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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... sense than strict etymology would allow - became a living force , and was compelled to develop a style of its own . It had to be terse and impressive , to have a certain swing and march of words ; and , almost insensibly , it fell into ...
... sense than strict etymology would allow - became a living force , and was compelled to develop a style of its own . It had to be terse and impressive , to have a certain swing and march of words ; and , almost insensibly , it fell into ...
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... sense of proportion and harmony , we must hesitate to question the validity of these laws in their personal application . We may , however , be permitted to regret that the resources of such genius were not sufficient to find expression ...
... sense of proportion and harmony , we must hesitate to question the validity of these laws in their personal application . We may , however , be permitted to regret that the resources of such genius were not sufficient to find expression ...
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... sense . But when we have fully recognised all this , we must admit certain vigorous elements in the prose of our own day . The style which slavishly imitates marked individual peculiarities , and which attempts , at second - hand , to ...
... sense . But when we have fully recognised all this , we must admit certain vigorous elements in the prose of our own day . The style which slavishly imitates marked individual peculiarities , and which attempts , at second - hand , to ...
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... sense to com- prehend her inexpressible calamity . These alternate feelings of embarrassment , wonder , and grief , seemed to succeed each other more than once upon her torpid features . But she spoke not a word neither had she shed a ...
... sense to com- prehend her inexpressible calamity . These alternate feelings of embarrassment , wonder , and grief , seemed to succeed each other more than once upon her torpid features . But she spoke not a word neither had she shed a ...
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... sense of decency and the remonstrances of his womankind , be hounded out , as he called it , to hear . him preach . But he regularly took shame to himself for his absence when Blattergowl came to Monkbarns to dinner , to which he was ...
... sense of decency and the remonstrances of his womankind , be hounded out , as he called it , to hear . him preach . But he regularly took shame to himself for his absence when Blattergowl came to Monkbarns to dinner , to which he was ...
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Adam Blair admiration appeared beautiful born called century character Charles Lamb Charlotte Brontë charm Church colour criticism death delight Domrémy Edinburgh Edinburgh Review effect England English essays eyes fancy father feeling French friends genius GEORGE SAINTSBURY give hand heard heart heaven honour human humour imagination infinite intellectual Jane Austen kind lady less letters light literary literature living look Lord Lord Byron Lothair Macaulay manner matter mind Miss moral nation nature never night novels once passages passed passion Peninsular War perhaps persons Philistines philosophy poet poetry political poor prose Scotland Scottish seemed Seithenyn sense society sometimes speak spirit stood strong style Sydney Smith taste thee things thou thought Tiny Tim tion truth turn voice Washington Irving whist whole words writings young
Popular passages
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.