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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... of your council on this occafion . But , what- ever your purpose might be , fince you have thought fit to honour me so far , I muft own your Letter of Inquiry could not not poffibly have found me in a fitter feafon . 2 ON THE USES OF.
... of your council on this occafion . But , what- ever your purpose might be , fince you have thought fit to honour me so far , I muft own your Letter of Inquiry could not not poffibly have found me in a fitter feafon . 2 ON THE USES OF.
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... ; and fhould even omit no circumstance of time or place , which might be proper to let you into the scene , and make you , as it were , one of us . B 3 BUT BUT these punctilios of decorum are thought too conftraining , FOREIGN TRAVEL . 5.
... ; and fhould even omit no circumstance of time or place , which might be proper to let you into the scene , and make you , as it were , one of us . B 3 BUT BUT these punctilios of decorum are thought too conftraining , FOREIGN TRAVEL . 5.
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... thought too conftraining , and , as fuch , are wifely laid afide , by the easy mo- derns . Nay , the very notion of Dia- logue , fuch as it was in the politeft ages of antiquity , is fo little comprehended in our days , that I queftion ...
... thought too conftraining , and , as fuch , are wifely laid afide , by the easy mo- derns . Nay , the very notion of Dia- logue , fuch as it was in the politeft ages of antiquity , is fo little comprehended in our days , that I queftion ...
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... thought to have benefited fo little by yours , and the inftructions of my other masters , as not to lay the greatest ftrefs on that confideration . BUT , after all , thefe inconveniences may be pretty well avoided , by the choice of an ...
... thought to have benefited fo little by yours , and the inftructions of my other masters , as not to lay the greatest ftrefs on that confideration . BUT , after all , thefe inconveniences may be pretty well avoided , by the choice of an ...
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... thoughts take a larger range , and their minds open to more generous and manly conceptions . Yet their na- tive barbarifm fticks clofe to them , and requires to be loofened and worn off by a more focial habit , by the experience of a ...
... thoughts take a larger range , and their minds open to more generous and manly conceptions . Yet their na- tive barbarifm fticks clofe to them , and requires to be loofened and worn off by a more focial habit , by the experience of a ...
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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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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 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.
Seite 207 - ... knights, as to give birth to the attentions of gallantry. But this gallantry would take a refined turn, not only from the...
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 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 272 - ... ideas of Unity, which have no place here; and are in every view foreign to the...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...