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 16
... Italy , in particular , was in those days , as it had long been , the theatre of polite ness , and without doubt could ... Italian Travellers . Yet , methinks , they had done better to stay at home , and at leaft import the arts of Italy ...
... Italy , in particular , was in those days , as it had long been , the theatre of polite ness , and without doubt could ... Italian Travellers . Yet , methinks , they had done better to stay at home , and at leaft import the arts of Italy ...
Pagina 17
... Italy over - run with the worst kind of Deifm . " There our travelling gentry first picked it up for " a rarity . And , indeed , at firft , without much " malice . It was brought home in a cargo of new " fashions and worn , for fome ...
... Italy over - run with the worst kind of Deifm . " There our travelling gentry first picked it up for " a rarity . And , indeed , at firft , without much " malice . It was brought home in a cargo of new " fashions and worn , for fome ...
Pagina 18
... Italian Travellers.- As to the worthies of CHARLES's court , your Lordship , without doubt , is difpofed to divert yourself with them . For , if they brought any thing with them from France , befides the drefs of its follies and vices ...
... Italian Travellers.- As to the worthies of CHARLES's court , your Lordship , without doubt , is difpofed to divert yourself with them . For , if they brought any thing with them from France , befides the drefs of its follies and vices ...
Pagina 21
... or where uch modes of it , at leaft , prevail , as are luckily unknown to us . And fuch , I doubt , were the fruits of our Italian and French travels . C 3 BUT BUT allowing that Vice were of every clime , the FOREIGN TRAVEL . 21.
... or where uch modes of it , at leaft , prevail , as are luckily unknown to us . And fuch , I doubt , were the fruits of our Italian and French travels . C 3 BUT BUT allowing that Vice were of every clime , the FOREIGN TRAVEL . 21.
Pagina 45
... Italy , abounds in men , of distinguished literature and politenefs .. Nay , a German Profeffor may fupply the place of an University Doctor . Think , what illuftrious perfons may be fome- times met with even in a Dutch town ; and 1 and ...
... Italy , abounds in men , of distinguished literature and politenefs .. Nay , a German Profeffor may fupply the place of an University Doctor . Think , what illuftrious perfons may be fome- times met with even in a Dutch town ; and 1 and ...
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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.