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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... taken place between men , that had any ufe or knowledge of it . THIS , I fay , might be the opinion of men of better breeding ; of thofe , who are acquainted with the fashion , and are themselves practifed in the conversations , of the ...
... taken place between men , that had any ufe or knowledge of it . THIS , I fay , might be the opinion of men of better breeding ; of thofe , who are acquainted with the fashion , and are themselves practifed in the conversations , of the ...
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... taken up . ALL this , it must be owned , is very true . But as it is not my intention to fubmit the following draught to fuch critics , you , who know me , will accept this recital , made in my own way , and pretty much as it paffed ...
... taken up . ALL this , it must be owned , is very true . But as it is not my intention to fubmit the following draught to fuch critics , you , who know me , will accept this recital , made in my own way , and pretty much as it paffed ...
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... taken to polish and form the manners of our liberal youth , and to fit them for the bufinefs and converfation of the world ? MR . LOCKE . " I THINK not . I fee but little good , in proportion to the time it takes up , that can be drawn ...
... taken to polish and form the manners of our liberal youth , and to fit them for the bufinefs and converfation of the world ? MR . LOCKE . " I THINK not . I fee but little good , in proportion to the time it takes up , that can be drawn ...
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... taken control its operations by another principle . On this account , wife men have had recourfe to various expedients ; fuch as the provision of Laws ; the culture of Arts and Letters ; and , in general , all that discipline which ...
... taken control its operations by another principle . On this account , wife men have had recourfe to various expedients ; fuch as the provision of Laws ; the culture of Arts and Letters ; and , in general , all that discipline which ...
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... taken from the ftable or kennel ; and they have hardly words for any other fort of converfation . In conjunction with this habit , or in direct confequence of it , they plunge themselves into the brutalities of the bottle and table ...
... taken from the ftable or kennel ; and they have hardly words for any other fort of converfation . In conjunction with this habit , or in direct confequence of it , they plunge themselves into the brutalities of the bottle and table ...
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abfurd accompliſhed adventures againſt almoſt anſwer antient ARIOSTO beft beſt buſineſs cafe character Chivalry circumſtances claffic confideration converfation defign difcipline eſpecially faid Fairy Queen fame fancies faſhionable fatire fcene feem feen fenfe ferve feudal fhall fhew fhould focieties fome fomething foon foreign travel fpirit ftate ftill ftories ftudies fubject fuch fuperftition fuperior fuppofe furely fyftem genius Gothic Gothic fictions guife himſelf Iliad inftance inftruction itſelf juft juſt knights knowledge laft leaft learning leaſt lefs LETTER LOCKE LORD SHAFTESBURY Lordship mafter manners mind moft moral moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary obfervation occafion paffion perfons philofopher pleaſe poem poet polite prefent proper purpoſe queftion racter reafon refpect reft Romance ſay ſchools ſenſe ſhall Sir TOPAZ ſome SPENSER ſtate ſtill ſtudy TASSO taſte thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion TOPAZ underſtand Univerſities uſe virtue young youth
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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...