English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various Writers, and General Introductions to Each Period, Volume 2 |
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Common terms and phrases
able affections answer appear authority believe better body brought called carried cause character Christian Church common continued court death desire discourse divine doubt earth England English expression eyes faith fear follow force friends give given hand happy hath heaven honour hope Italy judge judgment kind king king's Latin learning least leave less light live look Lord manner matter means mind nature never observed opinion parliament pass peace person present prince prose published reason received religion rest seems sense sent side soul speak spirit style taken tell things thou thought true truth understanding University unto whereof whole 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 536 - I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Page 344 - Doubt not, therefore, sir, but that angling is an art, and an art worth your learning. The question is rather, whether you be capable of learning it ? for angling is somewhat like poetry, — men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice; but he that hopes to be a good angler must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself;...
Page 216 - ... that nature should thus dissociate and render men apt to invade and destroy one another; and he may therefore, not trusting to this inference made from the passions, desire perhaps to have the same confirmed by experience.
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 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.
Page 328 - Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
Page 482 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Page 206 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Page 148 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people...
Bibliographic information
| Title | English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various Writers, and General Introductions to Each Period, Volume 2 English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various Writers, and General Introductions to Each Period, Sir Henry Craik |
| Editor | Sir Henry Craik |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Company, 1894 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 Nov 2007 |
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