A Treasury of English ProseLogan Pearsall Smith Houghton Mifflin, 1920 - 237 pages |
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... behold , all is vanity and vexation of spirit " : but who believes it , till Death tells it to us ? It was Death which , opening the con- science of Charles the Fifth , made him enjoin his son Philip to restore Navarre ; and King ...
... behold , all is vanity and vexation of spirit " : but who believes it , till Death tells it to us ? It was Death which , opening the con- science of Charles the Fifth , made him enjoin his son Philip to restore Navarre ; and King ...
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... behold , all is vanity and vexation of spirit " : but who believes it , till Death tells it to us ? It was Death which , opening the con- science of Charles the Fifth , made him enjoin his son Philip to restore Navarre ; and King ...
... behold , all is vanity and vexation of spirit " : but who believes it , till Death tells it to us ? It was Death which , opening the con- science of Charles the Fifth , made him enjoin his son Philip to restore Navarre ; and King ...
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... behold him : lo , the people shall dwell alone , and shall not be reckoned among the nations . . . . How goodly are thy tents , O Jacob , and thy taber- nacles , O Israel ! As the valleys are they spread forth , as gardens by the ...
... behold him : lo , the people shall dwell alone , and shall not be reckoned among the nations . . . . How goodly are thy tents , O Jacob , and thy taber- nacles , O Israel ! As the valleys are they spread forth , as gardens by the ...
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... behold , the Lord passed by , and a great and strong wind rent the mountains , and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord ; but the Lord was not in the wind : and after the wind an earthquake ; but the Lord was not in the earthquake ...
... behold , the Lord passed by , and a great and strong wind rent the mountains , and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord ; but the Lord was not in the wind : and after the wind an earthquake ; but the Lord was not in the earthquake ...
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... Behold , he put no trust in his servants ; and his angels he charged with folly : how much less in them that dwell in houses of clay , whose foundation is in the dust , which are crushed before the moth ! They are destroyed from morning ...
... Behold , he put no trust in his servants ; and his angels he charged with folly : how much less in them that dwell in houses of clay , whose foundation is in the dust , which are crushed before the moth ! They are destroyed from morning ...
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Anatomy of Melancholy angels ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR beauty behold birds BLESSING OF JACOB body Canst thou charity cloud cometh creatures curse darkness dead death delight Democritus divine doth dream dust earth Eighty Sermons Elia Essays eternal everlasting evil eyes fear Fifty Sermons fire flowers gardens GEOFFREY CHAUCER GEORGE BERNARD SHAW glory grave happy hast thou hath heart heaven HENRY JAMES holy hope Ibid immortal Jerusalem JOHN DONNE JOSEPH CONRAD king labour light live look Lord melancholy mercy mind moon Muses nature never night pass pleasure poet Poetry PRAYER reason Religio Medici Religion RICHARD HOOKER ROBERT BURTON saith sing sleep soul sound spirit stars streets sweet thee thereof thine things THOMAS HOBBES thou hast thought tion trees unto vanity voice waters Wilt thou wind wisdom worm
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Page 25 - 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 28 - 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 9 - 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 27 - 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 9 - 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 29 - 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 84 - 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 68 - But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana : he is almost lost that built it.
Page 29 - 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 31 - 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...