Moral and political dialogues: being the substance of several conversations between divers eminent persons, with critical and explanatory notes by the editor [R. Hurd]. With letters on chivalry and romance by mr. Hurd, المجلد 3 |
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... less than the price paid for it , our principles and our morals . And I doubt the truth is , that this degeneracy in both was the ufual acquifition of our travelled youth , and the improvement , your Lordship speaks of , only the acci ...
... less than the price paid for it , our principles and our morals . And I doubt the truth is , that this degeneracy in both was the ufual acquifition of our travelled youth , and the improvement , your Lordship speaks of , only the acci ...
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... less eafy , and the fuccefs more un- certain , when we enter upon this busi nefs late in life ; when intractable hu- mours have gathered ftrength , and the unfocial manner is become habitual to us . Whatever may be objected to the ...
... less eafy , and the fuccefs more un- certain , when we enter upon this busi nefs late in life ; when intractable hu- mours have gathered ftrength , and the unfocial manner is become habitual to us . Whatever may be objected to the ...
الصفحة 222
... less would I impofe the ungrateful task upon you . Thanks to the curiofity of certain painful col- lectors , this knowledge may be obtained at a cheaper rate . And I think it fuffi- cient to refer you to a learned and very elaborate ...
... less would I impofe the ungrateful task upon you . Thanks to the curiofity of certain painful col- lectors , this knowledge may be obtained at a cheaper rate . And I think it fuffi- cient to refer you to a learned and very elaborate ...
الصفحة 252
... less re- fuctantly into my fentiments , if you re- flect , " THAT the thick and troubled ftream of fuperftition , which flowed fo plentifully in the claffic ages , has been conftantly deepening and darkening by the confluence of thofe ...
... less re- fuctantly into my fentiments , if you re- flect , " THAT the thick and troubled ftream of fuperftition , which flowed fo plentifully in the claffic ages , has been conftantly deepening and darkening by the confluence of thofe ...
الصفحة 258
... less moment , should not be overlooked , fince ( as the poet well obferves of them ) though they be but minutes in ceremony , yet , they make the act more dark and full of horror . THUS MUCH , then , may ferve for a caft of SHAKESPEAR'S ...
... less moment , should not be overlooked , fince ( as the poet well obferves of them ) though they be but minutes in ceremony , yet , they make the act more dark and full of horror . THUS MUCH , then , may ferve for a caft of SHAKESPEAR'S ...
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abfurd accompliſhed adventures againſt almoſt antient ARIOSTO beft beſt buſineſs cafe character Chivalry circumſtances civility claffic confideration conftitution converfation Crufades defign difcipline Faery Queen faid fame fancies faſhionable fatire feem feen fenfe ferve feudal feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould focieties fome fomething foreign travel fpeak fpirit ftate ftill ftory ftudies fubject fuch fuperftition fuperior fuppofe furely fyftem genius Gothic Gothic fictions himſelf Iliad inftance itſelf juſt knights knowledge leaft learning leaſt lefs LETTER LOCKE LORD SHAFTESBURY Lordship mafters manners ment mind moft moral moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary obfervation occafion paffed paffion perfons philofopher pleaſe poem poet poffible politenefs prefent proper purpoſe queſtion racter reafon refpect Romance ſcene ſchools Sir TOPAZ SPENSER ſtate ſtill ſtory ſtudy TASSO taſte thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion TOPAZ truth underſtand Univerſities uſe virtue young youth
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الصفحة 254 - 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 197 - ... knights, as to give birth to the attentions of gallantry. But this gallantry would take a refined turn, not only from the...
الصفحة 250 - 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 255 - 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 324 - The only favourable circumftance that attended him (and this no doubt encouraged, if it did not produce his untimely project) was, that he was fomewhat befriended in thefe...
الصفحة 252 - Under this idea then of a Gothic, not classical poem, the Faerie Queene is to be read and criticized. And on these principles, it would not be difficult to unfold its merit in another way than has been hitherto attempted.
الصفحة 259 - ... 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...
الصفحة 270 - This was the poet's moral ; and what way of expressing this moral in the history but by making Prince Arthur appear in each adventure, and in a manner subordinate to its proper hero ? Thus, though inferior to each in his own specific virtue, he is superior to all, by uniting...
الصفحة 250 - There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it; the churchyards were all haunted; every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it; and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit.
الصفحة 237 - Liberata into competition with the Iliad. So far as the heroic and Gothic manners are the same, the pictures of each, if well taken, must be equally entertaining. But I go further, and maintain that the circumstances in which they differ are clearly to the advantage of the Gothic designers.