Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to MacaulayGeorge Saintsbury Kegan Paul, Trench, 1885 - 367 lappuses |
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ABRAHAM COWLEY amongst Anatomy of Melancholy appear Badman beauty better bishop body born church Cicero common Conyers Middleton death desire devil died discourse divine Donwell dreams effect enemy England English prose eyes faculty fancy fear friends give hand hath heaven honour horse human Hydriotaphia JOHN BUNYAN JOHN DRYDEN Joyous Gard kind king knowledge least less literary live London look Lord man's manner Mansoul Marsfield matter means mind nation nature never observed opinion passage passions perhaps person Phalaris pleasure poetry poor prince racter reason ROBERT SOUTH Samuel Hartlib seemed Seithenyn sense Sir Ector Sir Launcelot sometimes soul spirit style suffer temper things THOMAS FULLER thou thought tion took town Trimmer truth unto verse virtue walk whole WILLIAM CHILLINGWORTH wind wise words writers
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194. lappuse - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
63. lappuse - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers...
175. lappuse - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : why then should we desire to be deceived...
96. lappuse - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
184. lappuse - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
269. lappuse - Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink ; for they are worthy.
66. lappuse - What could a man require more from a Nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a Nation of Prophets, of Sages, and of Worthies?
214. lappuse - The probability that any particular person shall ever be qualified for the employment to which he is educated, is very different in different occupations. In the greater part of mechanic trades, success is almost certain ; but very uncertain in the liberal professions. Put your son apprentice to a shoemaker, there is little doubt of his learning to make a pair of shoes : but send him to study the law, it is at least twenty to one if ever he makes such proficiency as will enable him to live by the...
32. lappuse - So that the sum of all is : ready writing makes not good writing; but good writing brings on ready writing. Yet when we think we have got the faculty, it is even then good to resist it...
164. lappuse - ... adventures. There let him work for twelve books; at the end of which you may take him out ready prepared to conquer, or to marry; it being necessary that the conclusion of an epic poem be fortunate. To make an Episode. Take any remaining adventure of your former collection, in which you could no way involve your hero; or any unfortunate accident that was too good to be thrown away; and it will be of use applied to any other person, who may be lost and evaporate in the course of the work,...