A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of English Prose StyleSherwin Cody A. C. McClurg, 1903 - 415 страници |
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... less degree long after the merely mechanical method of publication had been wholly changed . Thus epic poetry was originally the chanted narrative of the wandering minstrel , telling of heroic deeds and strange adventures more or less ...
... less degree long after the merely mechanical method of publication had been wholly changed . Thus epic poetry was originally the chanted narrative of the wandering minstrel , telling of heroic deeds and strange adventures more or less ...
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... less and less every year , till we can fancy that at last only their short lyrics will survive , Ruskin , the prose poet , not only got himself extensively read in his own day , but continues to be read side by side with the popular ...
... less and less every year , till we can fancy that at last only their short lyrics will survive , Ruskin , the prose poet , not only got himself extensively read in his own day , but continues to be read side by side with the popular ...
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... less confined and liable to a lashing from his master's whip if he goes wrong . Or to drop the figure , poetry offers the advantage of a me- chanical restraint , while prose must depend upon the writer's own restraint of his feelings by ...
... less confined and liable to a lashing from his master's whip if he goes wrong . Or to drop the figure , poetry offers the advantage of a me- chanical restraint , while prose must depend upon the writer's own restraint of his feelings by ...
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Sherwin Cody. poetry can be produced only by a more or less barbarous age.1 It is the natural exalted lan- guage of all rude peoples . As civilization ad- vances , its power seems to be refined away . Some have suspected that the race ...
Sherwin Cody. poetry can be produced only by a more or less barbarous age.1 It is the natural exalted lan- guage of all rude peoples . As civilization ad- vances , its power seems to be refined away . Some have suspected that the race ...
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... less important arguments and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are like com- distilled waters , flashy things . flashy things . Reading maketh a full man , conference a ready man , and writing an exact man . And therefore ...
... less important arguments and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are like com- distilled waters , flashy things . flashy things . Reading maketh a full man , conference a ready man , and writing an exact man . And therefore ...
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A. C. McCLURG action Adam Ferguson admire beauty better Boswell called character church critic culture Cyclops darkness David Garrick death disease divine dreams earth endeavour England English essay expression feel force Frederic Harrison Friedrich Schlegel give hand heart heaven human nature human perfection idea intellectual Jacobinism Johnson labour lady Land's End less Levana literary live look machinery man's manner matter Matthew Arnold means merely mind moral ness never night observe Oxford movement pass passion person Philistines pleasure poet poetry present prose prose poetry Protestantism Puritans Pyrrhonism reader reason religion religious organisations Ruskin Sainte-Beuve scarcely seems seen sense shadow Sir Roger society soul speak spirit style sweetness and light things thou thought tion true truth Uncon virtue waves whist whole wholly word writer young
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Страница 7 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Страница 246 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Страница 8 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Страница 7 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Страница 12 - Magna civitas, magna solitudo ; " because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighborhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness...
Страница 8 - Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body, may have appropriate exercises.
Страница 281 - Events which shortsighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished, and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the evangelist and the harp of the prophet. He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.
Страница 13 - ... no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
Страница 20 - A man cannot speak to his son but as a father; to his wife but as a husband; to his enemy but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
Страница 90 - ... indefinable sweetness growing up to it —the tender blossoming of fat — fat cropped in the bud — taken in the shoot — in the first innocence — the cream and quintessence of the child-pig's yet pure food — the lean, no lean, but a kind of animal manna — or, rather, fat and lean (if it must be so) so blended and running into each other, that both together make but one ambrosian result or common substance. Behold him while he is doing — it seemeth rather a refreshing warmth, than...