Moral and Political Dialogues: With Letters on Chivalry and Romance, المجلد 3T. Cadell, 1776 |
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... Lordship's example , I con- fess , ftands in my way . But if your own education , which was conducted in this form , and creates a prejudice for it , be pleaded against me , I may ftill fay , that the argument extends no further than to ...
... Lordship's example , I con- fess , ftands in my way . But if your own education , which was conducted in this form , and creates a prejudice for it , be pleaded against me , I may ftill fay , that the argument extends no further than to ...
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... Lordship , I think , will do well to put philofophy out of the question . There is fo much to be faid againft Travel in that view , that the matter would clearly be determined against you . It is by other rules , and what are called the ...
... Lordship , I think , will do well to put philofophy out of the question . There is fo much to be faid againft Travel in that view , that the matter would clearly be determined against you . It is by other rules , and what are called the ...
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... Lordship's old Sages . Yet one of them , who deferved that name the best , was no great Traveller . I remember to have read , that SOCRATES had never ftirred out of Athens ; and that , when his his admirers would fometimes afk him why ...
... Lordship's old Sages . Yet one of them , who deferved that name the best , was no great Traveller . I remember to have read , that SOCRATES had never ftirred out of Athens ; and that , when his his admirers would fometimes afk him why ...
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... lordship to make the most of these refpectable au- thorities for the ufe of travelling , it must still be remembered , that they are wide of our prefent purpose . They were Sages , that travelled : and we are now inquiring , whether ...
... lordship to make the most of these refpectable au- thorities for the ufe of travelling , it must still be remembered , that they are wide of our prefent purpose . They were Sages , that travelled : and we are now inquiring , whether ...
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... Lordship , without doubt , is difpofed to divert yourself with them . For , if they brought any thing with them from France , befides the dress of its follies and vices ( excepting always the facred bab- ble of their language ) , it is ...
... Lordship , without doubt , is difpofed to divert yourself with them . For , if they brought any thing with them from France , befides the dress of its follies and vices ( excepting always the facred bab- ble of their language ) , it is ...
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الصفحة 265 - Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made hell grant what love did seek. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
الصفحة 264 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
الصفحة 260 - And without more words you will readily apprehend that the fancies of our modern bards are not only more gallant, but, on a change of the scene, more sublime, more terrible, more alarming than those of the classic fablers. In a word, you will find that the manners they paint, and the superstitions they adopt, are the more poetical for being Gothic.
الصفحة 263 - Yet we see thro' all his poetry, where his enthusiasm flames out most, a certain predilection for the legends of chivalry before the fables of Greece. This circumstance, you know, has given offence to the austerer and more mechanical critics.
الصفحة 304 - THUS, in the poet's world, all is marvellous and extraordinary; yet not unnatural in one fenfe, as it agrees to the conceptions that are readily entertained of thefe magical and wonder-working natures. THIS trite maxim of following "Nature is further miftaken, in applying it indifcriminately to all forts of poetry.
الصفحة 145 - America, and at the Cape of Good Hope. He may then examine how she appears...
الصفحة 272 - ... ideas of Unity, which have no place here; and are in every view foreign to the...
الصفحة 300 - They think it enough, if they can but bring you to imagine the possibility of them.
الصفحة 302 - Men of cold fancies and philosophical dispositions object to this kind of poetry, that it has not probability enough to affect the imagination. But to this it may be answered, that we are sure, in general, there are many intellectual beings in the World besides ourselves, and several species of spirits...
الصفحة 269 - ... for all their grievances. This was the real practice, in the days of pure and ancient chivalry. And an image of this practice was afterwards kept up in the...