The Harvard Classics, Volume 39P.F. Collier & son, 1909 - Literature |
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... reason , would justify a volume of Prefaces . But there are other reasons why a Preface may be presented apart from its parent work , and may , indeed , be expected some- times to survive it . The Prologues and Epilogues of Caxton were ...
... reason , would justify a volume of Prefaces . But there are other reasons why a Preface may be presented apart from its parent work , and may , indeed , be expected some- times to survive it . The Prologues and Epilogues of Caxton were ...
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... reason ; when he cannot refrain his covetise ; and when he is governed by the counsel of women , in that he knoweth that they know not . And he said unto his disciples : " Will ye that I enseign and teach you how ye shall now escape ...
... reason ; when he cannot refrain his covetise ; and when he is governed by the counsel of women , in that he knoweth that they know not . And he said unto his disciples : " Will ye that I enseign and teach you how ye shall now escape ...
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... reason may we render or what answer shall we give when in idleness is none excuse ; and Prosper saith that whosoever liveth in idleness liveth in manner of a dumb beast . And because I have seen the authorities that blame and despise so ...
... reason may we render or what answer shall we give when in idleness is none excuse ; and Prosper saith that whosoever liveth in idleness liveth in manner of a dumb beast . And because I have seen the authorities that blame and despise so ...
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... reason than that we may learn to glory in the Lord . What shall I say more ? Review , Sire , all the parts of our cause , and con- sider us worse than the most abandoned of mankind , un- less you clearly discover that we thus " both ...
... reason than that we may learn to glory in the Lord . What shall I say more ? Review , Sire , all the parts of our cause , and con- sider us worse than the most abandoned of mankind , un- less you clearly discover that we thus " both ...
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... reason , they say , for the admonition of Solomon , " not to transgress or remove the ancient land- marks , which our fathers have set . " " But the same rule is not applicable to the bounding of fields , and to the obedience of faith ...
... reason , they say , for the admonition of Solomon , " not to transgress or remove the ancient land- marks , which our fathers have set . " " But the same rule is not applicable to the bounding of fields , and to the obedience of faith ...
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Page 310 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Page 217 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Page 261 - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him, that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators.
Page 174 - But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
Page 322 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Page 220 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Page 301 - ... the emotion is contemplated till by a species of reaction the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind. In this mood successful composition generally begins, and in a mood similar to this it is carried on...
Page 182 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Page 220 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern j writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his / readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. His ^ characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world...
Page 173 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.