Moral and Political Dialogues: With Letters on Chivalry and Romance, Band 3T. Cadell, 1776 |
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... courts were caft in the coarse mould of this home- breeding . MR . LOCKE . I SHALL perhaps carry my pretenfions still further , and affirm it had been much better if they had been fo . I KNOW What is to be faid for the voyagers in ...
... courts were caft in the coarse mould of this home- breeding . MR . LOCKE . I SHALL perhaps carry my pretenfions still further , and affirm it had been much better if they had been fo . I KNOW What is to be faid for the voyagers in ...
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... court , your Lordship , without doubt , is difpofed to divert yourself with them . For , if they brought any thing with them from France , befides the dress of its follies and vices ( excepting always the facred bab- ble of their ...
... court , your Lordship , without doubt , is difpofed to divert yourself with them . For , if they brought any thing with them from France , befides the dress of its follies and vices ( excepting always the facred bab- ble of their ...
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... courts , and the more improved focieties of Europe . BUT fuppofe our young gentlemah to have escaped this fordid tafte , and by D 4 better better luck than ordinary to have finished his home education FOREIGN TRAVEL . 39 THIS fottifh ...
... courts , and the more improved focieties of Europe . BUT fuppofe our young gentlemah to have escaped this fordid tafte , and by D 4 better better luck than ordinary to have finished his home education FOREIGN TRAVEL . 39 THIS fottifh ...
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... court the ac- quaintance of fome lettered pedagogue in the schools , or folicit the precious communication of fome famed profeffor in the occult fciences ? Wonderful mo- dels 1 dels of correct wit , fublime sense , and 44 ON THE USES OF ...
... court the ac- quaintance of fome lettered pedagogue in the schools , or folicit the precious communication of fome famed profeffor in the occult fciences ? Wonderful mo- dels 1 dels of correct wit , fublime sense , and 44 ON THE USES OF ...
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... court or fenate of his own country ! How fecure against the attempts of artifice and defign ! the plots of infidious enemies , or the pre- tences of false friends ! how apt for the bufinefs of life , and for bearing his part VOL . III ...
... court or fenate of his own country ! How fecure against the attempts of artifice and defign ! the plots of infidious enemies , or the pre- tences of false friends ! how apt for the bufinefs of life , and for bearing his part VOL . III ...
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accompliſhed adventures againſt almoſt antient ARIOSTO beft beſt buſineſs cafe cauſe character Chivalry circumftance claffic cloſe confideration converfation courſe defign difcipline eſpecially faid Fairy Queen fame fancies faſhionable fatire fcene feem feen fenfe ferve feudal fhall fhew fhould firſt focieties fome fomething foon foreign travel fpirit ftate ftill ftories ftudies fubject fuch fuperior fuppofe furely furniſh fyftem genius Gothic Gothic fictions guife himſelf Iliad inftance inftruction itſelf juft juſt knights laft leaft leaſt lefs LOCKE LORD LORD SHAFTESBURY Lordship manners ment mind moft moral moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary obfervation occafion paffion perfons philofopher pleaſe poem poet polite prefent proper purpoſe queſtion racter reaſon refpect Romance ſay ſchools ſeems ſenſe ſhall Sir TOPAZ SPENSER ſtate ſtill ſtudy ſuppoſe TASSO taſte thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion TOPAZ underſtand Univerſities uſe virtue young youth
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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...