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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... off , in the dispute , with any advantage . LORD SHAFTESBURY . YET philofophy was not always of this mind . You know , when the best proficients proficients in that fcience gave a coun- tenance to this 10 ON THE USES OF.
... off , in the dispute , with any advantage . LORD SHAFTESBURY . YET philofophy was not always of this mind . You know , when the best proficients proficients in that fcience gave a coun- tenance to this 10 ON THE USES OF.
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... mind with regard to the improvements he might be expected to bring back with him . But let him hear and obferve a little , as well as fee ; and methinks a youth of eighteen might pick up fome- thing of value , though he should not re ...
... mind with regard to the improvements he might be expected to bring back with him . But let him hear and obferve a little , as well as fee ; and methinks a youth of eighteen might pick up fome- thing of value , though he should not re ...
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... mind , as of the body , de- pended on the use of fuch liberty ; or if it were true , that one could as little help breathing the air of vice , as that of the heavens . But , though I have heard much of the dangers , to which virtue is ...
... mind , as of the body , de- pended on the use of fuch liberty ; or if it were true , that one could as little help breathing the air of vice , as that of the heavens . But , though I have heard much of the dangers , to which virtue is ...
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... minds , when you have attended to them . MR . LOCKE . WE fhall fee that in due time . For the prefent , the ferious air , you affume , fo different from your wonted manner , fecures my attention . 3 LORD LORD SHAFTESBURY . I CANNOT tell ...
... minds , when you have attended to them . MR . LOCKE . WE fhall fee that in due time . For the prefent , the ferious air , you affume , fo different from your wonted manner , fecures my attention . 3 LORD LORD SHAFTESBURY . I CANNOT tell ...
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... mind , kept uncultivated . Self - love , which makes fo predominant a part in the con- stitution of man , that some sufferers by its exceffes have mistaken it for the fole spring of all his actions , naturally engen . ders these vices ...
... mind , kept uncultivated . Self - love , which makes fo predominant a part in the con- stitution of man , that some sufferers by its exceffes have mistaken it for the fole spring of all his actions , naturally engen . ders these vices ...
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abfurd accompliſhed adventures againſt almoſt anſwer antient ARIOSTO beft beſt buſineſs cafe character Chivalry circumſtances claffic confideration converfation defign difcipline eſpecially faid Fairy Queen fame fancies faſhionable fatire fcene feem feen fenfe ferve feudal fhall fhew fhould focieties fome fomething foon foreign travel fpirit ftate ftill ftories ftudies fubject fuch fuperftition fuperior fuppofe furely fyftem genius Gothic Gothic fictions guife himſelf Iliad inftance inftruction itſelf juft juſt knights knowledge laft leaft learning leaſt lefs LETTER LOCKE LORD SHAFTESBURY Lordship mafter manners mind moft moral moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary obfervation occafion paffion perfons philofopher pleaſe poem poet polite prefent proper purpoſe queftion racter reafon refpect reft Romance ſay ſchools ſenſe ſhall Sir TOPAZ ſome SPENSER ſtate ſtill ſtudy TASSO taſte thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion TOPAZ underſtand Univerſities uſe virtue young youth
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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...