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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... state , for fear of thofe abuses , is methinks but acting with the weak apprehenfion of fond mothers ; who deny their children . the liberty of ftirring from the fire - fide , for fear of the dirt or damp air , which , in their field ...
... state , for fear of thofe abuses , is methinks but acting with the weak apprehenfion of fond mothers ; who deny their children . the liberty of ftirring from the fire - fide , for fear of the dirt or damp air , which , in their field ...
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... states and countries , tell me , if there can be any thing more ridiculous than the idiot PREJUDICES of our home- bred gentlemen , which fhew themselves , whenever their own dear Ifland comes , in D 2 any any respect , to be the topic ...
... states and countries , tell me , if there can be any thing more ridiculous than the idiot PREJUDICES of our home- bred gentlemen , which fhew themselves , whenever their own dear Ifland comes , in D 2 any any respect , to be the topic ...
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... states , without the vir- tues of either . I AM far from meaning by all this , and your Lordship will be as far from fufpecting me to mean , that an eafy un- conftrained manner is not an amiable and agreeable thing . I am only for ...
... states , without the vir- tues of either . I AM far from meaning by all this , and your Lordship will be as far from fufpecting me to mean , that an eafy un- conftrained manner is not an amiable and agreeable thing . I am only for ...
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... state of mankind ; and require him to waste his time and obfervation on llaves , madmen , or savages ; states , in which reafon and civility have no place , and where huma- nity itself , almoft , disappears . ADMIRABLE advice this , to ...
... state of mankind ; and require him to waste his time and obfervation on llaves , madmen , or savages ; states , in which reafon and civility have no place , and where huma- nity itself , almoft , disappears . ADMIRABLE advice this , to ...
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... state , it would be impoffible to carry on a defign of this nature , with- out endangering the new fettlement , or exposing it at least to many odious and inconvenient imputations : and they faw , 2 befides , befides , that the fpirit ...
... state , it would be impoffible to carry on a defign of this nature , with- out endangering the new fettlement , or exposing it at least to many odious and inconvenient imputations : and they faw , 2 befides , befides , that the fpirit ...
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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...