A Treasury of English ProseLogan Pearsall Smith Houghton Mifflin, 1920 - 237 pages |
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... given virtues to springs and fountains , to cold earth , to plants and stones , minerals , and to the excremental parts of the basest living creatures , why should we rob the beautiful Stars of their working powers ? For seeing they are ...
... given virtues to springs and fountains , to cold earth , to plants and stones , minerals , and to the excremental parts of the basest living creatures , why should we rob the beautiful Stars of their working powers ? For seeing they are ...
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... given to him that is in misery , and life unto the bitter in soul ; which long for death , but it cometh not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures ; which rejoice exceedingly , and are glad , when they can find the grave ? Job ...
... given to him that is in misery , and life unto the bitter in soul ; which long for death , but it cometh not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures ; which rejoice exceedingly , and are glad , when they can find the grave ? Job ...
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... given the horse strength ? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder ? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper ? the glory of his nostrils is terrible . He paweth in the valley , and rejoiceth in his strength ; he goeth on to meet the ...
... given the horse strength ? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder ? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper ? the glory of his nostrils is terrible . He paweth in the valley , and rejoiceth in his strength ; he goeth on to meet the ...
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... search out by wis- dom concerning all things that are done under heaven : this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith . I have seen all the 29 AUTHORISED VERSION OF THE BIBLE Vanity of Vanities.
... search out by wis- dom concerning all things that are done under heaven : this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith . I have seen all the 29 AUTHORISED VERSION OF THE BIBLE Vanity of Vanities.
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... and let thy head lack no ointment . Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity , which he hath given thee under the sun , all 31 AUTHORISED VERSION OF THE BIBLE All Things come Alike •
... and let thy head lack no ointment . Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity , which he hath given thee under the sun , all 31 AUTHORISED VERSION OF THE BIBLE All Things come Alike •
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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...