Moral and Political Dialogues: With Letters on Chivalry and Romance, Volume 3T. Cadell, 1776 |
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Pagina 8
... youth , and to fit them for the business and conversation of the world ? MR . LOCKE . I THINK not . I fee but little good , in proportion to the time it takes up , that can be drawn from it , under any management ; but , in the way in ...
... youth , and to fit them for the business and conversation of the world ? MR . LOCKE . I THINK not . I fee but little good , in proportion to the time it takes up , that can be drawn from it , under any management ; but , in the way in ...
Pagina 10
... youth ; and whether it may not , on the whole , deserve the countenance of a philofopher , who un- derftands the world , and has himself been formed by it ? MR . LOCKE . YOUR Lordship , I think , will do well to put philofophy out of ...
... youth ; and whether it may not , on the whole , deserve the countenance of a philofopher , who un- derftands the world , and has himself been formed by it ? MR . LOCKE . YOUR Lordship , I think , will do well to put philofophy out of ...
Pagina 13
... fince has been able to understand ; and yet a youth of eighteen be little the wiser for ftaring away two or three years in mysterious Egypt . PLATO LORD LORD SHAFTESBURY . WHY , truly , if he carried FOREIGN TRAVEL . 13.
... fince has been able to understand ; and yet a youth of eighteen be little the wiser for ftaring away two or three years in mysterious Egypt . PLATO LORD LORD SHAFTESBURY . WHY , truly , if he carried FOREIGN TRAVEL . 13.
Pagina 14
... youth of eighteen might pick up fome- thing of value , though he should not re- turn laden with the myfteries of Egypt . As to the gaiety on the antient Sages , I could be much entertained with it , if I did not recollect that the more ...
... youth of eighteen might pick up fome- thing of value , though he should not re- turn laden with the myfteries of Egypt . As to the gaiety on the antient Sages , I could be much entertained with it , if I did not recollect that the more ...
Pagina 15
... youth were fashioned in the school of foreign Travel ? You will hardly pre- tend that the ornaments of the fecond CHARLES ' and ELIZABETH's courts were caft in the coarse mould of this home- breeding . MR . LOCKE . I SHALL perhaps carry ...
... youth were fashioned in the school of foreign Travel ? You will hardly pre- tend that the ornaments of the fecond CHARLES ' and ELIZABETH's courts were caft in the coarse mould of this home- breeding . MR . LOCKE . I SHALL perhaps carry ...
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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...