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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... any body fince has been able to understand , and yet a youth of eighteen be little the wifer for staring away two or three years in mysterious Egypt . LORD LORD SHAFTESBURY . WHY truly , if he carried nothing FOREIGN TRAVEL . 13.
... any body fince has been able to understand , and yet a youth of eighteen be little the wifer for staring away two or three years in mysterious Egypt . LORD LORD SHAFTESBURY . WHY truly , if he carried nothing FOREIGN TRAVEL . 13.
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... carried nothing abroad with him but the use of his eye- fight , I fhould be much of your mind with regard to the improvements he might be expected to bring back with him . But let him hear and obferve a little , as well as fee , and ...
... carried nothing abroad with him but the use of his eye- fight , I fhould be much of your mind with regard to the improvements he might be expected to bring back with him . But let him hear and obferve a little , as well as fee , and ...
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... carry my pretenfions ftill further , and affirm it had been much better if they had been so . I KNOW what is to be faid for the voyagers in ELIZABETH's time . We were just then emerging from ignorance and barbarity . Learning and the ...
... carry my pretenfions ftill further , and affirm it had been much better if they had been so . I KNOW what is to be faid for the voyagers in ELIZABETH's time . We were just then emerging from ignorance and barbarity . Learning and the ...
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... , LORD SHAFTESBURY . WITHOUT doubt , if thefe lefs im portant points engross all their attention . But can there be a difficulty in carrying G VOL . III . OR on the two defigns together ? efpecially , if a FOREIGN TRAVEL . 81.
... , LORD SHAFTESBURY . WITHOUT doubt , if thefe lefs im portant points engross all their attention . But can there be a difficulty in carrying G VOL . III . OR on the two defigns together ? efpecially , if a FOREIGN TRAVEL . 81.
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... fhould doubt , whether the evil be of confequence enough to deserve your indignation . Perhaps , no man has enough of certain virtues , that does not I 3 carry carry them fomething too far . The just degree , 86 ON THE USES OF.
... fhould doubt , whether the evil be of confequence enough to deserve your indignation . Perhaps , no man has enough of certain virtues , that does not I 3 carry carry them fomething too far . The just degree , 86 ON THE USES OF.
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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.