Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 - Authors, English |
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... shew you further , ye would hear him ( wherein you were much to be commended ) Upon these considerations , and for the desire I have to unity , I have thought myself bound to communicate to you that which I have read in the matter of ...
... shew you further , ye would hear him ( wherein you were much to be commended ) Upon these considerations , and for the desire I have to unity , I have thought myself bound to communicate to you that which I have read in the matter of ...
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... master ( God save him ) our true just king , a tyrant ; and yet in talk he might shew , that a tyrant signified some- time a king . But speech is regarded in his present 7 signification , which I doubt not ye can consider 10 GARDINER .
... master ( God save him ) our true just king , a tyrant ; and yet in talk he might shew , that a tyrant signified some- time a king . But speech is regarded in his present 7 signification , which I doubt not ye can consider 10 GARDINER .
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... shew how a thing continued from the beginning , as holy water and images have done , may be well used , then to follow the light rash eloquence , which is ever ad manum , to mock and improve that is established , & c . & c . Your loving ...
... shew how a thing continued from the beginning , as holy water and images have done , may be well used , then to follow the light rash eloquence , which is ever ad manum , to mock and improve that is established , & c . & c . Your loving ...
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... shews the advantages of personi- fication in enlivening a composition . ' • Sometimes it is good to make God , the country , or some one town , to speak ; and look what we would say in our own person , to frame the whole tale to them ...
... shews the advantages of personi- fication in enlivening a composition . ' • Sometimes it is good to make God , the country , or some one town , to speak ; and look what we would say in our own person , to frame the whole tale to them ...
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... shew my simple and plain dealing therein . One John Stow - of whom I will say no evil , although he hath greatly provoked me thereunto , as by writing of an epistle against me , stuffed with ragged eloquence and uncourteous terms ...
... shew my simple and plain dealing therein . One John Stow - of whom I will say no evil , although he hath greatly provoked me thereunto , as by writing of an epistle against me , stuffed with ragged eloquence and uncourteous terms ...
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Page 108 - ... 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 ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste...
Page 370 - Equity is a Roguish thing, for Law we have a measure, know what to trust to, Equity is according to the Conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the Standard for the measure, we call [a Foot] a Chancellor's Foot, what an uncertain Measure would this be?
Page 255 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 72 - He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do; and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
Page 103 - ... comfort : here a shepherd's boy piping as though he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice's music.
Page 351 - A vast confusion of vows, wishes, actions, edicts, petitions, lawsuits, pleas, laws, proclamations, complaints, grievances are daily brought to our ears. New books every day, pamphlets, currantoes, stories, whole catalogues of volumes of all sorts, new paradoxes, opinions, schisms, heresies, controversies in philosophy, religion, etc.
Page 103 - There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees : humble valleys whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers ; meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers ; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so...
Page 127 - I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them, and surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them, the which it is great pity to see abused, to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which with good usage would serve to adorn and beautify virtue.
Page 330 - For a man to — write well, there are required three necessaries — to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
Page 332 - Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. But we must \<> not be too frequent with the mint, every day coining, nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages; since the chief virtue of a style is perspicuity, and nothing so vicious in it as to need an interpreter.