The Oxford Book of English ProseClarendon Press, 1925 - 1092 sivua |
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Sivu 67
... speaking of any flats or sands that stopped the haven , and therfore I thinke that Tenterton steple is the cause of the destroyng and decaying of Sandwych haven . And even so to my purpose is preaching of Gods word the cause of ...
... speaking of any flats or sands that stopped the haven , and therfore I thinke that Tenterton steple is the cause of the destroyng and decaying of Sandwych haven . And even so to my purpose is preaching of Gods word the cause of ...
Sivu 75
... speak of women as nature and experience do this day declare them . Nature , I say , doth paint them forth to be weak , frail , impatient , feeble and foolish ; foolish ; and experience hath declared them to be unconstant , variable , 75 ...
... speak of women as nature and experience do this day declare them . Nature , I say , doth paint them forth to be weak , frail , impatient , feeble and foolish ; foolish ; and experience hath declared them to be unconstant , variable , 75 ...
Sivu 80
... speak , keep Silence , sit , stand , or go , eat , drink , be merry , or sad , be sewing , playing , dancing , or doing any- thing else , I must do it , as it were , in such Weight , Measure , and Number , even so perfectly , as God ...
... speak , keep Silence , sit , stand , or go , eat , drink , be merry , or sad , be sewing , playing , dancing , or doing any- thing else , I must do it , as it were , in such Weight , Measure , and Number , even so perfectly , as God ...
Sivu 82
... speak with his wife , ' and so they stayed . Then came she to him , and he took his daughter Mary in his arms , and he , his wife and Elizabeth kneeled down and said the Lord's Prayer . At which sight the Sheriff wept apace , and so did ...
... speak with his wife , ' and so they stayed . Then came she to him , and he took his daughter Mary in his arms , and he , his wife and Elizabeth kneeled down and said the Lord's Prayer . At which sight the Sheriff wept apace , and so did ...
Sivu 83
... speak as is commonly received , neither seeking to be over fine , nor yet living over careless , using our speech as most men do , and ordering our wits as the fewest have done . Some seek so far for outlandish English , that they ...
... speak as is commonly received , neither seeking to be over fine , nor yet living over careless , using our speech as most men do , and ordering our wits as the fewest have done . Some seek so far for outlandish English , that they ...
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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.