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 99
... excellent , and right virtuous princess , my right redoubted lady , my lady Margaret , by the grace of God sister unto the King of England and of France , my sovereign lord Duchess of Bour- goyne , of Lotryk , of Brabant , of Lymburgh ...
... excellent , and right virtuous princess , my right redoubted lady , my lady Margaret , by the grace of God sister unto the King of England and of France , my sovereign lord Duchess of Bour- goyne , of Lotryk , of Brabant , of Lymburgh ...
Pagina 192
... excellent good sense and sagacity make him very readable . His pedantry - the over- weighting with ancient examples just referred to — is but the inevitable pedantry of the Renascence . And if he coins or imports many words of foreign ...
... excellent good sense and sagacity make him very readable . His pedantry - the over- weighting with ancient examples just referred to — is but the inevitable pedantry of the Renascence . And if he coins or imports many words of foreign ...
Pagina 195
... excellent learned philosopher , as soon as he had received Alexander from King Philip his father , he before any other thing taught him the most noble works of Homer : wherein Alexander found such sweetness and fruit , that ever after ...
... excellent learned philosopher , as soon as he had received Alexander from King Philip his father , he before any other thing taught him the most noble works of Homer : wherein Alexander found such sweetness and fruit , that ever after ...
Pagina 197
... excellent in learning have provided for them cunning masters , who substantially have taught them grammar , and very well instructed them to speak Latin elegantly , whereof the parents have taken much delectation ; but when they have ...
... excellent in learning have provided for them cunning masters , who substantially have taught them grammar , and very well instructed them to speak Latin elegantly , whereof the parents have taken much delectation ; but when they have ...
Pagina 199
... excellent memory . First , a judge , who being a subject , feared not to execute justice on the eldest son of his sovereign lord , and by the order of nature his successor . Also a prince and son and heir of the King , in the midst of ...
... excellent memory . First , a judge , who being a subject , feared not to execute justice on the eldest son of his sovereign lord , and by the order of nature his successor . Also a prince and son and heir of the King , in the midst of ...
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Populaire passages
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...