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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Strana 47
... observation of men and things ; from an acquaintance with the cuftoms and ufages of other nations ; from fome insight into their policies , go- vernment , religion ; in a word , from the ftudy and contemplation of men ; as they prefent ...
... observation of men and things ; from an acquaintance with the cuftoms and ufages of other nations ; from fome insight into their policies , go- vernment , religion ; in a word , from the ftudy and contemplation of men ; as they prefent ...
Strana 49
... observe their difpofitions , to inspect and analyze their characters . What a field is here for an intelligent young man , affifted by the fuperior lights and experience of an able governor ! And what a harveft of true knowledge and ...
... observe their difpofitions , to inspect and analyze their characters . What a field is here for an intelligent young man , affifted by the fuperior lights and experience of an able governor ! And what a harveft of true knowledge and ...
Strana 51
... observation beyond the narrow circle of his companions , or even his own family .. 75 ) s My panegyric , as you call this plain reprefentation of facts and things , would never have an end , if I were to take to myfelf all the ...
... observation beyond the narrow circle of his companions , or even his own family .. 75 ) s My panegyric , as you call this plain reprefentation of facts and things , would never have an end , if I were to take to myfelf all the ...
Strana 243
... observe , that this distinction is the less neceffary to be attended to in the prefent cafe , be- caufe the law of female fucceffion , when- ever it was introduced , had certainly taken place long before the Romancers wrote , from whom ...
... observe , that this distinction is the less neceffary to be attended to in the prefent cafe , be- caufe the law of female fucceffion , when- ever it was introduced , had certainly taken place long before the Romancers wrote , from whom ...
Strana 317
... observation was , firft , made to me ) to understand , that this fagacious perfon was DAN CHAUCER ; who in a reign that almoft realized the wonders of Ro- mantic Chivalry , not only difcerned the abfurdity of the old Romances , but has ...
... observation was , firft , made to me ) to understand , that this fagacious perfon was DAN CHAUCER ; who in a reign that almoft realized the wonders of Ro- mantic Chivalry , not only difcerned the abfurdity of the old Romances , but has ...
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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...