The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With Biographical Notices, Explanatory Notes, and Introductory Sketches of the History of English Literature |
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... language is intelligible to an ordinary reader , down to the present time - seems , beyond any doubt , the best substitute for that actual perusal of the great body of our literature , from which , in our present circumstances , the ...
... language is intelligible to an ordinary reader , down to the present time - seems , beyond any doubt , the best substitute for that actual perusal of the great body of our literature , from which , in our present circumstances , the ...
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... language . That nothing may be wanting to render the pre- sent work a complete introduction to English prose literature , a historical sketch has been prefixed to each of the four periods under which the extracts have been ranged ...
... language . That nothing may be wanting to render the pre- sent work a complete introduction to English prose literature , a historical sketch has been prefixed to each of the four periods under which the extracts have been ranged ...
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... language , have been carefully re- tained , the reader being referred for an explanation of them to the illustrative notes which accompany the passage where they occur . The advantages which may be derived from the perusal of a series ...
... language , have been carefully re- tained , the reader being referred for an explanation of them to the illustrative notes which accompany the passage where they occur . The advantages which may be derived from the perusal of a series ...
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... language and the thought ; redeemed , however , by many good features , which gave promise of the future excellence of our literature . HISTORICAL SKETCH Geoffrey Chaucer , born 1328 , died 1400 On the Choice of Friends Sir John ...
... language and the thought ; redeemed , however , by many good features , which gave promise of the future excellence of our literature . HISTORICAL SKETCH Geoffrey Chaucer , born 1328 , died 1400 On the Choice of Friends Sir John ...
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... language , and vivacity in style . To this period belong our greatest historians . HISTORICAL SKETCH 225 PAGE PAGE Joseph Addison , Henry Fielding , born 1672 , died 1719 240 born 1707 , died 1754 • 292 • Sir Roger de Coverley at the ...
... language , and vivacity in style . To this period belong our greatest historians . HISTORICAL SKETCH 225 PAGE PAGE Joseph Addison , Henry Fielding , born 1672 , died 1719 240 born 1707 , died 1754 • 292 • Sir Roger de Coverley at the ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.