Moral and political dialogues: being the substance of several conversations between divers eminent persons, with critical and explanatory notes by the editor [R. Hurd]. With letters on chivalry and romance by mr. Hurd, Band 3 |
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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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... these papers were to fall into other hands , than your own , whether they would not appear in a high degree fantastic and vifionary . It would never be imagined that a point of morals or philofophy could be regularly treated in what is ...
... these papers were to fall into other hands , than your own , whether they would not appear in a high degree fantastic and vifionary . It would never be imagined that a point of morals or philofophy could be regularly treated in what is ...
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... these refpectable au- thorities , for the use of travelling , it muft ftill be remembered , that they are wide of our prefent purpose . They were Sages , that travelled : And we are now inquiring , whether this be the way for young men ...
... these refpectable au- thorities , for the use of travelling , it muft ftill be remembered , that they are wide of our prefent purpose . They were Sages , that travelled : And we are now inquiring , whether this be the way for young men ...
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... these wares , as thinking them a proper anti- dote to fuch as another fet of miffionaries largely dealt in , I mean the agnus Dei's , holy beads , and confecrated medals ? MR . LOCKE . TAKE it which way you will , the con- clufion , I ...
... these wares , as thinking them a proper anti- dote to fuch as another fet of miffionaries largely dealt in , I mean the agnus Dei's , holy beads , and confecrated medals ? MR . LOCKE . TAKE it which way you will , the con- clufion , I ...
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... these princi ples ? are they just and reasonable ? or , am I going to build on precarious and infecure foundations ? MR . LOCKE . WHATEVER defect there may be in this foundation , your Lordship , as a wife architect , is for fparing no ...
... these princi ples ? are they just and reasonable ? or , am I going to build on precarious and infecure foundations ? MR . LOCKE . WHATEVER defect there may be in this foundation , your Lordship , as a wife architect , is for fparing no ...
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Seite 254 - 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 197 - ... knights, as to give birth to the attentions of gallantry. But this gallantry would take a refined turn, not only from the...
Seite 250 - 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 255 - 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 324 - The only favourable circumftance that attended him (and this no doubt encouraged, if it did not produce his untimely project) was, that he was fomewhat befriended in thefe...
Seite 252 - Under this idea then of a Gothic, not classical poem, the Faerie Queene is to be read and criticized. And on these principles, it would not be difficult to unfold its merit in another way than has been hitherto attempted.
Seite 259 - ... 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...
Seite 270 - This was the poet's moral ; and what way of expressing this moral in the history but by making Prince Arthur appear in each adventure, and in a manner subordinate to its proper hero ? Thus, though inferior to each in his own specific virtue, he is superior to all, by uniting...
Seite 250 - There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it; the churchyards were all haunted; every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it; and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit.
Seite 237 - Liberata into competition with the Iliad. So far as the heroic and Gothic manners are the same, the pictures of each, if well taken, must be equally entertaining. But I go further, and maintain that the circumstances in which they differ are clearly to the advantage of the Gothic designers.