Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the DramaR. Cadell, 1834 - 395 من الصفحات |
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... distinction ascribed to soldiers serving on horseback assumed a very peculiar and imposing character . They were not merely respected on account of their wealth or military skill , but were bound together by a union of a very peculiar ...
... distinction ascribed to soldiers serving on horseback assumed a very peculiar and imposing character . They were not merely respected on account of their wealth or military skill , but were bound together by a union of a very peculiar ...
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... distinctions and privileges were conferred , there is nothing either original or exclusively proper to our Gothic ancestors . It was in the singular tenets of Chi- valry , in the exalted , enthusiastic , and almost sanctimonious , ideas ...
... distinctions and privileges were conferred , there is nothing either original or exclusively proper to our Gothic ancestors . It was in the singular tenets of Chi- valry , in the exalted , enthusiastic , and almost sanctimonious , ideas ...
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... distinction . If this correspondence of customs shall be thought too far- fetched , and too general , the next , which we also derive from Tacitus , is too close to be disputed . The German warriors , who piqued themselves upon their ...
... distinction . If this correspondence of customs shall be thought too far- fetched , and too general , the next , which we also derive from Tacitus , is too close to be disputed . The German warriors , who piqued themselves upon their ...
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... distinctions , over all the other nations in the same stage of society . The chaste and temperate habits of these youth , and the opinion that it was dishonourable to hold sexual intercourse until the twentieth year was attained , was ...
... distinctions , over all the other nations in the same stage of society . The chaste and temperate habits of these youth , and the opinion that it was dishonourable to hold sexual intercourse until the twentieth year was attained , was ...
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... distinctions of rank , and elevate the hopes of the knight , whose sole patrimony was his arms and valour , to the high - born and princely dame , before whom he carved as a sewer . " How is it possible for me , " replied poor Saintré ...
... distinctions of rank , and elevate the hopes of the knight , whose sole patrimony was his arms and valour , to the high - born and princely dame , before whom he carved as a sewer . " How is it possible for me , " replied poor Saintré ...
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الصفحة 341 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object; can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
الصفحة 348 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
الصفحة 277 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
الصفحة 341 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts: Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance; Think when we talk of horses that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
الصفحة 305 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
الصفحة 359 - I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
الصفحة 359 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them.
الصفحة 280 - Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster, with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
الصفحة 280 - Afric of the other, and so many other under-kingdoms, that the player, when he comes in, must ever begin with telling where he is, or else the tale will not be conceived?
الصفحة 50 - Call you that desperate, which, by a line Of institution, from our ancestors Hath been derived down to us, and received In a succession for the noblest way Of breeding up our youth, in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman ? Where can he learn to vault, to ride, to fence, To move his body...