Moral and Political Dialogues: With Letters on Chivalry and Romance, المجلد 3T. Cadell, 1776 |
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... genius , as another confiderable bene fit refulting from this way of foreign ledua cation . STILL there are higher things in view ( for , now have ventured thus far in thei dogmatic tone , I find myself , like our au thorized teachers ...
... genius , as another confiderable bene fit refulting from this way of foreign ledua cation . STILL there are higher things in view ( for , now have ventured thus far in thei dogmatic tone , I find myself , like our au thorized teachers ...
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... genius has been exerted in other things . We have been folicitous to procure a just taste in policy and go- vernment , and have at length fucceeded in this first and highest emulation . It may now be proper to apply the liberty , we ...
... genius has been exerted in other things . We have been folicitous to procure a just taste in policy and go- vernment , and have at length fucceeded in this first and highest emulation . It may now be proper to apply the liberty , we ...
الصفحة 59
... fauns and fatyrs dance around her . Yet ftill fhe affumes a fort of mock- fovereignty ; and , under the new name of Genius of the Schools , prefides , in ful- len len majefty , over her numerous , fervile , awe FOREIGN TRAVEL . 59.
... fauns and fatyrs dance around her . Yet ftill fhe affumes a fort of mock- fovereignty ; and , under the new name of Genius of the Schools , prefides , in ful- len len majefty , over her numerous , fervile , awe FOREIGN TRAVEL . 59.
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... genius , to feize the principles of know- ledge at once , and to grow wife , as we may fay , by intuition . But the common fort of minds are of another make . It is . by flow steps only that they arrive at knowledge ; and , if you ftop ...
... genius , to feize the principles of know- ledge at once , and to grow wife , as we may fay , by intuition . But the common fort of minds are of another make . It is . by flow steps only that they arrive at knowledge ; and , if you ftop ...
الصفحة 82
... genius and application , may not poffibly fucceed in it . I demand an education , which may ordinarily pro- duce ufeful and able men : your Lord- ship ship is providing only for , what comes of itself 82 ON THE USES OF.
... genius and application , may not poffibly fucceed in it . I demand an education , which may ordinarily pro- duce ufeful and able men : your Lord- ship ship is providing only for , what comes of itself 82 ON THE USES OF.
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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...