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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... queftion concerning The Ufes of Foreign Travel , confidered as a part of modern breeding and education , as He , who has himself profited fo much by this practice , and , in a late excellent treatife [ a ] , [ a ] Account of Denmark ...
... queftion concerning The Ufes of Foreign Travel , confidered as a part of modern breeding and education , as He , who has himself profited fo much by this practice , and , in a late excellent treatife [ a ] , [ a ] Account of Denmark ...
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... queftion much , if these papers were to fall into other hands than your own , whether they would not appear in a high degree fantastic and vifionary . It would never be imagined that a point of morals or philofophy could be regularly ...
... queftion much , if these papers were to fall into other hands than your own , whether they would not appear in a high degree fantastic and vifionary . It would never be imagined that a point of morals or philofophy could be regularly ...
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... queftion at prefent is of no fuch rarities ; but of raw , ignorant , ungovern- able boys , on the one hand , and of fhal- low , fervile , and interested governors , on the other . And if any good can arise from fuch worthies as thefe ...
... queftion at prefent is of no fuch rarities ; but of raw , ignorant , ungovern- able boys , on the one hand , and of fhal- low , fervile , and interested governors , on the other . And if any good can arise from fuch worthies as thefe ...
الصفحة 64
... queftion , that deferved the examination of a philofo- pher , properly fo called , it is , furely , this of EDUCATION ; and , among the various parts of it , none is more strictly to be in- quired into , as none is , perhaps , fo big ...
... queftion , that deferved the examination of a philofo- pher , properly fo called , it is , furely , this of EDUCATION ; and , among the various parts of it , none is more strictly to be in- quired into , as none is , perhaps , fo big ...
الصفحة 94
... restrained by his advice and autho- rity . BUT , though foreign travel fhould be indeed a remedy for the mifchiefs , com- plained of , I ftill queftion whether it would would be a proper one . Suppose our young gentleman 94 ON THE USES OF.
... restrained by his advice and autho- rity . BUT , though foreign travel fhould be indeed a remedy for the mifchiefs , com- plained of , I ftill queftion whether it would would be a proper one . Suppose our young gentleman 94 ON THE USES OF.
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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...