of this work while a fugitive at Basil . In 1554 , he had published at Stras burg , " Commentarii rerum in Ecclesia gesta- rum , Maximarumque per totam Europam perse- cutionum a Wiclavi temporibus ...
... thereof . " He con- ceived the design of this work while a fugitive at Basil . In 1554 , he had published at Stras burg , " Commentarii rerum in Ecclesia gesta- rum , Maximarumque per totam Europam perse- cutionum a Wiclavi temporibus ...
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... that it was heresy to affirm that the blessed virgin was con- ceived without the guilt of original sin ; and that they which did celebrate the feast of her concep- tion , or said any masses thereof , did sin 116 FOX .
... that it was heresy to affirm that the blessed virgin was con- ceived without the guilt of original sin ; and that they which did celebrate the feast of her concep- tion , or said any masses thereof , did sin 116 FOX .
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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.