The Promus of Formularies and EleganciesLongmans, Green and Company, 1883 - 628 pages |
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... English language . On one point also I must honestly confess that I am a convert to the author . I had formerly thought that , con- sidering the popularity of Shakespeare's Plays , it was difficult to explain the total absence from ...
... English language . On one point also I must honestly confess that I am a convert to the author . I had formerly thought that , con- sidering the popularity of Shakespeare's Plays , it was difficult to explain the total absence from ...
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... English , they may do something to improve and enrich their style . Analogy and antithesis , antithesis and analogy , these are the secrets of the Baconian force ; and although we cannot bring to the use of these instruments the ...
... English , they may do something to improve and enrich their style . Analogy and antithesis , antithesis and analogy , these are the secrets of the Baconian force ; and although we cannot bring to the use of these instruments the ...
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... English language as exhibited in the works of Shakespeare , and how the proverbs , not only of our own nation but also of the Latin language , popularised in our schools by the reading of Erasmus , were becoming part and parcel of English ...
... English language as exhibited in the works of Shakespeare , and how the proverbs , not only of our own nation but also of the Latin language , popularised in our schools by the reading of Erasmus , were becoming part and parcel of English ...
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... English point of view ; but , on the other hand , to the critical philologian as confessedly imperfect , to be ... English public a work undertaken and completed in spite of unwonted difficulties of all kinds , with a result which ...
... English point of view ; but , on the other hand , to the critical philologian as confessedly imperfect , to be ... English public a work undertaken and completed in spite of unwonted difficulties of all kinds , with a result which ...
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... English and Foreign Proverbs - The Adagia ' of Erasmus - Bacon's erroneous theory of flame - Metaphors and Similes - Turns of Speech and Single Words- Mottoes to Chapters of Meditation ' -'Antitheta'- ' Play ' - Morning and Evening ...
... English and Foreign Proverbs - The Adagia ' of Erasmus - Bacon's erroneous theory of flame - Metaphors and Similes - Turns of Speech and Single Words- Mottoes to Chapters of Meditation ' -'Antitheta'- ' Play ' - Morning and Evening ...
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Page 471 - Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead ; Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Page 485 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all.
Page 94 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 298 - God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day ; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
Page 427 - Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety : other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry, Where most she satisfies ; for vilest things Become themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
Page 433 - O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give...
Page 188 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — to thine own self be true ; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Page 104 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty, guilty!
Page 210 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 463 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give, Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; And vice sometimes by action dignified.