English Prose: Selections, Volume 5Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1896 - English prose literature This collection shows the growth and development of English prose by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers. |
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... heads and bare feet , and almost naked bodies , had the immediate care of the little caravan . The road was narrow , running between two broken banks of sand , and Mr. Bertram's servant rode forward , smacking his whip with an air of ...
... heads and bare feet , and almost naked bodies , had the immediate care of the little caravan . The road was narrow , running between two broken banks of sand , and Mr. Bertram's servant rode forward , smacking his whip with an air of ...
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... head to pursue his journey , Meg Merrilies , who had lagged behind the troop , unexpectedly presented herself . She was standing upon one of those high precipitous banks , which , as we before noticed , overhung the road ; so that she ...
... head to pursue his journey , Meg Merrilies , who had lagged behind the troop , unexpectedly presented herself . She was standing upon one of those high precipitous banks , which , as we before noticed , overhung the road ; so that she ...
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... head in the form of a turban , from beneath which her dark eyes flashed with uncommon lustre . Her long and tangled black hair fell in elf - locks from the folds of this singular head - gear . Her attitude was that of a sibyl in frenzy ...
... head in the form of a turban , from beneath which her dark eyes flashed with uncommon lustre . Her long and tangled black hair fell in elf - locks from the folds of this singular head - gear . Her attitude was that of a sibyl in frenzy ...
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... head with a ghastly look , and fix her eyes upon the bed which contained the coffin of her grandson , as if she had at once , and for the first time , acquired sense to com- prehend her inexpressible calamity . These alternate feelings ...
... head with a ghastly look , and fix her eyes upon the bed which contained the coffin of her grandson , as if she had at once , and for the first time , acquired sense to com- prehend her inexpressible calamity . These alternate feelings ...
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... head and body , shook her head in a manner that showed at least impatience , if not scorn of his counsel , and waved her hand slightly , but with a gesture so expressive , as to indicate to all who witnessed it a marked and disdainful ...
... head and body , shook her head in a manner that showed at least impatience , if not scorn of his counsel , and waved her hand slightly , but with a gesture so expressive , as to indicate to all who witnessed it a marked and disdainful ...
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Page 174 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 73 - It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda;' or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
Page 692 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Page 175 - Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted - ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 79 - In his loneliness and fixedness he yearneth towards the journeying Moon, and the stars that still sojourn, yet still move onward; and every where the blue sky belongs to them, and is their appointed rest, and their native country and their own natural homes, which they enter unannounced, as lords that are certainly expected and yet there is a silent joy at their arrival.
Page 452 - And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Page 479 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 453 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
Page 34 - Proud Maisie is in the wood, Walking so early. Sweet Robin sits on the bush, Singing so rarely. 'Tell me, thou bonny bird, When shall I marry me? ' 'When six braw gentlemen Kirkward shall carry ye.
Page 430 - Heathfield, recently ennobled for his memorable defence of Gibraltar against the fleets and armies of France and Spain. The long procession was closed by the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of the realm, by the great dignitaries, and by the brothers and sons of the King. Last of all came the Prince of Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing.