Moral and Political Dialogues: With Letters on Chivalry and Romance, Bind 3T. Cadell, 1776 |
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abſurd almoſt antient ARIOSTO becauſe beſt buſineſs cauſe character Chivalry circumſtances claffic claſſic cloſe confideration converſation courſe deſerve deſign diſcipline eſpecially exerciſes expoſe faid Fairy Queen fame fancies faſhionable feudal firſt fome foreign travel fuch genius Gothic inſtance inſtitution inſtruction itſelf juſt knights laſt leaſt leſs LOCKE LORD LORD SHAFTESBURY LORD SHAFTESBURY Lordſhip manners maſters ment mind moral moſt muſt myſelf nature neceſſary obſervation occafion paſs paſſed paſſions perſons philoſopher pleaſe poem poet politeneſs poſe preſent progreſs proper purpoſe queſtion racter reaſon repreſentation reſpect reſt Romance ſame ſay ſcene ſchools ſcience ſee ſeems ſeen ſenſe ſerve ſet ſeveral ſex ſhall ſhew ſhip ſhort ſhould Sir TOPAZ ſocieties ſome ſomething ſpeak SPENSER ſpirit ſpring ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtory ſtudy ſubject ſuch ſuperior ſuppoſe ſurely ſyſtem TASSO taſte themſelves theſe thing thoſe tion TOPAZ underſtand Univerſities uſe virtue whoſe young youth
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Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 145 - America, and at the Cape of Good Hope. He may then examine how she appears...
Side 272 - ... ideas of Unity, which have no place here; and are in every view foreign to the...
Side 300 - They think it enough, if they can but bring you to imagine the possibility of them.
Side 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...
Side 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...