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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... must be under , in debating this point with you ? When have I been able to diffent from you in any question of morals or policy ? and especially what chance for my doing it in this inftance , when you know the bias which my own ...
... must be under , in debating this point with you ? When have I been able to diffent from you in any question of morals or policy ? and especially what chance for my doing it in this inftance , when you know the bias which my own ...
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... must be owned , is very true . But as it is not my intention to fubmit the following draught to fuch critics , you , who know me , will accept this recital , made in my own way , and pretty much as it paffed . You may well be trusted to ...
... must be owned , is very true . But as it is not my intention to fubmit the following draught to fuch critics , you , who know me , will accept this recital , made in my own way , and pretty much as it paffed . You may well be trusted to ...
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... must be conducted , fo long as travel is confidered as a part of early education , I fee nothing but mif chiefs fpring from it . LORD SHAFTESBURY . WHAT ! neceffarily fpring from it ? And is there no way to flop their growth ; or 9 er ...
... must be conducted , fo long as travel is confidered as a part of early education , I fee nothing but mif chiefs fpring from it . LORD SHAFTESBURY . WHAT ! neceffarily fpring from it ? And is there no way to flop their growth ; or 9 er ...
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... must not abfolutely affirm : your Lordship's example , I con- fefs , 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 ...
... must not abfolutely affirm : your Lordship's example , I con- fefs , 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 ...
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... must still be remembered , that they are wide of our prefent purpose . They were Sages , that travelled : and we are now inquiring , whether this be the way for young men to become Sages . PLATO might pick up more learning in his ...
... must still be remembered , that they are wide of our prefent purpose . They were Sages , that travelled : and we are now inquiring , whether this be the way for young men to become Sages . PLATO might pick up more learning in his ...
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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...