The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Moral and political dialoguesT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1811 |
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... reason why I cannot promise you the same entertainment from it . We had no sooner come together , than Sir JOHN MAYNARD began with his usual vivacity . I have been thinking , my lord , how dexte- rous a game I have played with you , in ...
... reason why I cannot promise you the same entertainment from it . We had no sooner come together , than Sir JOHN MAYNARD began with his usual vivacity . I have been thinking , my lord , how dexte- rous a game I have played with you , in ...
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... reason to conclude , from the recent parts of our history , either that there never was a rightful claim in the people to civil liberty , or that they , as well as their princes , had lost all sense of it . I doubt , the most your ...
... reason to conclude , from the recent parts of our history , either that there never was a rightful claim in the people to civil liberty , or that they , as well as their princes , had lost all sense of it . I doubt , the most your ...
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... reason than before ; since , if the difficulty be half so great as is pretended , this change of the speaker is ... reasons must be assigned for these contradictory appearances . I embrace the latter part of this alternative without ...
... reason than before ; since , if the difficulty be half so great as is pretended , this change of the speaker is ... reasons must be assigned for these contradictory appearances . I embrace the latter part of this alternative without ...
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... carrying the pre rogative of the chair to its utmost height . But , if we submit to it in other places , is it reason- able you should require us to do so here ? Be- VI sides , your lordship forgets that I am too 22 ON THE CONSTITUTION OF.
... carrying the pre rogative of the chair to its utmost height . But , if we submit to it in other places , is it reason- able you should require us to do so here ? Be- VI sides , your lordship forgets that I am too 22 ON THE CONSTITUTION OF.
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... the most entire dependence . In the mean time , the nation rejoiced with great reason at its deliverance from a foreign I DISC . Part II . p . 125 , VI . tyranny and the lavish distribution of that DIALOGUE 30 ON THE CONSTITUTION OF.
... the most entire dependence . In the mean time , the nation rejoiced with great reason at its deliverance from a foreign I DISC . Part II . p . 125 , VI . tyranny and the lavish distribution of that DIALOGUE 30 ON THE CONSTITUTION OF.
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adventures ages ancient appear ARIOSTO authority barbarous BISHOP OF WORCESTER BURNET canon law character Chivalry church circumstances civil classic classic Unity clergy consider constitution court critics crown DIALOGUE VIII doubt English exercise Fairy Queen fancies favour feudal foreign travel genius Gothic fictions Gothic manners hath HENRY VII honour house of STUART house of TUDOR ideas Iliad indulged Italian king king's knights knowledge learning least LETTER liberty LOCKE LORD SHAFTESBURY Lordship mancers MAYNARD mean ment mind moral nation nature neral observation occasion papal parliament passions perhaps person Philosopher poem poet poetry politeness prejudices prerogative pretence princes principles prodigious proper racter reason reformation regal reign RICHARD HURD Romance sense shew Sir TOPAZ SOMERS sort SPENSER spirit suppose supremacy TASSO taste thing tion true truth usurped virtue word young youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 283 - 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 owned the virtuous Ring and Glass, And of the wondrous Horse of Brass, On which the Tartar King did ride...
Página 282 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, 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 285 - 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 279 - 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 281 - I suppose, his growing fanaticism; partly, his ambition to take a different rout from Spenser; but chiefly perhaps, the discredit into which the stories of chivalry had now fallen by the immortal satire of Cervantes. Yet we see thro...
Página 339 - What we have gotten by this revolution, you will say, is a great deal of good sense. What we have lost is a world of fine fabling; the illusion of which is so grateful to the charmed spirit that in spite of philosophy and fashion.
Página 315 - Segnius irritant animos demissa per aurem Quam quae sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus et quae Ipse sibi tradit spectator.
Página 319 - It is also true, that writers do not succeed so well in painting what they have heard, as what they believe, themselves, or at least observe in others a facility of believing.
Página 312 - 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...
Página 31 - That as to dispute what God may do is blasphemy, ... so is it sedition in subjects to dispute what a king may do in the height of his power.