Moral and Political Dialogues: With Letters on Chivalry and Romance, Band 3T. Cadell, 1776 |
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... state of Europe at that time was not unlike what I obferved of the old world , when knowledge was in few hands , and the exclufive property , as it were , of particular perfons . So that it was to be travelled for , and fetched home ...
... state of Europe at that time was not unlike what I obferved of the old world , when knowledge was in few hands , and the exclufive property , as it were , of particular perfons . So that it was to be travelled for , and fetched home ...
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... state , for fear of those abuses , is methinks but acting with the weak apprehenfion of fond mothers ; who deny their children the liberty of ftirring from the fire - fide , for fear of the dirt or damp air , which , in their field ...
... state , for fear of those abuses , is methinks but acting with the weak apprehenfion of fond mothers ; who deny their children the liberty of ftirring from the fire - fide , for fear of the dirt or damp air , which , in their field ...
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... states , king- doms , nations , and what we call a whole people . By this freer intercourse , in- deed , their thoughts take a larger range , and their minds open to more generous and manly conceptions . Yet their na- tive barbarifm ...
... states , king- doms , nations , and what we call a whole people . By this freer intercourse , in- deed , their thoughts take a larger range , and their minds open to more generous and manly conceptions . Yet their na- tive barbarifm ...
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... fomething , perhaps , to learn , in their voyages into the neighbouring nations ; however in- ferior to their own in the general state of knowledge and politeness . What 4 then then must be the cafe of our English youth , 32 ON THE USES OF.
... fomething , perhaps , to learn , in their voyages into the neighbouring nations ; however in- ferior to their own in the general state of knowledge and politeness . What 4 then then must be the cafe of our English youth , 32 ON THE USES OF.
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... states and countries , telb me , if theres can be anything more ridiculous than the idiot PREJUDICES of our home- bred gentlemen , which fhew themselves , whenever their own dear Inland comes , in D 2 any any respect , to be the topic ...
... states and countries , telb me , if theres can be anything more ridiculous than the idiot PREJUDICES of our home- bred gentlemen , which fhew themselves , whenever their own dear Inland comes , in D 2 any any respect , to be the topic ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 265 - Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made hell grant what love did seek. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, 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 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 263 - Yet we see thro' all his poetry, where his enthusiasm flames out most, a certain predilection for the legends of chivalry before the fables of Greece. This circumstance, you know, has given offence to the austerer and more mechanical critics.
Seite 304 - THUS, in the poet's world, all is marvellous and extraordinary; yet not unnatural in one fenfe, as it agrees to the conceptions that are readily entertained of thefe magical and wonder-working natures. THIS trite maxim of following "Nature is further miftaken, in applying it indifcriminately to all forts of poetry.
Seite 145 - America, and at the Cape of Good Hope. He may then examine how she appears...
Seite 272 - ... ideas of Unity, which have no place here; and are in every view foreign to the...
Seite 300 - They think it enough, if they can but bring you to imagine the possibility of them.
Seite 302 - Men of cold fancies and philosophical dispositions object to this kind of poetry, that it has not probability enough to affect the imagination. But to this it may be answered, that we are sure, in general, there are many intellectual beings in the World besides ourselves, and several species of spirits...
Seite 269 - ... 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...