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... child . He studied classics indeed , but only as a means to improve his style , only to enable him to make his teaching of the Gospel more acceptable to the English people , —a work which CHAP . II . ] 13 ITS WORK IN RELIGION .
... child . He studied classics indeed , but only as a means to improve his style , only to enable him to make his teaching of the Gospel more acceptable to the English people , —a work which CHAP . II . ] 13 ITS WORK IN RELIGION .
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... style as to merit Erasmus's commendation , " Your words having birth in your heart and not on your lips , expressing with ease what others can hardly express with the greatest labour -were many Lollards , attracted no doubt by his ...
... style as to merit Erasmus's commendation , " Your words having birth in your heart and not on your lips , expressing with ease what others can hardly express with the greatest labour -were many Lollards , attracted no doubt by his ...
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... style showed direct traces of the stimulus of the Renaissance . It illustrates not only the interest taken in physical culture , but also the healthy impulse that classic culture had given to the cultivation of the native tongue . In ...
... style showed direct traces of the stimulus of the Renaissance . It illustrates not only the interest taken in physical culture , but also the healthy impulse that classic culture had given to the cultivation of the native tongue . In ...
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... style by the touchstone of Cesar and Cicero , whose purity was never soiled , no , not by the sentence of those that loved them worst . " Both the thought and the expression of Ascham and of More mark them as belonging to the quite ...
... style by the touchstone of Cesar and Cicero , whose purity was never soiled , no , not by the sentence of those that loved them worst . " Both the thought and the expression of Ascham and of More mark them as belonging to the quite ...
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... style . Only very faintly can be perceived in their works the beginnings of that self - control and self - criticism in thought and style which mark the great thinker and artist . This is one of the last gifts of culture . The ...
... style . Only very faintly can be perceived in their works the beginnings of that self - control and self - criticism in thought and style which mark the great thinker and artist . This is one of the last gifts of culture . The ...
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Page 227 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' ye. [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann'd; Tears in his -eyes, distraction in's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit...
Page 130 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Page 358 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 129 - Clarence, in steel so bright, Though but a maiden knight. Yet in that furious fight Scarce such another. Warwick in blood did wade, Oxford the foe invade, And cruel slaughter made Still as they ran up; Suffolk his axe did ply, Beaumont and Willoughby Bare them right doughtily, Ferrers and Fanhope.
Page 365 - I see them walking in an air of glory, "Whose light doth trample on my days — My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmering and decays.
Page 348 - But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession...
Page 48 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more, that in respect of it all other pleasures, in very deed, be but trifles and troubles unto me.
Page 226 - Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And. thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven.
Page 128 - They now to fight are gone, Armour on armour shone, Drum now to drum did groan, To hear was wonder ; That with the cries they make, The very earth did shake, Trumpet to trumpet spake, Thunder to thunder.
Page 223 - Would he were fatter ! But I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...