The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With Biographical Notices, Explanatory Notes, and Introductory Sketches of the History of English LiteratureBlack, 1860 - 552 pagina's |
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Pagina 10
... the joint production of Thomas Norton , and Sackville , Lord Buckhurst , and is in blank verse , being the earliest use of that kind of verse in HISTORICAL SKETCH . 11 the drama . It contains many 10 HISTORICAL SKETCH .
... the joint production of Thomas Norton , and Sackville , Lord Buckhurst , and is in blank verse , being the earliest use of that kind of verse in HISTORICAL SKETCH . 11 the drama . It contains many 10 HISTORICAL SKETCH .
Pagina 18
... kind of sickness that he has ; and they that dwell there , and drink often of that well , never have sickness , but appear always young . I have drunk thereof three or four times , and methinks I still fare the better . Some men call it ...
... kind of sickness that he has ; and they that dwell there , and drink often of that well , never have sickness , but appear always young . I have drunk thereof three or four times , and methinks I still fare the better . Some men call it ...
Pagina 29
... kind of thieving . They were princes : they had a prince - like kind of thieving , " they all love bribes . " Bribery is a princely kind of thieving . They will be waged by the rich , either to give sentence against the poor , or to put ...
... kind of thieving . They were princes : they had a prince - like kind of thieving , " they all love bribes . " Bribery is a princely kind of thieving . They will be waged by the rich , either to give sentence against the poor , or to put ...
Pagina 30
... kind of ware can be had , except we give for it too much . You landlords , you rent - raisers , I may say , you step - lords , you unnatural lords , you have for your possessions yearly too much . " For that here before went for twenty ...
... kind of ware can be had , except we give for it too much . You landlords , you rent - raisers , I may say , you step - lords , you unnatural lords , you have for your possessions yearly too much . " For that here before went for twenty ...
Pagina 32
... kind of popery . He is ready as he can be wished for to set forth his plough ; to devise as many ways as can be to deface and obscure God's glory . Where the devil is resident , and hath his plough going , there away with books , and up ...
... kind of popery . He is ready as he can be wished for to set forth his plough ; to devise as many ways as can be to deface and obscure God's glory . Where the devil is resident , and hath his plough going , there away with books , and up ...
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Pagina 177 - I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Pagina 109 - It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps there is no great loss ; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom...
Pagina 80 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores.
Pagina 126 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds : but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Pagina 45 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Pagina 117 - Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man, against every man.
Pagina 111 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, — purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble...
Pagina 240 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.
Pagina 361 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Pagina 119 - And consequently it is a precept, or general rule of reason, " that every man ought to endeavour peace, as far as he has hope of obtaining it ; and when he cannot obtain it, that he may seek and use all helps and advantages of war.