Moral and Political Dialogues: With Letters on Chivalry and Romance, Band 3T. Cadell, 1776 |
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... fince has been able to understand ; and yet a youth of eighteen be little the wiser for ftaring away two or three years in mysterious Egypt . PLATO LORD LORD SHAFTESBURY . WHY , truly , if he carried FOREIGN TRAVEL . 13.
... fince has been able to understand ; and yet a youth of eighteen be little the wiser for ftaring away two or three years in mysterious Egypt . PLATO LORD LORD SHAFTESBURY . WHY , truly , if he carried FOREIGN TRAVEL . 13.
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... carried nothing abroad with him but the ufe of his eye- fight , I should be much of your mind with regard to the improvements he might be expected to bring back with him . But let him hear and obferve a little , as well as fee ; and ...
... carried nothing abroad with him but the ufe of his eye- fight , I should be much of your mind with regard to the improvements he might be expected to bring back with him . But let him hear and obferve a little , as well as fee ; and ...
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... 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 ELIZABETH'S time . We were juft then emerging from ignorance and barbarity . Learning and the ...
... 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 ELIZABETH'S time . We were juft then emerging from ignorance and barbarity . Learning and the ...
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... LORD SHAFTESBURY . WITHOUT doubt , if these less im- portant points engrofs all their attention . But can there be a difficulty in carrying VOL . III . G on on the two defigns together ; especially , if a FOREIGN TRAVEL . 81.
... LORD SHAFTESBURY . WITHOUT doubt , if these less im- portant points engrofs all their attention . But can there be a difficulty in carrying VOL . III . G on on the two defigns together ; especially , if a FOREIGN TRAVEL . 81.
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With Letters on Chivalry and Romance Richard Hurd. carry them fomething too far . The juft . degree , the precise mean , is a nice point to hit . The condition of our common nature is such , that we either overshoot the mark , or fall ...
With Letters on Chivalry and Romance Richard Hurd. carry them fomething too far . The juft . degree , the precise mean , is a nice point to hit . The condition of our common nature is such , that we either overshoot the mark , or fall ...
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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
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...