English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various Writers, and General Introductions to Each Period, Band 4Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1895 This collection shows the growth and development of English prose by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers. |
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... probable that I may be hurried away to uncle's without being able to give you previous notice of it ; I beg you that as soon as you shall hear of such a violence , you would send to the usual place , to take back. 09 60 ENGLISH PROSE.
... probable that I may be hurried away to uncle's without being able to give you previous notice of it ; I beg you that as soon as you shall hear of such a violence , you would send to the usual place , to take back. 09 60 ENGLISH PROSE.
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... soon be over - a few - a very few moments - will end the strife and I shall be happy ! Comfort here , sir ( turning her head to the Colonel ) -comfort my cousin see ! the blame - able kind- ness he would not wish me to be happy -- so soon ...
... soon be over - a few - a very few moments - will end the strife and I shall be happy ! Comfort here , sir ( turning her head to the Colonel ) -comfort my cousin see ! the blame - able kind- ness he would not wish me to be happy -- so soon ...
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... soon showing signs of returning life , our attention was again engaged ; and I besought her , when a little recovered , to complete in my favour her half - pronounced blessing . She waved her hand to us both , and bowed her head six ...
... soon showing signs of returning life , our attention was again engaged ; and I besought her , when a little recovered , to complete in my favour her half - pronounced blessing . She waved her hand to us both , and bowed her head six ...
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... soon lets his hat fall down , and , in taking it up again , throws down his cane ; in recovering his cane , his hat falls a second time ; so that he is a quarter of an hour before he is in order again . If he drinks tea or coffee , he ...
... soon lets his hat fall down , and , in taking it up again , throws down his cane ; in recovering his cane , his hat falls a second time ; so that he is a quarter of an hour before he is in order again . If he drinks tea or coffee , he ...
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... soon concluded , your Lordship would think it all long of him ; and that he must have neglected for to have wrote to his Court about it . I must beg leave to put your Lordship in mind , as how , that I am now full three quarters in ...
... soon concluded , your Lordship would think it all long of him ; and that he must have neglected for to have wrote to his Court about it . I must beg leave to put your Lordship in mind , as how , that I am now full three quarters in ...
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Adam Smith admiration ancient appear Burke called character Church civil common conversation Conyers Middleton cried criticism dear death Dugald Stewart Duke of Bedford Edited effect endeavour England English eyes fancy father favour Frances Burney genius GEORGE SAINTSBURY give grace hand happiness heart honour Horace Walpole human humour ideas imagination Isaac Disraeli Jane Austen Jean Peltier Johnson Jonathan Wild kind King labour lady language learning less letters liberty literary lived look Lord mankind manner means ment merit mind moral nature never object observed opinion passions perfect perhaps person philosophy poet poetry political present principles prose reason religion Scotland seemed sense sentiments society spirit style suppose taste things thought tion Tom Jones Tribonian truth uncle Toby virtue whole words write
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 400 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Seite 491 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Seite 446 - For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book and all the people. Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Seite 53 - That Christ was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. (2) That as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive. From the beginning to the end of Christ's atoning work, no other power is ascribed to it, nothing else is intended by it, as an appeaser of wrath, but the destroying of all that in man which comes from the devil ; no other merits, or value, or infinite worth, than that of its infinite ability...
Seite 377 - America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who understand the military art will, of course, have some predilection for it. Those who wield the thunder of the State may have more confidence in the efficacy of arms. But i confess, possibly for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much...
Seite 576 - A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep...
Seite 363 - I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.
Seite 76 - The Wise Man observes, that there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not at all speak from their having any thing to say, as every sentence shows, but only from their inclination to be talking.
Seite 170 - But the knowledge of nature is only half the task of a poet: he must be acquainted likewise with all the modes of life. His character requires that he estimate the happiness and misery of every condition, observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the despondence of decrepitude.
Seite 191 - Most fortunately it happens, that since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of back-gammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends ; and when after three or four hours...