The Pageant of English Prose: Being Five Hundred Passages by Three Hundred and Twenty-five AuthorsRobert Maynard Leonard |
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... matter of his devotion , he pronounces Amen three or four times to the same prayer ; and sometimes stands up when everybody else is upon their knees , to count the congregation , or see if any of his tenants are missing . I was ...
... matter of his devotion , he pronounces Amen three or four times to the same prayer ; and sometimes stands up when everybody else is upon their knees , to count the congregation , or see if any of his tenants are missing . I was ...
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... matters are come to such an extremity , that the ' squire has not said his prayers either in public or private this half - year ; and the parson threatens him , if he does not mend his manners , to pray for him in the face of the whole ...
... matters are come to such an extremity , that the ' squire has not said his prayers either in public or private this half - year ; and the parson threatens him , if he does not mend his manners , to pray for him in the face of the whole ...
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... matter , which I dare not mention to my father . Tell me , if you please , what you think of the thing . Miss Noel ( I answered ) , since it is your command that I should be silent as to that flame your glorious eyes and understanding ...
... matter , which I dare not mention to my father . Tell me , if you please , what you think of the thing . Miss Noel ( I answered ) , since it is your command that I should be silent as to that flame your glorious eyes and understanding ...
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... matter there , as learning is now the usher ; money , he is the master ; the chair itself and the disposing of the chair is his too . Eloquence ruleth in persuasion , and so do riches . When Tertullus had laboured a goodly flowing ...
... matter there , as learning is now the usher ; money , he is the master ; the chair itself and the disposing of the chair is his too . Eloquence ruleth in persuasion , and so do riches . When Tertullus had laboured a goodly flowing ...
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... matter in hand , or else for writing it in the English tongue , this answer I may make him , that what the best of ... matter in hand . And as for the Latin or Greek tongue , everything is so excellently done in them that none can do ...
... matter in hand , or else for writing it in the English tongue , this answer I may make him , that what the best of ... matter in hand . And as for the Latin or Greek tongue , everything is so excellently done in them that none can do ...
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Page 447 - I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Page 31 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Page 33 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Page 551 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 681 - For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground : he hath no form nor comeliness ; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Page 446 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.
Page 222 - Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.
Page 552 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 683 - Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away....
Page 551 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.