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 11
... turn into prose , encouraged an over - poetical manner of phrasing . The Latin Bible also , by its prose versions of poetical books , its parallelism of construction , its solemn rhythms , its profusion of metaphor , did much ...
... turn into prose , encouraged an over - poetical manner of phrasing . The Latin Bible also , by its prose versions of poetical books , its parallelism of construction , its solemn rhythms , its profusion of metaphor , did much ...
Pagina 13
... turn to Caxton's Lyf of Charles the Grete or Recuyell of the His- tories of Troy . Malory kept in English all the beauty of the Queste del St. Graal , that strange confusion of Celtic myth with Christian dreams , the most representative ...
... turn to Caxton's Lyf of Charles the Grete or Recuyell of the His- tories of Troy . Malory kept in English all the beauty of the Queste del St. Graal , that strange confusion of Celtic myth with Christian dreams , the most representative ...
Pagina 22
... turn again to her own kind , and be a woman again . But after that she shall not live long . And it is not long since , that a knight of the Rhodes , that was hardy and doughty in arms , said that he would kiss her . And when he was ...
... turn again to her own kind , and be a woman again . But after that she shall not live long . And it is not long since , that a knight of the Rhodes , that was hardy and doughty in arms , said that he would kiss her . And when he was ...
Pagina 23
... turn the damsel into her right form and kindly shape , and he shall be lord of all the countries and isles abovesaid . OF THE QUALITIES OF THE RIGHT BALM AND wyte ye well that , that a man ought to take good kepe for to buy balm , but ...
... turn the damsel into her right form and kindly shape , and he shall be lord of all the countries and isles abovesaid . OF THE QUALITIES OF THE RIGHT BALM AND wyte ye well that , that a man ought to take good kepe for to buy balm , but ...
Pagina 25
... turn to earth . And he hath borne before him also a vessel of silver , full of noble jewels of gold full rich , and of precious stones , in token of his lordship and of his noblesse and of his might . He dwelleth commonly in the city of ...
... turn to earth . And he hath borne before him also a vessel of silver , full of noble jewels of gold full rich , and of precious stones , in token of his lordship and of his noblesse and of his might . He dwelleth commonly in the city 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...