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... in poetry , so undoubtedly produced in Boccaccio the earliest example of
numerous and elegant prose . Before we trace its progress in England , it will not
be improper to advert a little to the origin and character of the language upon
which ...
... in poetry , so undoubtedly produced in Boccaccio the earliest example of
numerous and elegant prose . Before we trace its progress in England , it will not
be improper to advert a little to the origin and character of the language upon
which ...
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... not so early assume a definite character . In the midst of those troubles , its
powers were still increasing ; and , at their happy termination under Henry VII . ,
classical learning was generally introduced , a new impulse was given to the
industry ...
... not so early assume a definite character . In the midst of those troubles , its
powers were still increasing ; and , at their happy termination under Henry VII . ,
classical learning was generally introduced , a new impulse was given to the
industry ...
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It is almost impossible to appreciate the influence of these two sacred works I on
the English character , intellect , and language . They differ from all other books ,
in the peculiar circumstance of their being necessarily and frequently read or ...
It is almost impossible to appreciate the influence of these two sacred works I on
the English character , intellect , and language . They differ from all other books ,
in the peculiar circumstance of their being necessarily and frequently read or ...
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Their decisive influence upon our language is incontrovertible : they fixed it at the
soundest , the most healthy period of its progression , and they are pledges of its
immovable character , securities against the rage of innovation , and the ...
Their decisive influence upon our language is incontrovertible : they fixed it at the
soundest , the most healthy period of its progression , and they are pledges of its
immovable character , securities against the rage of innovation , and the ...
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It is the excellence of a perspicuous style to choose words of so distinct a
character , and ... and the imperfect expression of the subject is aided by a variety
of characters , breaks in the line , and other fantastical devices , the writer is
naturally ...
It is the excellence of a perspicuous style to choose words of so distinct a
character , and ... and the imperfect expression of the subject is aided by a variety
of characters , breaks in the line , and other fantastical devices , the writer is
naturally ...
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Seite 87 - Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy, and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
Seite 199 - I am now indented ; as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her siren daughters : but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Seite 12 - But he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the wellenchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner, and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue...
Seite 451 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim: Th' unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Seite 89 - HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Seite 61 - Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and insolent that they are but Abjects, and humbles them at the instant; makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepassed happiness.
Seite 88 - To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business : it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature ; and that mixture of falsehood is like allay in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent ; which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover...
Seite 196 - John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn scenes and acts with a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies : and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm.
Seite 88 - For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore...
Seite 86 - What is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness ; and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
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| Titel | Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time: with an Introduction |
| Autor/in | George Walker |
| Verlag | H. G. Bohn, 1825 |
| Original von | New York Public Library |
| Digitalisiert | 2. Nov. 2006 |
| Länge | 615 Seiten |
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