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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... study cannot be entered upon too foon , and that the rudiments at leaft of this fcience cannot be laid in too early . THE proper bufinefs of men , especially those of rank and quality , lies among The first and laft object of a ...
... study cannot be entered upon too foon , and that the rudiments at leaft of this fcience cannot be laid in too early . THE proper bufinefs of men , especially those of rank and quality , lies among The first and laft object of a ...
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... studies , is to turn our at- tention from the bad models of our own country , and enter into a free commerce and generous ftruggle , as it were , with our more advanced neighbours . And it is here again , as in the manners and arts of ...
... studies , is to turn our at- tention from the bad models of our own country , and enter into a free commerce and generous ftruggle , as it were , with our more advanced neighbours . And it is here again , as in the manners and arts of ...
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... study of those which are ftill better , in the learned languages , and I will ven- ture to fay , in his own . Ir any ... studies , which you allow me to fuppofe are of much greater im- portance . In 3 to 80 ON THE USES OF.
... study of those which are ftill better , in the learned languages , and I will ven- ture to fay , in his own . Ir any ... studies , which you allow me to fuppofe are of much greater im- portance . In 3 to 80 ON THE USES OF.
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... study than our own countrymen , nor a more useful one . The very modes and forms of external breed- ing catch the attention of unexperienced youth ; and are fo many obftacles to their real progress in this fcience . And , * when all is ...
... study than our own countrymen , nor a more useful one . The very modes and forms of external breed- ing catch the attention of unexperienced youth ; and are fo many obftacles to their real progress in this fcience . And , * when all is ...
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... folemn word , and the study of it has an air of fomething plaufible and im- pofing . But thofe , who know what the world is , will think it beft that a young man man begin with what is the first and laft concern 120 . ON THE USES OF.
... folemn word , and the study of it has an air of fomething plaufible and im- pofing . But thofe , who know what the world is , will think it beft that a young man man begin with what is the first and laft concern 120 . ON THE USES OF.
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 207 - ... knights, as to give birth to the attentions of gallantry. But this gallantry would take a refined turn, not only from the...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 272 - ... ideas of Unity, which have no place here; and are in every view foreign to the...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...