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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... poetic form , I fhould tell you , perhaps , the occafion that led us into this track of converfa- tion . Nay , I should tell you what acci- dent had brought us together ; and fhould even omit no circumstance of time or place , which ...
... poetic form , I fhould tell you , perhaps , the occafion that led us into this track of converfa- tion . Nay , I should tell you what acci- dent had brought us together ; and fhould even omit no circumstance of time or place , which ...
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... poet's words , though with some fmall difference , I believe , in their ap plication . WHAT fays my friend to thefe princi ples ? are they just and reasonable ? or , am I going to build on precarious and infecure foundations ? ... MR ...
... poet's words , though with some fmall difference , I believe , in their ap plication . WHAT fays my friend to thefe princi ples ? are they just and reasonable ? or , am I going to build on precarious and infecure foundations ? ... MR ...
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... poet ; of every polite study and indulgence even of the imagination , P SAPERE , eft et principium et fons . V THESE and ftill ftronger objections : might be made to your partiality for the fine arts . But I am contented to wave them ...
... poet ; of every polite study and indulgence even of the imagination , P SAPERE , eft et principium et fons . V THESE and ftill ftronger objections : might be made to your partiality for the fine arts . But I am contented to wave them ...
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... poets have made immortal . It may have fprung up amidst rude rocks , and blind deferts . But the noife and rapidity of its course , the extent of country it adorns , and the towns and palaces it en- nobles , may lead a traveller out of ...
... poets have made immortal . It may have fprung up amidst rude rocks , and blind deferts . But the noife and rapidity of its course , the extent of country it adorns , and the towns and palaces it en- nobles , may lead a traveller out of ...
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... poet's own account of court and royal citadel , The great school - maiftreffe of all Courtesy . B. III . c . vi . s . I. And again , more largely in B. VI . c . i , S. I. Of Court it seems men Courtefie do call , For that it there moft ...
... poet's own account of court and royal citadel , The great school - maiftreffe of all Courtesy . B. III . c . vi . s . I. And again , more largely in B. VI . c . i , S. I. Of Court it seems men Courtefie do call , For that it there moft ...
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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...