English Prose: Selections, Volume 1Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1893 This collection shows the growth and development of English prose by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers. |
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Pagina 13
... radiance of Heaven across the land of Morgan le Fay . The time in which Malory wrote was not favourable to pure imaginative literature - poetry was all but extinguished - yet Malory was able to revive , INTRODUCTION 13.
... radiance of Heaven across the land of Morgan le Fay . The time in which Malory wrote was not favourable to pure imaginative literature - poetry was all but extinguished - yet Malory was able to revive , INTRODUCTION 13.
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Selections Sir Henry Craik. but extinguished - yet Malory was able to revive , by some wonder- ful gift , the aspirations and the visionary ardour of the youth of Christendom - little in agreement , one might fancy , with the positive ...
Selections Sir Henry Craik. but extinguished - yet Malory was able to revive , by some wonder- ful gift , the aspirations and the visionary ardour of the youth of Christendom - little in agreement , one might fancy , with the positive ...
Pagina 27
... able to withstand the attempt to silence him , but his opponents afterwards obtained his condemnation by a bull of the Pope . Even this , however , failed to crush him , as he found strenuous adherents at Oxford , and seems by this time ...
... able to withstand the attempt to silence him , but his opponents afterwards obtained his condemnation by a bull of the Pope . Even this , however , failed to crush him , as he found strenuous adherents at Oxford , and seems by this time ...
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... able to stir up against him what was apparently a strong current of popular opinion . His Treatise of Faith touched an even more dangerous point ; and the unorthodox tendency of his teaching became more plain , when in that work he ...
... able to stir up against him what was apparently a strong current of popular opinion . His Treatise of Faith touched an even more dangerous point ; and the unorthodox tendency of his teaching became more plain , when in that work he ...
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... able to fight , nor to defend the realm ; nor they have weapons , nor money to buy them weapons withal . But verily they live in the most extreme poverty and misery , and yet dwell they on the most fertile realm of the world ...
... able to fight , nor to defend the realm ; nor they have weapons , nor money to buy them weapons withal . But verily they live in the most extreme poverty and misery , and yet dwell they on the most fertile realm of the world ...
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Pagina 485 - And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth ; and the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel...
Pagina 468 - But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was fair as the morning and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements...
Pagina 487 - And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
Pagina 162 - I, your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and . „ swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities.
Pagina 419 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Pagina 563 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Pagina 162 - For look in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest, and therefore dearest wool, there noblemen and gentlemen : yea, and certain Abbots, holy men, no doubt, not contenting themselves with the yearly revenues and profits that were wont to grow to their forefathers and predecessors of their lands...
Pagina 562 - To those gentlemen, his quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making plays, RG wisheth a better exercise, and wisdom to prevent his extremities.
Pagina 322 - And forasmuch as his mind gave him that, his nephews living, men would not reckon that he could have right to the realm, he thought therefore without delay to rid them, as though the killing of his kinsmen could amend his cause and make him a kindly king.
Pagina 35 - Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring...