English Prose: Selections, Volum 1Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1893 This collection shows the growth and development of English prose by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers. |
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Side 454
... Irenæus , the chief speaker , who is Spenser himself , was at the time in England . Thus , on p . 61 of Dr. Grosart's edition we read : “ And this right well I wot that even here in England there are in many places as strange customs as ...
... Irenæus , the chief speaker , who is Spenser himself , was at the time in England . Thus , on p . 61 of Dr. Grosart's edition we read : “ And this right well I wot that even here in England there are in many places as strange customs as ...
Side 459
... long , notwithstanding so many good provisions and orders as have been devised for the reformation of that people . ( From A View of the Present State of Ireland . ) IRISH BARDS Irenæus . There is amongst the Irish a SPENSER 459.
... long , notwithstanding so many good provisions and orders as have been devised for the reformation of that people . ( From A View of the Present State of Ireland . ) IRISH BARDS Irenæus . There is amongst the Irish a SPENSER 459.
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Selections Sir Henry Craik. IRISH BARDS Irenæus . There is amongst the Irish a certain kind of people called Bards , which are to them instead of poets , whose profes- sion is to set forth the praises and dispraises of men in their poems ...
Selections Sir Henry Craik. IRISH BARDS Irenæus . There is amongst the Irish a certain kind of people called Bards , which are to them instead of poets , whose profes- sion is to set forth the praises and dispraises of men in their poems ...
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... Irenæus . Too true , Eudoxus , the more the pity , for I may not forget so memorable a thing : neither can I be ignorant of that perilous devise , and of the whole means by which it was com- passed , and very cunningly contrived by ...
... Irenæus . Too true , Eudoxus , the more the pity , for I may not forget so memorable a thing : neither can I be ignorant of that perilous devise , and of the whole means by which it was com- passed , and very cunningly contrived by ...
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Side 485 - And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth ; and the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel...
Side 468 - But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was fair as the morning and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements...
Side 487 - And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
Side 162 - I, your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and . „ swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities.
Side 419 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Side 563 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Side 162 - For look in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest, and therefore dearest wool, there noblemen and gentlemen : yea, and certain Abbots, holy men, no doubt, not contenting themselves with the yearly revenues and profits that were wont to grow to their forefathers and predecessors of their lands...
Side 562 - To those gentlemen, his quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making plays, RG wisheth a better exercise, and wisdom to prevent his extremities.
Side 322 - And forasmuch as his mind gave him that, his nephews living, men would not reckon that he could have right to the realm, he thought therefore without delay to rid them, as though the killing of his kinsmen could amend his cause and make him a kindly king.
Side 35 - Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring...