Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...J. Bumpus, 1813 |
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Pagina 61
... whereof assuredly there are but few . And whatsoever he is , that can aptly tell his tale , and with countenance , voice , and gesture , so temper his report that the hearers may still take delight , him count a man worthy to be highly ...
... whereof assuredly there are but few . And whatsoever he is , that can aptly tell his tale , and with countenance , voice , and gesture , so temper his report that the hearers may still take delight , him count a man worthy to be highly ...
Pagina 71
... whereof I will not here detect ) and therein hath charged me bitterly , but chiefly with two things . The one , that I have made Edward Hall's Chronicle my Chronicle , but not without mangling , and ( as he saith ) without any ingenuous ...
... whereof I will not here detect ) and therein hath charged me bitterly , but chiefly with two things . The one , that I have made Edward Hall's Chronicle my Chronicle , but not without mangling , and ( as he saith ) without any ingenuous ...
Pagina 129
... unto our country , our predecessors fed large- ly upon flesh and milk , whereof there was great abundance in this isle , because they applied their VOL . II . K chief studies unto pasturage and feeding . After this manner HOLINSHED .
... unto our country , our predecessors fed large- ly upon flesh and milk , whereof there was great abundance in this isle , because they applied their VOL . II . K chief studies unto pasturage and feeding . After this manner HOLINSHED .
Pagina 131
... whereof so much as a bean would qualify their hunger above common ex- pectation . In woods , moreover , they lived with herbs and roots , or if these shifts served not , thorough want of such provision at hand , then used they to creep ...
... whereof so much as a bean would qualify their hunger above common ex- pectation . In woods , moreover , they lived with herbs and roots , or if these shifts served not , thorough want of such provision at hand , then used they to creep ...
Pagina 134
... whereof when they have taken what it pleaseth them , the rest is reserved , and afterwards sent down to their serving men and waiters , who feed thereon in like sort with convenient moderation , their reversion also being be stowed upon ...
... whereof when they have taken what it pleaseth them , the rest is reserved , and afterwards sent down to their serving men and waiters , who feed thereon in like sort with convenient moderation , their reversion also being be stowed upon ...
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Pagina 312 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge 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 and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Pagina 151 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting 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.
Pagina 311 - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession...
Pagina 399 - Language most shewes a man: speake that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired, and inmost parts of us, and is the Image of the Parent of it, the mind. No glasse renders a mans forme, or likenesse, so true as his speech.
Pagina 223 - Neither, by my consent, shalt thou train them up in wars; for he that sets up his rest to live by that profession, can hardly be an honest man or a good Christian...
Pagina 274 - 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.
Pagina 222 - Nor choose a base and uncomely creature altogether for wealth ; for it will cause contempt in others and loathing in thee.
Pagina 394 - 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.
Pagina 460 - ... quietness sake : just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat ; if every man should buy, or if there were many buyers, they would never agree ; one would buy what the other liked not, or what the other had bought before ; so there would be a confusion. But that charge being committed to one, he, according to his discretion, pleases all ; if they have not what they would have one day, they shall have it the next, or something as good.
Pagina 147 - There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees : humble valleys whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers ; meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers ; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so...