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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... person treated ! They scarcely give you leave to fuppofe that any vir- tuous quality can thrive out of their own air , or that good fenfe can be expreffed . in any foreign language . Nay , their foolish prepoffeffion extends to their ...
... person treated ! They scarcely give you leave to fuppofe that any vir- tuous quality can thrive out of their own air , or that good fenfe can be expreffed . in any foreign language . Nay , their foolish prepoffeffion extends to their ...
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... person . AND here , again , how deficient is the turn and course of our ordinary edu- cation ! Whither would you fend our young pupil , to accomplish himself in the neceffary art of fpeaking handfomely and thinking justly ? What ...
... person . AND here , again , how deficient is the turn and course of our ordinary edu- cation ! Whither would you fend our young pupil , to accomplish himself in the neceffary art of fpeaking handfomely and thinking justly ? What ...
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... will , the very decorum , which their character imposes upon them ; these circumftances seem gene- rally to have marked them out , as the properest propereft persons to form the manners and cultivate the minds 174 ON THE USES OF.
... will , the very decorum , which their character imposes upon them ; these circumftances seem gene- rally to have marked them out , as the properest propereft persons to form the manners and cultivate the minds 174 ON THE USES OF.
Strana 175
... persons to form the manners and cultivate the minds of youth , in all countries . In our own , that propriety strikes one the more , fince their preju- dices , of whatever kind , are but in com- mon to them with other fpeculative and ...
... persons to form the manners and cultivate the minds of youth , in all countries . In our own , that propriety strikes one the more , fince their preju- dices , of whatever kind , are but in com- mon to them with other fpeculative and ...
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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...