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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... suppose , at this fceptical man- ner of debate , which ends in nothing ; and , after the waste of much breath , leaves the matter at laft undecided , and just as it was taken up . ALL this , it must be owned , is very true . But as it ...
... suppose , at this fceptical man- ner of debate , which ends in nothing ; and , after the waste of much breath , leaves the matter at laft undecided , and just as it was taken up . ALL this , it must be owned , is very true . But as it ...
Pagina 94
... by his advice and autho- rity . BUT , though foreign travel fhould be indeed a remedy for the mischiefs , com- plained of , I ftill queftion whether it would would be a proper one . Suppose our young gentleman 94 ON THE USES OF.
... by his advice and autho- rity . BUT , though foreign travel fhould be indeed a remedy for the mischiefs , com- plained of , I ftill queftion whether it would would be a proper one . Suppose our young gentleman 94 ON THE USES OF.
Pagina 95
Richard Hurd. would be a proper one . Suppose our young gentleman to be of fo pliant a make , as to lay afide his ruftic and illi- beral habits in complaifance to the bet ter company , he is obliged to live with : does it immediately ...
Richard Hurd. would be a proper one . Suppose our young gentleman to be of fo pliant a make , as to lay afide his ruftic and illi- beral habits in complaifance to the bet ter company , he is obliged to live with : does it immediately ...
Pagina 247
... hand , have seen in the weft the manners of the feudal ages , I make no doubt but he would certainly have preferred the latter . And the grounds R 4 of of this preference would , I suppose , have been CHIVALRY AND ROMANCE . 247.
... hand , have seen in the weft the manners of the feudal ages , I make no doubt but he would certainly have preferred the latter . And the grounds R 4 of of this preference would , I suppose , have been CHIVALRY AND ROMANCE . 247.
Pagina 248
Richard Hurd. of this preference would , I suppose , have been , " the improved gallantry of the Gothic knights ; and the fuperior folemnity of their " Superftitions . " 66 IF any great poet , like Homer , had flourished in these times ...
Richard Hurd. of this preference would , I suppose , have been , " the improved gallantry of the Gothic knights ; and the fuperior folemnity of their " Superftitions . " 66 IF any great poet , like Homer , had flourished in these times ...
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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
Populaire passages
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.