Paralelismus patří v anglické literatuře mezi hojně využívané prostředky.
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Charles Dickens "A Tale of Two Cities"
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way."
William Shakespeare "As You Like It" (Jacques' monologue):
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts: his acts being seven ages. At first the infant, mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like snail unwillingly to school. Then the lover, sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad made to his mistress' eyebrow."
John Donne "Meditation XVII":
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
Virginia Woolf "Mrs. Dalloway":
"She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day. Not that she thought herself clever, or much out of the ordinary. How she had got through life on the few twigs of knowledge Fräulein Daniels gave them she could not think. She knew nothing; no language, no history; she scarcely read a book now, except memoirs in bed."
George Orwell "1984":
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. These were the slogans of the Party; these were words written in lucid style on the white face of the Ministry of Truth, these were promises carved in stone above the dreams of citizens, these were the truths that could not be questioned."
Mary Shelley "Frankenstein":
"Like one who, on a lonely road, doth walk in fear and dread, and, having once turned round, walks on, and turns no more his head; because he knows a frightful fiend doth close behind him tread. I now found that I had turned myself towards the same pursuit that had caused my earlier solitude, that had driven me to desperation, that had made me both creator and monster."
Emily Brontë "Wuthering Heights":
"Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!"
Thomas Hardy "Tess of the d'Urbervilles":
"In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things, the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving, the woman seldom meets the man at the right moment, nature's clock not synchronizing with the clock of civilization, humanity's clocks not coinciding with the emotional clock ticking in each breast."
Joseph Conrad "Heart of Darkness":
"I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself. I saw the strength of his conviction, the power of his determination, the terror of his desire."
Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice":
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife; that a young woman must be in want of such a man; that families must be in want of both; and that neighborhoods must be in want of families."
