Dialogues VII, VIII. On the uses of foreign travel. Lord Shaftesbury, Mr. Locke. Letters on chivalry and romance: serving to illustrate passages in the third dialogueT. Cadell, 1788 |
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... fide of the argument , and will need no officious monitor to inftruct you on which fide the truth lies . NoT to detain you , by further pre- liminaries , from the entertainment ( fuch as it is ) which I have promised you ; you may ...
... fide of the argument , and will need no officious monitor to inftruct you on which fide the truth lies . NoT to detain you , by further pre- liminaries , from the entertainment ( fuch as it is ) which I have promised you ; you may ...
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... fide , for fear of the dirt or damp air , which , in their field- exercises , may chance to incommode them . MR . LOCKE . THE allufion would be apt , if the health of the mind , as of the body , de- pended on the use of fuch liberty ...
... fide , for fear of the dirt or damp air , which , in their field- exercises , may chance to incommode them . MR . LOCKE . THE allufion would be apt , if the health of the mind , as of the body , de- pended on the use of fuch liberty ...
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... fide of morals ; and I would not be thought to have benefited fo little by yours , and the inftructions of my other masters , as not to lay the greatest stress on that con- fideration . • BUT , after all , thefe inconveniences may be ...
... fide of morals ; and I would not be thought to have benefited fo little by yours , and the inftructions of my other masters , as not to lay the greatest stress on that con- fideration . • BUT , after all , thefe inconveniences may be ...
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... of this language . Let me add then , that policy , as well as philofophy , is on the fide of these ftudies . Who can doubt their virtue in foftening and refining the man- ners of a people ? or , to take policy 2 ners 56 ON THE USES OF.
... of this language . Let me add then , that policy , as well as philofophy , is on the fide of these ftudies . Who can doubt their virtue in foftening and refining the man- ners of a people ? or , to take policy 2 ners 56 ON THE USES OF.
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... memory has not betrayed me ) gone over the feveral hends and topics of your defence ; and faid enough , I believe , on cach , to fhew that foreign travel is not , 7 on on whatever fide we view it , the most proper 140 ON THE USES OF.
... memory has not betrayed me ) gone over the feveral hends and topics of your defence ; and faid enough , I believe , on cach , to fhew that foreign travel is not , 7 on on whatever fide we view it , the most proper 140 ON THE USES OF.
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accompliſhed adventures againſt antient ARIOSTO beft beſt bufinefs cafe character Chivalry circumftances claffic confideration converfation deferves defign difcipline eafily faid Fairy Queen fame fancies faſhion fatire feem feen fenfe ferve feudal feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fide focieties fome fomething foon foreign travel fpirit ftate ftill ftory ftudies fubject fuch fuperior fuppofe furely fyftem genius Gothic fictions Gothic manners himſelf Iliad inftance inftruction itſelf juft juſt knights knowledge laft leaft learning leaſt lefs LETTER LOCKE LORD SHAFTESBURY Lordship mafter ment mind moft moral moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary obfervation occafion paffed paffion perfons philofopher poem poet poetry polite prefent Prince ARTHUR proper purpoſe queftion racter reafon refpect reft Romance ſay ſchools Sir TOPAZ SPENSER ſtate ſtudy ſuch tafte TASSO taſte thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion TOPAZ unity Univerfities uſe virtue young youth
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Seite 260 - 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.
Seite 261 - Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass; And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Seite 256 - 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.
Seite 258 - Queen is to be read and criticized. And on these principles, it would not be difficult to unfold its merit in another way than has been hitherto attempted.
Seite 283 - Albracca, as romances tell, The city of Gallaphrone, from thence to win The fairest of her sex Angelica, His daughter, sought by many prowest knights, Both Paynim, and the peers of Charlemain.
Seite 265 - ... for all their grievances. This was the real practice, in the days of pure and ancient chivalry. And an image of this practice was afterwards kept up in the...
Seite 316 - Under this form the tales of fairy kept their ground, and even made their fortune at court, where they became, for two or three reigns, the ordinary entertainment of our princes. But...
Seite 243 - Liberata into competition with the Iliad. So far as the heroic and Gothic manners are the same, the pictures of each, if well taken, must be equally entertaining. But I go further, and maintain that the circumstances in which they differ are clearly to the advantage of the Gothic designers.
Seite 292 - Ifland, and all the reft of the love-ftory is as natural, that is, as fuitable to our common notions of that paffion, as any thing in Virgil or (if you will) Voltaire.
Seite 246 - As to religious machinery, perhaps the popular system of each was equally remote from reason, yet the latter had something in it more amusing, as well as more awakening to the imagination. The current popular tales of elves and fairies were even fitter to take the credulous mind, and charm it into a willing admiration of the specious miracles which wayward fancy delights in, than those of the old traditionary rabble of pagan divinities.