Dialogues VII, VIII. On the uses of foreign travel. Lord Shaftesbury, Mr. Locke. Letters on chivalry and romance: serving to illustrate passages in the third dialogueT. Cadell, 1788 |
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Pagina 27
... seem to me to be the parents of the moft and the worft vices . Conceit , pride , bigotry , infolence , ferocity , cruelty , are the native product of the human mind , kept uncultivated . Self - love , which makes fo predominant a part ...
... seem to me to be the parents of the moft and the worft vices . Conceit , pride , bigotry , infolence , ferocity , cruelty , are the native product of the human mind , kept uncultivated . Self - love , which makes fo predominant a part ...
Pagina 212
... seem to have a fair account of that PROWESS , GENEROSITY , GALLANTRY , and RELIGION , which were the peculiar and vaunted characteristics of the purer ages of Chivalry . SUCH was the state of things in the western world , when the ...
... seem to have a fair account of that PROWESS , GENEROSITY , GALLANTRY , and RELIGION , which were the peculiar and vaunted characteristics of the purer ages of Chivalry . SUCH was the state of things in the western world , when the ...
Pagina 213
... , of this learned deduction ? Do not you begin to favour my conjecture , as whimsical as it might seem , of the rise and genius of Knight - errantry ? Р 3 AND AND yet ( fo flippery is the ground , on CHIVALRY AND ROMANCE . 213.
... , of this learned deduction ? Do not you begin to favour my conjecture , as whimsical as it might seem , of the rise and genius of Knight - errantry ? Р 3 AND AND yet ( fo flippery is the ground , on CHIVALRY AND ROMANCE . 213.
Pagina 242
... seem to require , on which it was founded . IF you still infift that I carry this mat- ter too far , and that , in fact , the intro- duction of the female fucceffion into fiefs was too late to justify me in accounting for the rife of ...
... seem to require , on which it was founded . IF you still infift that I carry this mat- ter too far , and that , in fact , the intro- duction of the female fucceffion into fiefs was too late to justify me in accounting for the rife of ...
Pagina 330
... seem ftill harder , to the moral of his fong . HOWEVER , this great revolution in mo- dern tafte was brought about by degrees ; and the steps , that led to it , may be worth the tracing in a diftinct Letter . LETTER XII . HE wonders of ...
... seem ftill harder , to the moral of his fong . HOWEVER , this great revolution in mo- dern tafte was brought about by degrees ; and the steps , that led to it , may be worth the tracing in a diftinct Letter . LETTER XII . HE wonders of ...
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Dialogues VII, VIII. On the uses of foreign travel. Lord Shaftesbury, Mr ... Richard Hurd Volledige weergave - 1788 |
Dialogues VII, VIII. On the uses of foreign travel. Lord Shaftesbury, Mr ... Richard Hurd Volledige weergave - 1765 |
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accompliſhed adventures againſt antient ARIOSTO beft beſt bufinefs cafe character Chivalry circumftances claffic confideration converfation deferves defign difcipline eafily faid Fairy Queen fame fancies faſhion fatire feem feen fenfe ferve feudal feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fide focieties fome fomething foon foreign travel fpirit ftate ftill ftory ftudies fubject fuch fuperior fuppofe furely fyftem genius Gothic fictions Gothic manners himſelf Iliad inftance inftruction itſelf juft juſt knights knowledge laft leaft learning leaſt lefs LETTER LOCKE LORD SHAFTESBURY Lordship mafter ment mind moft moral moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary obfervation occafion paffed paffion perfons philofopher poem poet poetry polite prefent Prince ARTHUR proper purpoſe queftion racter reafon refpect reft Romance ſay ſchools Sir TOPAZ SPENSER ſtate ſtudy ſuch tafte TASSO taſte thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion TOPAZ unity Univerfities uſe virtue young youth
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Pagina 260 - 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.
Pagina 261 - 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...
Pagina 256 - 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.
Pagina 258 - Queen 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.
Pagina 283 - Albracca, as romances tell, The city of Gallaphrone, from thence to win The fairest of her sex Angelica, His daughter, sought by many prowest knights, Both Paynim, and the peers of Charlemain.
Pagina 265 - ... 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...
Pagina 316 - Under this form the tales of fairy kept their ground, and even made their fortune at court, where they became, for two or three reigns, the ordinary entertainment of our princes. But...
Pagina 243 - 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.
Pagina 292 - Ifland, and all the reft of the love-ftory is as natural, that is, as fuitable to our common notions of that paffion, as any thing in Virgil or (if you will) Voltaire.
Pagina 246 - As to religious machinery, perhaps the popular system of each was equally remote from reason, yet the latter had something in it more amusing, as well as more awakening to the imagination. The current popular tales of elves and fairies were even fitter to take the credulous mind, and charm it into a willing admiration of the specious miracles which wayward fancy delights in, than those of the old traditionary rabble of pagan divinities.