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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... present series , extend from the beginning of the century to our own day . We are tempted , in comparing these two ... presents anything like the same individual variety , or which has turned and twisted the models of the past into as ...
... present series , extend from the beginning of the century to our own day . We are tempted , in comparing these two ... presents anything like the same individual variety , or which has turned and twisted the models of the past into as ...
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... present her husband with some nourishment . His first action was to put it from him with an angry violence that frightened the child ; his next , to snatch up the boy and devour him with kisses . " Ye'll be a bra ' fallow , an ye be ...
... present her husband with some nourishment . His first action was to put it from him with an angry violence that frightened the child ; his next , to snatch up the boy and devour him with kisses . " Ye'll be a bra ' fallow , an ye be ...
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... present practice of most of the Scottish clergymen to seize this opportunity of offering a prayer , and exhortation , suitable to make an impression upon the living , while they are yet in the very presence of the relics of him whom ...
... present practice of most of the Scottish clergymen to seize this opportunity of offering a prayer , and exhortation , suitable to make an impression upon the living , while they are yet in the very presence of the relics of him whom ...
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... present among other fish - women , swore almost aloud , " His honour Monkbarns should never want sax warp of oysters in the season " ( of which fish he was understood to be fond ) , “ if she should gang to sea and dredge for them hersel ...
... present among other fish - women , swore almost aloud , " His honour Monkbarns should never want sax warp of oysters in the season " ( of which fish he was understood to be fond ) , “ if she should gang to sea and dredge for them hersel ...
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... present gave the honest woman credit for her goodness of heart , excepting her husband , who whispered to Dumbiedykes , “ That Nichil Novit of yours is but a raw hand at leading evidence , I'm thinking . What signified his bringing a ...
... present gave the honest woman credit for her goodness of heart , excepting her husband , who whispered to Dumbiedykes , “ That Nichil Novit of yours is but a raw hand at leading evidence , I'm thinking . What signified his bringing a ...
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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.