Moral and Political Dialogues: With Letters on Chivalry and Romance: by the Reverend Doctor Hurd. In Three VolumesT. Cadell in the Strand, 1776 - Ethics |
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... fubject , of which You , of all men , are the greatest master . For who could fo well advise the party , you speak of , or refolve the general queftion concerning The Ufes of Foreign Travel , confidered as a part of modern breeding and ...
... fubject , of which You , of all men , are the greatest master . For who could fo well advise the party , you speak of , or refolve the general queftion concerning The Ufes of Foreign Travel , confidered as a part of modern breeding and ...
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... fubject . You know the esteem I have of this Philofopher ; I mean , for fuch of his writings , as are most popular ... fubjects , in which that world takes itfelf to be moft of all , and is , in truth , very nearly concerned . His ...
... fubject . You know the esteem I have of this Philofopher ; I mean , for fuch of his writings , as are most popular ... fubjects , in which that world takes itfelf to be moft of all , and is , in truth , very nearly concerned . His ...
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... fubject . Ir I were compofing a Dialogue in the old mimetical , or 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 ...
... fubject . Ir I were compofing a Dialogue in the old mimetical , or 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 ...
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... fubject in the following manner . LORD SHAFTESBURY . AND is not TRAVELLING then , in your opinion , one of the beft of thofe methods , which can be taken to polish and form the manners of our liberal youth , and to fit them for the ...
... fubject in the following manner . LORD SHAFTESBURY . AND is not TRAVELLING then , in your opinion , one of the beft of thofe methods , which can be taken to polish and form the manners of our liberal youth , and to fit them for the ...
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... fubject , they care not how foon they difable themselves for either . To this end , their firloins are of fovereign effect : and if any spark of the divine particle be ftill unfubdued , they quench it forthwith in the strongest wines ...
... fubject , they care not how foon they difable themselves for either . To this end , their firloins are of fovereign effect : and if any spark of the divine particle be ftill unfubdued , they quench it forthwith in the strongest wines ...
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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 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.
Page 207 - ... knights, as to give birth to the attentions of gallantry. But this gallantry would take a refined turn, not only from the...
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 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.
Page 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.
Page 272 - ... ideas of Unity, which have no place here; and are in every view foreign to the...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...