Moral and Political Dialogues: With Letters on Chivalry and Romance: by the Reverend Doctor Hurd. In Three VolumesT. Cadell in the Strand, 1776 |
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... hope to come off , in the dispute , with any advantage . LORD SHAFTESBURY . YET philofophy was not always of this mind . You know , when the best proficients proficients in that fcience gave a coun- tenance to this 10 ON THE USES OF.
... hope to come off , in the dispute , with any advantage . LORD SHAFTESBURY . YET philofophy was not always of this mind . You know , when the best proficients proficients in that fcience gave a coun- tenance to this 10 ON THE USES OF.
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... who deferved that name the best , was no great Traveller . I remember to have read , that SOCRATES had never ftirred out of Athens ; and that , when his his admirers would fometimes afk him why he affected this 12 ON THE USES OF.
... who deferved that name the best , was no great Traveller . I remember to have read , that SOCRATES had never ftirred out of Athens ; and that , when his his admirers would fometimes afk him why he affected this 12 ON THE USES OF.
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... 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 fchools , FOREIGN TRAVEL . 15.
... 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 fchools , FOREIGN TRAVEL . 15.
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... youth of fortune , and even of qua- lity , from the influence of their family , or at best provincial , education ! [ e ] CHARACT . Vol . iii . Dif . iii . D 3 THEY THEY retain fo much of their Saxon or Norman character FOREIGN TRAVEL . 37.
... youth of fortune , and even of qua- lity , from the influence of their family , or at best provincial , education ! [ e ] CHARACT . Vol . iii . Dif . iii . D 3 THEY THEY retain fo much of their Saxon or Norman character FOREIGN TRAVEL . 37.
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... best focieties ; and fee with what ease and address he fuftains his part in them ! how liberal his air and manner ! how managed and decorous his delivery of himself ! In fhort , how welcome to every body , and how prepared to acquit ...
... best focieties ; and fee with what ease and address he fuftains his part in them ! how liberal his air and manner ! how managed and decorous his delivery of himself ! In fhort , how welcome to every body , and how prepared to acquit ...
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abfurd accompliſhed adventures againſt almoſt anſwer antient ARIOSTO beft beſt buſineſs cafe character Chivalry circumſtances claffic confideration converfation defign difcipline eſpecially faid Fairy Queen fame fancies faſhionable fatire fcene feem feen fenfe ferve feudal fhall fhew fhould focieties fome fomething foon foreign travel fpirit ftate ftill ftories ftudies fubject fuch fuperftition fuperior fuppofe furely fyftem genius Gothic Gothic fictions guife himſelf Iliad inftance inftruction itſelf juft juſt knights knowledge laft leaft learning leaſt lefs LETTER LOCKE LORD SHAFTESBURY Lordship mafter manners mind moft moral moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary obfervation occafion paffion perfons philofopher pleaſe poem poet polite prefent proper purpoſe queftion racter reafon refpect reft Romance ſay ſchools ſenſe ſhall Sir TOPAZ ſome SPENSER ſtate ſtill ſtudy TASSO taſte thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion TOPAZ underſtand Univerſities uſe virtue young youth
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Strana 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.
Strana 328 - There was no example of any such manners remaining on the face of the Earth: And as they never did subsist but once, and are never likely to subsist again, people would be led of course to think and speak of them, as romantic, and unnatural.
Strana 207 - ... knights, as to give birth to the attentions of gallantry. But this gallantry would take a refined turn, not only from the...
Strana 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.
Strana 267 - When an architect examines a Gothic structure by Grecian rules, he finds nothing but deformity. But the Gothic architecture has its own rules, by which when it comes to be examined, it is seen to have its merit, as well as the Grecian.
Strana 259 - The ancients have not much of this poetry among them ; for, indeed, almost the whole substance of it owes its original to the darkness and superstition of later ages, when pious frauds were made use of to amuse mankind, and frighten them into a sense of their duty.
Strana 272 - ... ideas of Unity, which have no place here; and are in every view foreign to the...
Strana 279 - ... his critics seem not to have been aware of it — His chief hero was not to have the twelve virtues in the degree in which the knights had each of them their own...
Strana 207 - Virtue fhould be plentifully found, Which of all goodly manners is the ground And roote of civil converfation : Right fo in faery court it did refound, Where courteous knights and ladies moft did won Of all on earth, and made a matchlefs paragon.
Strana 247 - I mean the poetry we still read, and which was founded upon it. Much has been said, and with great truth, of the felicity of Homer's age for poetical manners. But as Homer was a citizen of the world, when he had...