The Oxford Book of English ProseClarendon Press, 1925 - 1092 sivua |
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Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 100
Sivu 5
... hath slayn a fat calf , for he hath resceyved him saaf . But this eldere sone hadde de- deyn , and wolde not come in ; therfore his fadir wente out , and bigan to preie him . And he answeride , and seide to his fadir , Lo , so many ...
... hath slayn a fat calf , for he hath resceyved him saaf . But this eldere sone hadde de- deyn , and wolde not come in ; therfore his fadir wente out , and bigan to preie him . And he answeride , and seide to his fadir , Lo , so many ...
Sivu 7
... hath reft awey in autumpne , that is to seyn , in the laste ende of somer ; and the sedes that the sterre that highte Arcturus saw , ben waxen heye cornes whan the sterre Sirius eschaufeth hem . Ther nis nothing unbounde from his olde ...
... hath reft awey in autumpne , that is to seyn , in the laste ende of somer ; and the sedes that the sterre that highte Arcturus saw , ben waxen heye cornes whan the sterre Sirius eschaufeth hem . Ther nis nothing unbounde from his olde ...
Sivu 8
... hath him openly revyled and repreved in disclaundre . This is a ful grisly sinne , as Crist seith in the gospel . . . And certes , chydinge 9 kembd ) trimmed ( combed ) 10 shrewes ) scoundrels 25 unnethes ) hardly 27 repreved ) reproved ...
... hath him openly revyled and repreved in disclaundre . This is a ful grisly sinne , as Crist seith in the gospel . . . And certes , chydinge 9 kembd ) trimmed ( combed ) 10 shrewes ) scoundrels 25 unnethes ) hardly 27 repreved ) reproved ...
Sivu 10
... hath not but one entree that is closed with fyre brennynge , so that noman that is mortall ne dar not 5 knakkes ) tricks I gaudes ) tricks 2 deffendeth ) forbids 15 torn ) turn 9 that forthinketh me ) I am sorry for that entren . And in ...
... hath not but one entree that is closed with fyre brennynge , so that noman that is mortall ne dar not 5 knakkes ) tricks I gaudes ) tricks 2 deffendeth ) forbids 15 torn ) turn 9 that forthinketh me ) I am sorry for that entren . And in ...
Sivu 12
... hath it befallen many tymes of o thing that I have herd cownted whan I was yong , how a worthi man departed somtyme from oure contrees for to go serche the world . And so he passed YNDE and the yles beyonde YNDE Where ben mo than .v ...
... hath it befallen many tymes of o thing that I have herd cownted whan I was yong , how a worthi man departed somtyme from oure contrees for to go serche the world . And so he passed YNDE and the yles beyonde YNDE Where ben mo than .v ...
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Suositut otteet
Sivu 952 - I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my Pilgrimage, and my Courage and Skill to him that can get it.
Sivu 413 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, my Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble, " Most obedient servant,
Sivu 286 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Sivu 164 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Sivu 322 - It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand...
Sivu 467 - Little did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Sivu 163 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature...
Sivu 224 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and f heat.
Sivu 212 - O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die ; And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.
Sivu 357 - The bridge thou seest, said he, is Human Life : consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which added to those that were entire made up the number about a hundred.