Moral and political dialogues: being the substance of several conversations between divers eminent persons, with critical and explanatory notes by the editor [R. Hurd]. With letters on chivalry and romance by mr. Hurd, Volumen3 |
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... adventures ; their " 66 66 eagerness to run to the fuccour of the diftreffed ; and the pride they took in ' redreffing wrongs , and removing grie- " vances ; " all these distinguishing cha- racters of genuine Chivalry are ex- plained on ...
... adventures ; their " 66 66 eagerness to run to the fuccour of the diftreffed ; and the pride they took in ' redreffing wrongs , and removing grie- " vances ; " all these distinguishing cha- racters of genuine Chivalry are ex- plained on ...
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... adventures ; which at first , no doubt , was confined to those of their own party , but afterwards , by the habit of acting on this principle , would be extended much further . So that , in process of time , we find the Knights errant ...
... adventures ; which at first , no doubt , was confined to those of their own party , but afterwards , by the habit of acting on this principle , would be extended much further . So that , in process of time , we find the Knights errant ...
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... adventures ; and their religious zeal had infused high notions of piety , justice , and chastity . THE scene of action being now more confined , they turned themselves , from the world's debate , to private and per- fonal animofities ...
... adventures ; and their religious zeal had infused high notions of piety , justice , and chastity . THE scene of action being now more confined , they turned themselves , from the world's debate , to private and per- fonal animofities ...
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... adventures . and fucceffes . And thus it was in Greece . For chief to Poets fuch refpect belongs . By rival nations courted for their Songs ; Thefe , ftates invite , and mighty kings admira Wide as the Sun difplays his vital fire . Od ...
... adventures . and fucceffes . And thus it was in Greece . For chief to Poets fuch refpect belongs . By rival nations courted for their Songs ; Thefe , ftates invite , and mighty kings admira Wide as the Sun difplays his vital fire . Od ...
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... claim and allowance of fome adventure . Now laying down this practice , as a foundation for the poet's defign , you will fee how properly the Faery Queen is conducted . " I " I DEVISE , fays the poet him- " felf CHIVALRY AND ROMANCE . 269.
... claim and allowance of fome adventure . Now laying down this practice , as a foundation for the poet's defign , you will fee how properly the Faery Queen is conducted . " I " I DEVISE , fays the poet him- " felf CHIVALRY AND ROMANCE . 269.
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Página 254 - 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 197 - ... knights, as to give birth to the attentions of gallantry. But this gallantry would take a refined turn, not only from the...
Página 250 - 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 255 - Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Página 324 - The only favourable circumftance that attended him (and this no doubt encouraged, if it did not produce his untimely project) was, that he was fomewhat befriended in thefe...
Página 252 - Under this idea then of a Gothic, not classical poem, the Faerie Queene is to be read and criticized. And on these principles, it would not be difficult to unfold its merit in another way than has been hitherto attempted.
Página 259 - ... grievances. This was the real practice, in the days of pure and ancient Chivalry. And an image of this practice was afterwards kept up in the...
Página 270 - This was the poet's moral ; and what way of expressing this moral in the history but by making Prince Arthur appear in each adventure, and in a manner subordinate to its proper hero ? Thus, though inferior to each in his own specific virtue, he is superior to all, by uniting...
Página 250 - There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it; the churchyards were all haunted; every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it; and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit.
Página 237 - Liberata into competition with the Iliad. So far as the heroic and Gothic manners are the same, the pictures of each, if well taken, must be equally entertaining. But I go further, and maintain that the circumstances in which they differ are clearly to the advantage of the Gothic designers.