Moral and Political Dialogues: With Letters on Chivalry and Romance: by the Reverend Doctor Hurd. In Three VolumesT. Cadell in the Strand, 1776 |
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الصفحة 201
... knights , when their arms were employed on no ferious occafion . I CALL this the proper origin of Jufts and Turnaments ; for the date of them is carried no higher , as far as I can find , even in France ( where unquestionably they made ...
... knights , when their arms were employed on no ferious occafion . I CALL this the proper origin of Jufts and Turnaments ; for the date of them is carried no higher , as far as I can find , even in France ( where unquestionably they made ...
الصفحة 203
... knight- hood ; the rewards of valour ; the fplendour of equipages ; " in short , every thing that raifes our ideas of the prowess , gallantry , and magnificence of these fons of MARS , is naturally and eafily explained on this ...
... knight- hood ; the rewards of valour ; the fplendour of equipages ; " in short , every thing that raifes our ideas of the prowess , gallantry , and magnificence of these fons of MARS , is naturally and eafily explained on this ...
الصفحة 205
... Knights errant , as they were now properly styled , wandering the world over in fearch of occafions on which to exercife their generous and difinterested valour , indifferently to friends and ene- mies in distress ; Ecco quei , che le ...
... Knights errant , as they were now properly styled , wandering the world over in fearch of occafions on which to exercife their generous and difinterested valour , indifferently to friends and ene- mies in distress ; Ecco quei , che le ...
الصفحة 207
... knights and ladies most did won Of all on earth , and made a matchless paragon . FOR Faery Court means the reign of Chivalry ; which , it feems , had under- gone a fatal revolution before the age of MILTON , who tells us that Courtesy ...
... knights and ladies most did won Of all on earth , and made a matchless paragon . FOR Faery Court means the reign of Chivalry ; which , it feems , had under- gone a fatal revolution before the age of MILTON , who tells us that Courtesy ...
الصفحة 209
... knights , P knights , and was effential to their inftitu tion . CHIVALRY AND ROMANCE . 209.
... knights , P knights , and was effential to their inftitu tion . CHIVALRY AND ROMANCE . 209.
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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 328 - There was no example of any such manners remaining on the face of the Earth: And as they never did subsist but once, and are never likely to subsist again, people would be led of course to think and speak of them, as romantic, and unnatural.
الصفحة 207 - ... knights, as to give birth to the attentions of gallantry. But this gallantry would take a refined turn, not only from the...
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 267 - When an architect examines a Gothic structure by Grecian rules, he finds nothing but deformity. But the Gothic architecture has its own rules, by which when it comes to be examined, it is seen to have its merit, as well as the Grecian.
الصفحة 259 - The ancients have not much of this poetry among them ; for, indeed, almost the whole substance of it owes its original to the darkness and superstition of later ages, when pious frauds were made use of to amuse mankind, and frighten them into a sense of their duty.
الصفحة 272 - ... ideas of Unity, which have no place here; and are in every view foreign to the...
الصفحة 279 - ... his critics seem not to have been aware of it — His chief hero was not to have the twelve virtues in the degree in which the knights had each of them their own...
الصفحة 207 - Virtue fhould be plentifully found, Which of all goodly manners is the ground And roote of civil converfation : Right fo in faery court it did refound, Where courteous knights and ladies moft did won Of all on earth, and made a matchlefs paragon.
الصفحة 247 - I mean the poetry we still read, and which was founded upon it. Much has been said, and with great truth, of the felicity of Homer's age for poetical manners. But as Homer was a citizen of the world, when he had...