The Oxford Book of English ProseArthur Quiller-Couch Clarendon Press, 1925 - 1092 páginas |
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... unto other confynyes of the superficialtee of the erthe beyonde . And whan men gon beyonde tho journeys toward YNDE and to the foreyn yles , all is envyronynge the roundnesse of the erthe and of the see under oure contrees on this half ...
... unto other confynyes of the superficialtee of the erthe beyonde . And whan men gon beyonde tho journeys toward YNDE and to the foreyn yles , all is envyronynge the roundnesse of the erthe and of the see under oure contrees on this half ...
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... unto tyme that a knyght come that is so hardy that dar come to hire and kisse hire on the mouth , and than schall sche turne agen to hire owne kynde and ben a womman agen , but after that sche schall not lyven longe ... And it is not ...
... unto tyme that a knyght come that is so hardy that dar come to hire and kisse hire on the mouth , and than schall sche turne agen to hire owne kynde and ben a womman agen , but after that sche schall not lyven longe ... And it is not ...
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... unto his felowes and let make him knyght , and come agen upon the morwe , and sche scholde come out of the cave before him , and thanne come and kysse hire on the mowth . ' And have no drede , for I schall do the no maner harm , all be ...
... unto his felowes and let make him knyght , and come agen upon the morwe , and sche scholde come out of the cave before him , and thanne come and kysse hire on the mowth . ' And have no drede , for I schall do the no maner harm , all be ...
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... unto me delyverd , whyche copye Syr Thomas Malorye dyd take oute of certeyn bookes of frensshe and reduced it in to Englysshe . And I accordyng to my copye have doon sette it in enprynte , to the entente that 12 of the ix Worthy ) of ...
... unto me delyverd , whyche copye Syr Thomas Malorye dyd take oute of certeyn bookes of frensshe and reduced it in to Englysshe . And I accordyng to my copye have doon sette it in enprynte , to the entente that 12 of the ix Worthy ) of ...
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... spryngeth and floryssheth in lusty dedes . For it gyvéth unto al lovers courage , that lusty moneth of May , in some thyng to constrayne hym to some 11 renomed ) renowned maner of thyng more in that moneth than in ony 25 WILLIAM CAXTON.
... spryngeth and floryssheth in lusty dedes . For it gyvéth unto al lovers courage , that lusty moneth of May , in some thyng to constrayne hym to some 11 renomed ) renowned maner of thyng more in that moneth than in ony 25 WILLIAM CAXTON.
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Página 190 - Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war, as is of every man, against every man.
Página 274 - I am going to my Father's, and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought his battles who now will be my rewarder. When the day that he must go hence was come, many accompanied him to the river side, into which as he went he...
Página 139 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Página 284 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 225 - Methinks I see, in my mind, a noble and puissant nation rousing herself, like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Página 222 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Página 133 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Página 318 - It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand...
Página 661 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?
Página 353 - The bridge thou seest, said he, is Human Life : consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which added to those that were entire made up the number about a hundred.