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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... effects , you roundly determine against the thing itself ; as if the national improvement in arts and civility , which unquestionably arofe from it , were to go for nothing ! MR . LOCKE . I WOULD have it go for no more than it is ...
... effects , you roundly determine against the thing itself ; as if the national improvement in arts and civility , which unquestionably arofe from it , were to go for nothing ! MR . LOCKE . I WOULD have it go for no more than it is ...
Strana 38
... effect : and if any spark of the divine particle be ftill unfubdued , they quench it forthwith in the strongest wines , or , which fuits their taste and defign beft , in their own country liquor , THIS fottifh debauch leads to others ...
... effect : and if any spark of the divine particle be ftill unfubdued , they quench it forthwith in the strongest wines , or , which fuits their taste and defign beft , in their own country liquor , THIS fottifh debauch leads to others ...
Strana 84
... effect , your Lordship was pleased to tell us a very melancholy ftory . England , it feems , is over - run with barbarism and ignorance ; its inha- bitants are rude and uncivilized ; and nothing can be learnt among them , which is fit ...
... effect , your Lordship was pleased to tell us a very melancholy ftory . England , it feems , is over - run with barbarism and ignorance ; its inha- bitants are rude and uncivilized ; and nothing can be learnt among them , which is fit ...
Strana 99
... effect of an ill education , as the proper gift and pro- vifion of wife nature . Every stage of life has its own fet of manners , that is fuited to it , and beft becomes it . Each is beautiful in its season ; and you might as H 2 1S ...
... effect of an ill education , as the proper gift and pro- vifion of wife nature . Every stage of life has its own fet of manners , that is fuited to it , and beft becomes it . Each is beautiful in its season ; and you might as H 2 1S ...
Strana 103
... effect , is only a per- petual boyism , or rather a portentous mixture of both states , without the vir- tues of either . I AM far from meaning by all this , and your Lordship will be as far from fufpecting me to mean , that an eafy un ...
... effect , is only a per- petual boyism , or rather a portentous mixture of both states , without the vir- tues of either . I AM far from meaning by all this , and your Lordship will be as far from fufpecting me to mean , that an eafy un ...
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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...