A Treasury of English ProseLogan Pearsall Smith Houghton Mifflin, 1920 - 237 pages |
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... fast flowers of their smells ; so that you may walk by a whole row of them , and find nothing of their sweetness ; yea , though it be in a morning's dew . Bays likewise yield no smell as they I I FRANCIS BACON Solitude The Breath of ...
... fast flowers of their smells ; so that you may walk by a whole row of them , and find nothing of their sweetness ; yea , though it be in a morning's dew . Bays likewise yield no smell as they I I FRANCIS BACON Solitude The Breath of ...
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... walk or tread . - Essays : Of Gardens . THE LONGING FOR DEATH DEATH arrives graciously only to such as sit in dark- ness , or lie heavy burthened with grief and irons ; to the poor Christian that sits bound in the galley ; to despairful ...
... walk or tread . - Essays : Of Gardens . THE LONGING FOR DEATH DEATH arrives graciously only to such as sit in dark- ness , or lie heavy burthened with grief and irons ; to the poor Christian that sits bound in the galley ; to despairful ...
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... walk ; and that it should hardly be known , who was to direct the unsettled State ; the appearance of Your Majesty , as of the Sun in his strength , instantly dispelled those supposed and surmised mists , and gave unto all that were ...
... walk ; and that it should hardly be known , who was to direct the unsettled State ; the appearance of Your Majesty , as of the Sun in his strength , instantly dispelled those supposed and surmised mists , and gave unto all that were ...
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... walk through the valley of the shadow of death , I will fear no evil : for thou art with me ; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me . Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies : thou anointest my head with oil ...
... walk through the valley of the shadow of death , I will fear no evil : for thou art with me ; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me . Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies : thou anointest my head with oil ...
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... walk alone in some solitary grove , betwixt wood and water , by a brookside , to meditate upon some delightsome and pleasant subject , which shall affect them most ; amabilis insania , and mentis gratis- simus error . A most ...
... walk alone in some solitary grove , betwixt wood and water , by a brookside , to meditate upon some delightsome and pleasant subject , which shall affect them most ; amabilis insania , and mentis gratis- simus error . A most ...
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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...