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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... never heard of . I KNOW this fcience is too difficult to be perfectly acquired , but by long habit and mature reflection . I know it is not to be expected from a flight fur- vey of mankind ; from a hafty paffage through the different ...
... never heard of . I KNOW this fcience is too difficult to be perfectly acquired , but by long habit and mature reflection . I know it is not to be expected from a flight fur- vey of mankind ; from a hafty paffage through the different ...
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... never per- haps stretched his observation beyond the narrow circle of his companions , or even his own family .. 75 ) s My panegyric , as you call this plain reprefentation of facts and things , would never have an end , if I were to ...
... never per- haps stretched his observation beyond the narrow circle of his companions , or even his own family .. 75 ) s My panegyric , as you call this plain reprefentation of facts and things , would never have an end , if I were to ...
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... never be known from vague and general declamation . To make this inquiry to purpose , fome certain principles must be laid down ; fome scheme of life and manners must be formed ; fome idea or model of the cha- racter , you would imprint ...
... never be known from vague and general declamation . To make this inquiry to purpose , fome certain principles must be laid down ; fome scheme of life and manners must be formed ; fome idea or model of the cha- racter , you would imprint ...
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... ftation to which our greater citizens do , and our best fhould aspire ) can never acquit himself of the duties he owes his country , under F 3 this this character , but by furnishing himself with all thofe FOREIGN TRAVEL . 69.
... ftation to which our greater citizens do , and our best fhould aspire ) can never acquit himself of the duties he owes his country , under F 3 this this character , but by furnishing himself with all thofe FOREIGN TRAVEL . 69.
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... never heard that the lovelinefs of her form is impaired , or even difgraced , by the home- linefs of her habitation . MR . LOCKE . IT may be fo ; and the reafon , as in the cafe of the more selfish affections , is , That the habitation ...
... never heard that the lovelinefs of her form is impaired , or even difgraced , by the home- linefs of her habitation . MR . LOCKE . IT may be fo ; and the reafon , as in the cafe of the more selfish affections , is , That the habitation ...
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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...