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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... queen Mary's cruelties , it appears that he considered religion merely as an engine of state , and used it only for his selfish and ambitious purposes . THE COMPLAYNT OF SCOTLAND . ONLY four copies of this 16 GARDINER.
... queen Mary's cruelties , it appears that he considered religion merely as an engine of state , and used it only for his selfish and ambitious purposes . THE COMPLAYNT OF SCOTLAND . ONLY four copies of this 16 GARDINER.
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... appears by the preface ) . This author sir William Barlowe was first bishop of St. Asaph , then bishop of St. David's , then bishop of Chichester , lastly bishop of Bath and Wells . In Edward VI . days began he- resy , and in queen ...
... appears by the preface ) . This author sir William Barlowe was first bishop of St. Asaph , then bishop of St. David's , then bishop of Chichester , lastly bishop of Bath and Wells . In Edward VI . days began he- resy , and in queen ...
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... appears to have been necessary at Cambridge , in order to keep the attention of the members of that university fixed on polite letters : for he was no sooner called away to court , than they relapsed into idle disputations on the ...
... appears to have been necessary at Cambridge , in order to keep the attention of the members of that university fixed on polite letters : for he was no sooner called away to court , than they relapsed into idle disputations on the ...
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... appear to have availed themselves of these directions , if not to have catched the notion of their whole plan from this remarkable passage . " " " " He next shews the advantages of personi- fication in enlivening a composition ...
... appear to have availed themselves of these directions , if not to have catched the notion of their whole plan from this remarkable passage . " " " " He next shews the advantages of personi- fication in enlivening a composition ...
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... appear rhymed metre , than to seem plain speech . " I heard a preacher delighting much in this kind of composition , who used so often to end his sen- tence with words like unto that which went be- fore , that in my judgment there was ...
... appear rhymed metre , than to seem plain speech . " I heard a preacher delighting much in this kind of composition , who used so often to end his sen- tence with words like unto that which went be- fore , that in my judgment there was ...
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Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.