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 xii
... Grace . Man's Sinfulness Hooker's Defence of Himself Justice and the Harmony of Creation A Virtuous Woman An Appeal RICHARD KNOLLES ( about 1544-1610 ) Amurath Mahomet and Irene WILLIAM CAMDEN ( 1551-1623 ) The Beauties of the Isle of ...
... Grace . Man's Sinfulness Hooker's Defence of Himself Justice and the Harmony of Creation A Virtuous Woman An Appeal RICHARD KNOLLES ( about 1544-1610 ) Amurath Mahomet and Irene WILLIAM CAMDEN ( 1551-1623 ) The Beauties of the Isle of ...
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... grace and beauty . It was not left alone in its serious- ness and its reserve . The theme was taken up again and treated with a dissolute ostentation of sentiment , with tears and outcries . The Wooing of Our Lord , as compared with the ...
... grace and beauty . It was not left alone in its serious- ness and its reserve . The theme was taken up again and treated with a dissolute ostentation of sentiment , with tears and outcries . The Wooing of Our Lord , as compared with the ...
Pagina 33
... grace to have patience in them , and they shall in this life serve to Christ truly . And so Christ forgiveth them upon this condition . But they wend out , and sue not Christ their Lord in mercy , but oppress their servants that owe ...
... grace to have patience in them , and they shall in this life serve to Christ truly . And so Christ forgiveth them upon this condition . But they wend out , and sue not Christ their Lord in mercy , but oppress their servants that owe ...
Pagina 66
... grace to depart from them since that I came hither , for here it happed me to slay a knight that kept this island , and since might I never depart , and no more should ye brother , and ye might have slain me as ye have , and escaped ...
... grace to depart from them since that I came hither , for here it happed me to slay a knight that kept this island , and since might I never depart , and no more should ye brother , and ye might have slain me as ye have , and escaped ...
Pagina 75
... grace , that after my death to have a sight of the blessed face of Christ , and at doomsday to sit on his right side , for as sinful as ever I was are saints in heaven . Therefore , Sir Launcelot , I require thee and beseech thee ...
... grace , that after my death to have a sight of the blessed face of Christ , and at doomsday to sit on his right side , for as sinful as ever I was are saints in heaven . Therefore , Sir Launcelot , I require thee and beseech thee ...
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