English Prose: From the sixteenth century to the restorationSir Henry Craik Macmillan, 1920 |
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Common terms and phrases
Æsop affection amongst ancient Areopagitica authority Basilikon Doron believe Ben Jonson better Bishop body called cause Christ Christian Church Church of England common commonwealth conscience court death delight Democritic desire discourse divine doth doubt Earl Earl of Strafford earth England English Episcopacy essay Euphuism eyes faith favour fear fortune friends GEORGE SAINTSBURY give hand happy hath heaven Holy honour Hudibras humour Jeremy Taylor judgment justice Kenelm Digby king king's kingdom Latin learning less liberty literary live Long Parliament Lord majesty matter means Milton mind nature never opinion Overbury Owthorpe parliament peace person present prince prose Puritan Queen reason Religio Medici religion Scotland Scripture sermons Smectymnuus soul speak spirit style thee Theophrastus things thou thought tion true truth unto verse virtue wherein whereof whole words writings
Popular passages
Page 470 - I was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 328 - Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments. In vain we hope to be known by open and visible conservatories, when to be unknown was the means of their continuation, and obscurity their protection.
Page 469 - Bern bo, to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my • native tongue ; not to make verbal curiosities the end (that were a toilsome vanity), but to be an interpreter and relater of the best and sagest things among mine own citizens throughout this island in the mother dialect.
Page 16 - Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men; which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. Yet it were great reason that those that have children should have greatest care of future times; unto which they know they must transmit their dearest pledges.
Page 475 - To be still searching what we know not, by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it...
Page 16 - Such an one is a great rich man," and another except to it, " Yea, but he hath a great " charge of children ;" as if it were an abatement to his riches : but the most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty, especially in certain self-pleasing and humorous minds, which are so sensible of every restraint, as they will go near to think their girdles and garters to be bonds and shackles.
Page 330 - ... with the necessity of oblivion. Even old ambitions had the advantage of ours, in the attempts of their vain-glories, who acting early, and before the probable meridian of time, have by this time found great accomplishment of their designs, whereby the ancient heroes have already out -lasted their monuments and mechanical preservations.
Page 538 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Page 15 - Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies: like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises.
Page 215 - Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same is consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withall.