Moral and Political Dialogues: With Letters on Chivalry and Romance, Volume 3T. Cadell, 1776 - Chivalry |
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... Italy , in particular , was in those days , as it had long been , the theatre of polite- nefs , and without doubt ... Italian Travellers . Yet , methinks , they had done better to stay at home , and at least import the arts of Italy ...
... Italy , in particular , was in those days , as it had long been , the theatre of polite- nefs , and without doubt ... Italian Travellers . Yet , methinks , they had done better to stay at home , and at least import the arts of Italy ...
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... Italy over - run with the worst kind of Deism . " There our travelling gentry first picked it up for " a rarity . And , indeed , at firft , without much " malice . It was brought home in a cargo of new " fashions : and worn , for fome ...
... Italy over - run with the worst kind of Deism . " There our travelling gentry first picked it up for " a rarity . And , indeed , at firft , without much " malice . It was brought home in a cargo of new " fashions : and worn , for fome ...
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... Italian Travellers .--- As to the worthies of CHARLES's court , your Lordship , without doubt , is difpofed to divert yourself with them . For , if they brought any thing with them from France , befides the dress of its follies and ...
... Italian Travellers .--- As to the worthies of CHARLES's court , your Lordship , without doubt , is difpofed to divert yourself with them . For , if they brought any thing with them from France , befides the dress of its follies and ...
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... it , at least , prevail , as are luckily unknown to us . And fuch , I doubt , were the fruits of our Italian and French travels . C 3 BUT . BUT allowing that Vice were of every clime , the FOREIGN TRAVEL . 21 LORD SHAFTESBURY. ...
... it , at least , prevail , as are luckily unknown to us . And fuch , I doubt , were the fruits of our Italian and French travels . C 3 BUT . BUT allowing that Vice were of every clime , the FOREIGN TRAVEL . 21 LORD SHAFTESBURY. ...
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... Italy , abounds in men . of distinguished literature and politeness . Nay , a German Profeffor may supply the place of an Univerfity Doctor . Think , what illuftrious perfons may be fome- times met with even in a Dutch town ; and 2 and ...
... Italy , abounds in men . of distinguished literature and politeness . Nay , a German Profeffor may supply the place of an Univerfity Doctor . Think , what illuftrious perfons may be fome- times met with even in a Dutch town ; and 2 and ...
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Page 265 - Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made hell grant what love did seek. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 263 - Yet we see thro' all his poetry, where his enthusiasm flames out most, a certain predilection for the legends of chivalry before the fables of Greece. This circumstance, you know, has given offence to the austerer and more mechanical critics.
Page 304 - THUS, in the poet's world, all is marvellous and extraordinary; yet not unnatural in one fenfe, as it agrees to the conceptions that are readily entertained of thefe magical and wonder-working natures. THIS trite maxim of following "Nature is further miftaken, in applying it indifcriminately to all forts of poetry.
Page 145 - America, and at the Cape of Good Hope. He may then examine how she appears...
Page 272 - ... ideas of Unity, which have no place here; and are in every view foreign to the...
Page 300 - They think it enough, if they can but bring you to imagine the possibility of them.
Page 302 - Men of cold fancies and philosophical dispositions object to this kind of poetry, that it has not probability enough to affect the imagination. But to this it may be answered, that we are sure, in general, there are many intellectual beings in the World besides ourselves, and several species of spirits...
Page 269 - ... for all their 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...