A Treasury of English ProseLogan Pearsall Smith Houghton Mifflin, 1920 - 237 pages |
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... Never - When a man has arrived at a certain ripeness in intellect any one grand and spiritual passage serves him as a starting - post towards all the " two - and - thirty Palaces . " How happy is such a voyage of conception , what ...
... Never - When a man has arrived at a certain ripeness in intellect any one grand and spiritual passage serves him as a starting - post towards all the " two - and - thirty Palaces . " How happy is such a voyage of conception , what ...
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... never continueth in one stay . In the midst of life we are in death : of whom may we seek for succour , but of Thee , O Lord , who for our sins art justly displeased ? The Order for the Burial of the Dead . I WILL CONSIDER FOR I will ...
... never continueth in one stay . In the midst of life we are in death : of whom may we seek for succour , but of Thee , O Lord , who for our sins art justly displeased ? The Order for the Burial of the Dead . I WILL CONSIDER FOR I will ...
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... never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas , that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet is sung but by some blind crowder , with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil - apparelled in the dust ...
... never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas , that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet is sung but by some blind crowder , with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil - apparelled in the dust ...
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... never so spotless , if it come to the arbitrament of swords , can try it out with all unspotted soldiers . Some , peradventure , have on them the guilt of pre- meditated and contrived murder ; some , of beguil- ing virgins with the ...
... never so spotless , if it come to the arbitrament of swords , can try it out with all unspotted soldiers . Some , peradventure , have on them the guilt of pre- meditated and contrived murder ; some , of beguil- ing virgins with the ...
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... never saw light . There the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary be at rest . There the prisoners rest to- gether ; they hear not the voice of the oppressor . The small and great are there ; and the servant is free from his ...
... never saw light . There the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the weary be at rest . There the prisoners rest to- gether ; they hear not the voice of the oppressor . The small and great are there ; and the servant is free from his ...
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Abdera agery Anatomy of Melancholy Angels Areopagitica ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR beauty behold birds Canst thou chap CHARLES LAMB Church cloud creature darkness dead death delight Democritus divine dream dust earth Eighty Sermons ELAGABALUS Elia Essays eternal evanescent everlasting evil eyes face fancy fear feel fire Fleet Street flower garden GEORGE BERNARD SHAW glory goeth grave happy hath heart heaven holy hope human Ibid immortal Jerusalem JOSEPH CONRAD King labour light live look Lord mankind melancholy mighty mind moon mortal Muses nation nature never night pass passion pleasure poet poetry poor reason Religio Medici religion Shacklewell sing sleep sorrow soul sound spirit stars streets Suspiria de Profundis sweet thee thereof thine things thou hast thought tion trees truth unto vanity virtue voice walk waters wind wisdom words worm
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Page 31 - All things come alike to all : there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked ; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not : as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 34 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming ; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Page 19 - And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, C 261 3 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...
Page 15 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty; let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we — steal, P.
Page 33 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
Page 15 - I think the king is but a man, as I am : the violet smells to him, as it doth to me ; the element shows to him, as it doth to me ; all his senses have but human conditions ; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man...
Page 35 - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns ; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Page 90 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 35 - Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers...
Page 87 - God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.