A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of English Prose StyleSherwin Cody A. C. McClurg, 1903 - 415 Seiten |
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... Truth · Of Friendship • II . SWIFT : the Greatest English Satirist A Tale of a Tub . The Bookseller's Dedication to the Right Honourable John Lord Somers The Epistle Dedicatory to His Royal Highness Prince Posterity . Preface The Three ...
... Truth · Of Friendship • II . SWIFT : the Greatest English Satirist A Tale of a Tub . The Bookseller's Dedication to the Right Honourable John Lord Somers The Epistle Dedicatory to His Royal Highness Prince Posterity . Preface The Three ...
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... truths ; and in so far as prose ceases to be a simple vehicle for facts and state- ments of truth , and comes to depend for its suc- cess on the feeling of pleasure it produces or the sense of beauty it conveys , it is said to possess ...
... truths ; and in so far as prose ceases to be a simple vehicle for facts and state- ments of truth , and comes to depend for its suc- cess on the feeling of pleasure it produces or the sense of beauty it conveys , it is said to possess ...
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... truth is , the essay does not have artistic structure in the sense that the short story or the novel or the oration or the poem does , but only literary artistic texture , or style . ( On this latter point we have only to recall the ...
... truth is , the essay does not have artistic structure in the sense that the short story or the novel or the oration or the poem does , but only literary artistic texture , or style . ( On this latter point we have only to recall the ...
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... truth is , there is an infinite number of ways of expressing any and every conception in short , as many different ways as there are persons to express it . Laboring under the false impression that there is but one style , or , at any ...
... truth is , there is an infinite number of ways of expressing any and every conception in short , as many different ways as there are persons to express it . Laboring under the false impression that there is but one style , or , at any ...
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... truth in the most direct and simple language imaginable . A child may do that ; but the difference between a child and Bacon is that Bacon's simple truth has such profound and far - reaching applications . When a man has spent a ...
... truth in the most direct and simple language imaginable . A child may do that ; but the difference between a child and Bacon is that Bacon's simple truth has such profound and far - reaching applications . When a man has spent a ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...