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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... look up with admiration at its beautiful proportions and feel gratitude in his heart for the friendly shade . This is very different from chopping that tree up into fence - posts and using them to form an ugly barrier around , let us ...
... look up with admiration at its beautiful proportions and feel gratitude in his heart for the friendly shade . This is very different from chopping that tree up into fence - posts and using them to form an ugly barrier around , let us ...
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... looks on as a master of style " - to- day it is most likely to be Pater or Flaubert or 66 1 Quoted by Pater in his essay on “ Style . ” Matthew Arnold and will confine himself to expressing himself as xxviii General Introduction.
... looks on as a master of style " - to- day it is most likely to be Pater or Flaubert or 66 1 Quoted by Pater in his essay on “ Style . ” Matthew Arnold and will confine himself to expressing himself as xxviii General Introduction.
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... he marshalleth them more orderly , he seeth how they look when they are turned into words ; finally , he waxeth wiser than himself , and that more by an hour's It was discourse than by a day's meditation . well 16 Best English Essays.
... he marshalleth them more orderly , he seeth how they look when they are turned into words ; finally , he waxeth wiser than himself , and that more by an hour's It was discourse than by a day's meditation . well 16 Best English Essays.
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... look sometimes into a glass , and presently forget their own shape and favour . " As for business , a man may think if he will that two eyes see no more than one ; or that a gamester seeth always more than a looker - on ; or that a man ...
... look sometimes into a glass , and presently forget their own shape and favour . " As for business , a man may think if he will that two eyes see no more than one ; or that a gamester seeth always more than a looker - on ; or that a man ...
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... looks up and catches the old fellow's malicious eye , his very flesh creeps under the stinging satire of the truth that the Dean states so suavely and so accurately . The Dean is bitter and malicious as no other man ever was ; but he is ...
... looks up and catches the old fellow's malicious eye , his very flesh creeps under the stinging satire of the truth that the Dean states so suavely and so accurately . The Dean is bitter and malicious as no other man ever was ; but he is ...
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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...