Moral and Political Dialogues: With Letters on Chivalry and Romance, Volume 3T. Cadell, 1776 |
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Pagina 28
... many fond con- eeits , and over - weening fancies ! The world seems to them fhrunk up into their own private circle ; juft as the heavens appear appear to children to be contained within the limits of 28 ON THE USES OF.
... many fond con- eeits , and over - weening fancies ! The world seems to them fhrunk up into their own private circle ; juft as the heavens appear appear to children to be contained within the limits of 28 ON THE USES OF.
Pagina 37
... fancies ex- pofe them , one cannot but wish that our countrymen would open their eyes , and extend their prospect beyond their own foggy air , and dirty acres . A BUT this is the leaft inconvenience of their home breeding . How many low ...
... fancies ex- pofe them , one cannot but wish that our countrymen would open their eyes , and extend their prospect beyond their own foggy air , and dirty acres . A BUT this is the leaft inconvenience of their home breeding . How many low ...
Pagina 103
... for waiting the proper time of its appear- ance ; which nature makes a little later than our impatient fancies are ready to prescribe to her . CONSIDER H 4 CONSIDER too , this polite accomplish- ment , this fupreme FOREIGN TRAVEL . 103.
... for waiting the proper time of its appear- ance ; which nature makes a little later than our impatient fancies are ready to prescribe to her . CONSIDER H 4 CONSIDER too , this polite accomplish- ment , this fupreme FOREIGN TRAVEL . 103.
Pagina 106
... fancies of mine will be realized : when politeness fhall be fatal to ability of every kind ; and , at least in the higher ranks of life , when our countrymen shall be too well bred to be good for any thing . AND now , having ventured fo ...
... fancies of mine will be realized : when politeness fhall be fatal to ability of every kind ; and , at least in the higher ranks of life , when our countrymen shall be too well bred to be good for any thing . AND now , having ventured fo ...
Pagina 128
... meet with either , among his acquaintance . LORD SHAFTESBURY . THE obfervation is furely juft ; and I could only mean that those high fancies fhould fhould be checked and moderated in due time , before 128 ON THE USES OF.
... meet with either , among his acquaintance . LORD SHAFTESBURY . THE obfervation is furely juft ; and I could only mean that those high fancies fhould fhould be checked and moderated in due time , before 128 ON THE USES OF.
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Pagina 265 - Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made hell grant what love did seek. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, 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 264 - 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 260 - 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 263 - Yet we see thro' all his poetry, where his enthusiasm flames out most, a certain predilection for the legends of chivalry before the fables of Greece. This circumstance, you know, has given offence to the austerer and more mechanical critics.
Pagina 304 - THUS, in the poet's world, all is marvellous and extraordinary; yet not unnatural in one fenfe, as it agrees to the conceptions that are readily entertained of thefe magical and wonder-working natures. THIS trite maxim of following "Nature is further miftaken, in applying it indifcriminately to all forts of poetry.
Pagina 145 - America, and at the Cape of Good Hope. He may then examine how she appears...
Pagina 272 - ... ideas of Unity, which have no place here; and are in every view foreign to the...
Pagina 300 - They think it enough, if they can but bring you to imagine the possibility of them.
Pagina 302 - Men of cold fancies and philosophical dispositions object to this kind of poetry, that it has not probability enough to affect the imagination. But to this it may be answered, that we are sure, in general, there are many intellectual beings in the World besides ourselves, and several species of spirits...
Pagina 269 - ... 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...