Addison is properly a moral satirist, and his pen did much more than the pulpit to civilize the age and make virtue the fashion.
After eighteen months' imprisonment without pen or books, he was strangled and his body was burned at the stake.
After his release, he settled down to his life's work of spreading the Gospel by bothpen and tongue.
His imagination was so wide and his pen so facile that he has been called a seventeenth-century prose Shakespeare.
When the time for literature came, Chaucer found ready for his pen the strongest, sincerest, and most flexible language that ever expressed a poet's thought.
For the greater part of his life, he was often occupied withpen and ink quarrels.
Hearing nothing, and with vague uncertainty at his heart, the unhappy man entered his own dark chamber, threw off his clothes and flung himself into bed, wretched beyond any power of my pen to describe.
Beyond her pretty image, reflected from the distance, sat a man with a pen in his hand, as if just arrested in the act of writing.
While now my pen moves upon the paper, move Thou upon the hearts of the people, who have long been favoured with hearing the voice of Thy ministers.
Mr. Edmund Gosse kindly allowed us to reproduce his Rossetti, one of the strongest pieces of work, I think, that artist ever did in pen and ink.
The drawings for the "Caprices" are in pen and wash, and are as much finer than the aquatints made from them, as the aquatints are superior to the caricatures of any of his contemporaries.
The mask sat down at the organ, and took a pen and a sheet of foolscap.
Sharpen your pen and bruise his heel; you are splendid at it.
The platform down below was now beginning to fill with young men armed with pen and paper.
Then, being dressed, to church; and after church pulled my Lady Pen and Mrs. Markham into my house to dinner, and Sir J.
He believes it will be done; but that which I fear is that Pen will be Comptroller, which I shall grudge a little.
At noon home, and there dined with me my Lady Penonly and W.
Hewer at a haunch of venison boiled, where pretty merry, only my wife vexed me a little about demanding money to go with my Lady Pen to the Exchange to lay out.
My Lady Pen did give us a tarte and other things, and so broke up late and I to bed.
At night into the garden to my wife and Lady Pen and Pegg, and Creed, who staid with them till to at night.
Her throat ached with repressed sobs as she took the brand-new quill pen from the white hand extended to her, with a little shy: "Thank you.
The clergyman was blotting Christine's new name in the register; he looked up at her with short-sighted eyes, a quill pen held between his teeth.
When he got home he sat down at his desk and stared at the pen and ink for some moments undecidedly; then he began to write.
The most valuable history of the Revolution from a British pen is Gordon's well-known work.
The answers were chiefly from the industrious pen of Samuel Adams.
Instructions from Hamilton's pen were addressed to Sullivan", etc.
This was increased by the falling of one of the icicles, which went like a blue javelin into the crevasse beside him.
She was not aware that her man of business had already had these resources appraised, and that they no more belonged to her at that moment than if they had been part of the personal estate of the celebrated man in the moon.
The pen records time past and present both: Skill brings forth books, and books is nurse to truth.
The action of the pen will doubtless imprint an idea on the mind as well as on the paper: but I much question whether the benefits of this laborious method are adequate to the waste of time; and I must agree with Dr.
A graphic Account of the Colosseum, from the apt pen of Mr. Britton, the architect.
A pair of these birds have now five young ones: the female at different times dropped nine eggs in various places in the pen in which she was confined.
To the inquiry of the officer in charge, Penlamely explained that he had bumped his nose into something hard in a poorly lighted passageway.
As Pen leaped to his feet after the last turn, one of his hands struck Darrin forcefully.
That'll break his heart as an avowed greaser," Pen told himself.
Then, if he tries to carry it any further, Pen will collide with one of my fists!
But Dave, eyeing him closely, waited until Penwas barely three feet away.
Then, out of chivalry, Dave dropped back, to give Pen a few moments, in case he needed them, to get his wits back.
I'll wait until Pen has had time to see things straight.
But see here, Dave, I don't believe Pen will do anything openly.
That fellow Penis bound to go the whole limit with you.
Clenching his fists and with the boxer's attitude, Pen aimed two swift blows at Darrin.
Pennington's eyes gleamed when he caught sight of Darrin, Dalzell and Farley--for Pen had a scheme of his own in mind.
Once or twice Pen put out his hand to touch the rod, but as quickly reconsidered and drew back his hand.
He all but had you, and there isn't any need of making Pen a present of the meeting.
It was the gold pen your father used to carry about with him in his waistcoat pocket.
But it seems he felt hot when he returned to the berth, after writing this letter in the saloon, for I found his waistcoat hanging on one of the hooks, and the pen was in the pocket.
So it was that Harry Ringrose took finally to his pen towards the close of the most momentous year of his existence; for four years from that date there was but one sort of dramatic interest in his life.
