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 13
... learning in his Voyages , than any body fince has been able to understand ; and yet a youth of eighteen be little the wifer for ftaring away two or three years in mysterious Egypt . LORD LORD SHAFTESBURY . WHY , truly , if he carried ...
... learning in his Voyages , than any body fince has been able to understand ; and yet a youth of eighteen be little the wifer for ftaring away two or three years in mysterious Egypt . LORD LORD SHAFTESBURY . WHY , truly , if he carried ...
Pagina 15
... voyagers in ELIZABETH'S time . We were just then emerging from ignorance and barbarity . Learning and the Arts were but then getting up ; and were best acquired , acquired , we will fay , in foreign schools , FOREIGN TRAVEL . 15.
... voyagers in ELIZABETH'S time . We were just then emerging from ignorance and barbarity . Learning and the Arts were but then getting up ; and were best acquired , acquired , we will fay , in foreign schools , FOREIGN TRAVEL . 15.
Pagina 16
... learning we moft wanted . THIS then was the fashionable route of our curious and courtly youth and many accomplished perfons , I can readily admit , were to be found in the number of our Italian Travellers . Yet , methinks , they had ...
... learning we moft wanted . THIS then was the fashionable route of our curious and courtly youth and many accomplished perfons , I can readily admit , were to be found in the number of our Italian Travellers . Yet , methinks , they had ...
Pagina 49
... learning must he gather and bring home with him , from the numberless varied scenes he has paffed through in his voyages ! With what luftre must such a perfon appear in the court or fenate of his own country ! How fecure against the ...
... learning must he gather and bring home with him , from the numberless varied scenes he has paffed through in his voyages ! With what luftre must such a perfon appear in the court or fenate of his own country ! How fecure against the ...
Pagina 55
... in fome con- venient time , we should have fomething of our own to oppose to the wit , learning , and elegance of France , and that , in the mechanic 1 E 4 ये mechanic execution of the fine arts , we fhould FOREIGN TRAVEL . 55.
... in fome con- venient time , we should have fomething of our own to oppose to the wit , learning , and elegance of France , and that , in the mechanic 1 E 4 ये mechanic execution of the fine arts , we fhould FOREIGN TRAVEL . 55.
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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.