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. |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 69
Pagina xiv
... Braggart's Fate 593 TIMOTHY BRIGHT ( 1551-1615 ) Norman Moore 595 How the Soul by one Simple Faculty performeth so many and Divers Actions 596 NOTES 599 INTRODUCTION THE EARLIER HISTORY OF ENGLISH PROSE THE attraction of xiv ENGLISH PROSE.
... Braggart's Fate 593 TIMOTHY BRIGHT ( 1551-1615 ) Norman Moore 595 How the Soul by one Simple Faculty performeth so many and Divers Actions 596 NOTES 599 INTRODUCTION THE EARLIER HISTORY OF ENGLISH PROSE THE attraction of xiv ENGLISH PROSE.
Pagina 10
... Soul , is beyond all praise for its pathetic 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 ...
... Soul , is beyond all praise for its pathetic 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 ...
Pagina 36
... soul ; principally if thou maintainest Antichrist's disciples in their errors against Christ's life and His teaching , for blindness and worldly friendship , and helpest to slander and pursue true men that teach Christ's Gospel and His ...
... soul ; principally if thou maintainest Antichrist's disciples in their errors against Christ's life and His teaching , for blindness and worldly friendship , and helpest to slander and pursue true men that teach Christ's Gospel and His ...
Pagina 37
... Paul com- mandeth by authority of God that every soul be subject to higher powers , for there is no power but of God ; princes be not to the dread of good work , but of evil work . JOHN WYCLIFFE 37 The Clergy subject to the Civil ...
... Paul com- mandeth by authority of God that every soul be subject to higher powers , for there is no power but of God ; princes be not to the dread of good work , but of evil work . JOHN WYCLIFFE 37 The Clergy subject to the Civil ...
Pagina 43
... of Melibeus is repre- sentative of the ideas and tastes of millions of good souls . Being representative , it could not be alien from Chaucer . W. P. KER . PREFACE TO THE TREATISE ON THE ASTROLABE LITTLE Lewis my CHAUCER 43.
... of Melibeus is repre- sentative of the ideas and tastes of millions of good souls . Being representative , it could not be alien from Chaucer . W. P. KER . PREFACE TO THE TREATISE ON THE ASTROLABE LITTLE Lewis my CHAUCER 43.
Inhoudsopgave
125 | |
131 | |
141 | |
155 | |
164 | |
172 | |
178 | |
181 | |
191 | |
201 | |
211 | |
223 | |
240 | |
255 | |
267 | |
285 | |
295 | |
309 | |
317 | |
327 | |
335 | |
417 | |
423 | |
433 | |
441 | |
444 | |
447 | |
457 | |
467 | |
489 | |
499 | |
505 | |
513 | |
533 | |
539 | |
551 | |
565 | |
577 | |
583 | |
591 | |
599 | |
600 | |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Arthur Astrolabe Bible body called cause Chaucer Christ Chronicle Church cleped commanded court death delight desire divers doth Duke enemies England English prose Euphues Euphuism faith father French Gawaine give God's grace hand hath heart heaven Henry Henry VIII holy honour John king king Arthur king's knight labour lady land Latin learning literary literature live London lord Lord Berners Lord Chamberlain manner marvellous matter mercy mind nature never noble Parson's Tale Philemon Holland pleasure Plutarch poets poor pray prince Queen quoth realm reason religion rich Saint saith Scotland Scripture servants shewed Sir Bedivere Sir Launcelot Sir Lucan Sir Mordred Sir Philip Sidney sith soul speak style sword thee thereof things thou thought took translation true truth unto virtue Wherefore wherein wise words writings
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...