Moral and political dialoguesT. Cadell and W. Davies, strand., 1811 |
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... Italian Travel- lers . Yet , methinks , they had done better to stay at home , and at least import the arts of Italy , if they were necessary to them , in sager heads than their own . I say this , because it is no secret that the ...
... Italian Travel- lers . Yet , methinks , they had done better to stay at home , and at least import the arts of Italy , if they were necessary to them , in sager heads than their own . I say this , because it is no secret that the ...
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... Italian Travellers . - As to the worthies of CHARLES'S Court , your Lordship , without doubt , is disposed to divert yourself with them . For , if they brought any thing with them from " over - run with the worst kind of Deism . There ...
... Italian Travellers . - As to the worthies of CHARLES'S Court , your Lordship , without doubt , is disposed to divert yourself with them . For , if they brought any thing with them from " over - run with the worst kind of Deism . There ...
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... Italian and French travels . But allowing that Vice were of every clime , the same every where , and equally malignant , I should still imagine our youth to be safer from the infection at home , under the eye and wing of their own ...
... Italian and French travels . But allowing that Vice were of every clime , the same every where , and equally malignant , I should still imagine our youth to be safer from the infection at home , under the eye and wing of their own ...
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... Italy , abounds in men of distinguished literature and politeness . Nay , a German Professor may supply the place of an University Doctor . Think , what illustrious persons may be sometimes met with even in a Dutch town : and how many ...
... Italy , abounds in men of distinguished literature and politeness . Nay , a German Professor may supply the place of an University Doctor . Think , what illustrious persons may be sometimes met with even in a Dutch town : and how many ...
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... Italian masters . Nor think , that such an emulation as this would be without its use , even in a moral and political view . Beauty and virtue are nearer of kin , than every one is perhaps aware of : and the mind that is taken with the ...
... Italian masters . Nor think , that such an emulation as this would be without its use , even in a moral and political view . Beauty and virtue are nearer of kin , than every one is perhaps aware of : and the mind that is taken with the ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
adventures ages ancient appear ARIOSTO arts authority barbarous breeding BURNET canon law character Chivalry church circumstances civil classic classic Unity clergy constitution court critics crown DIALOGUE VI DIALOGUE VIII Don QUIXOTE doubt English exercise Fairy Queen fancies favour feudal foreign travel further genius Gothic fictions Gothic manners Gothic Romance hath HENRY VII honour house of TUDOR ideas Iliad indulgence 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 pretend princes principles prodigious proper racter reason reformation regal reign 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 291 - 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 127 - Quid verum atque decens euro et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum ; Condo et compono quae mox depromere possim.
Página 237 - The greatest geniuses of our own and foreign countries, such as Ariosto and Tasso in Italy, and Spenser and Milton in England, were seduced by these barbarities of their forefathers; were even charmed by the Gothic romances. Was this caprice and absurdity in them? Or may there not be something in the Gothic romance peculiarly suited to the views of a genius and to the ends of poetry?
Página 292 - 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; And if aught else great bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of turneys, and of trophies hung, Of forests, and enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear.
Página 316 - The fairest of her sex Angelica His daughter, sought by many pro.west knights, Both Paynim, and the peers of Charlemain.
Página 288 - 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 267 - Cum bellum civitas aut illatum defendit aut infert, magistratus qui ei bello praesint, ut vitae necisque habeant potestatem deliguntur. In pace nullus est communis magistratus, sed principes regionum atque pagorum inter suos jus dicunt, controversiasque minuunt.
Página 295 - Queen then, as a Gothic poem, • derives its METHOD, as well as the other characters of its composition, from the established modes and ideas of Chivalry.
Página 287 - There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it, the churchyards were all haunted, every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it, and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit.
Página 321 - ... at least we have all heard so many pleasing relations in favour of them, that we do not care for seeing through the falsehood, and willingly give ourselves up to so agreeable an imposture.