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 19
... person as Sir John Mandeville or Maundeville , who gives himself out as the author of an exceedingly popular and interesting book of travels . This book appeared ( probably in French originally , then in Latin and English ) towards the ...
... person as Sir John Mandeville or Maundeville , who gives himself out as the author of an exceedingly popular and interesting book of travels . This book appeared ( probably in French originally , then in Latin and English ) towards the ...
Pagina 20
... text of Chaucer , and presents a minimum of diffi- culty to any educated person . Its style , as is often the case with examples of that period of a language which coincides with 20 ENGLISH PROSE The Lady of the Land W P.
... text of Chaucer , and presents a minimum of diffi- culty to any educated person . Its style , as is often the case with examples of that period of a language which coincides with 20 ENGLISH PROSE The Lady of the Land W P.
Pagina 21
... person who took his name , is certainly , as his date , his subject , and his great popularity show , the father of all such as use modern English prose for purposes of profane delight , and his book is as full of that delight now as ...
... person who took his name , is certainly , as his date , his subject , and his great popularity show , the father of all such as use modern English prose for purposes of profane delight , and his book is as full of that delight now as ...
Pagina 36
... person , both anent God and man , keeping the hests of God , doing the works of mercy , ruling well thy five wits , and doing reason and equity and good conscience to all men . The second time , govern well thy wife , thy children , and ...
... person , both anent God and man , keeping the hests of God , doing the works of mercy , ruling well thy five wits , and doing reason and equity and good conscience to all men . The second time , govern well thy wife , thy children , and ...
Pagina 37
... persons , nor the goods of holy Church . And yet Christ and His Apostles were most obedient to kings and lords , and taught all men to be subject to them and serve them , truly and wilfully , in bodily works and tribute , and dread them ...
... persons , nor the goods of holy Church . And yet Christ and His Apostles were most obedient to kings and lords , and taught all men to be subject to them and serve them , truly and wilfully , in bodily works and tribute , and dread them ...
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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...