The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Moral and political dialoguesT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1811 |
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... poetic form , I should tell you , perhaps , the occasion that led us into this track of conversation . Nay , I should tell you what accident had brought us together ; and should even omit no circumstance of time or place , which might ...
... poetic form , I should tell you , perhaps , the occasion that led us into this track of conversation . Nay , I should tell you what accident had brought us together ; and should even omit no circumstance of time or place , which might ...
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... neral and universal humanity . EXTERNI nequid valeat per læve morari , to use the poet's words , though with some small difference , I believe in their application . VII . What says my friend to these principles ? 110 ON THE USES OF.
... neral and universal humanity . EXTERNI nequid valeat per læve morari , to use the poet's words , though with some small difference , I believe in their application . VII . What says my friend to these principles ? 110 ON THE USES OF.
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... I agree with your favourite poet ; of every polite study and indulgence even of the imagination , SAPERE , est et principium et fons , : VIII . These and still stronger objections might be DIALOGUE .192 ON THE USES OF.
... I agree with your favourite poet ; of every polite study and indulgence even of the imagination , SAPERE , est et principium et fons , : VIII . These and still stronger objections might be DIALOGUE .192 ON THE USES OF.
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... poets have made immortal . It may have sprung up amidst rude rocks , and blind deserts . But the noise and rapidity of its course , the extent of country it adorns , and the towns and pa- laces it ennobles , may lead a traveller out of ...
... poets have made immortal . It may have sprung up amidst rude rocks , and blind deserts . But the noise and rapidity of its course , the extent of country it adorns , and the towns and pa- laces it ennobles , may lead a traveller out of ...
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... assemblies . This is the poet's own account of court and royal citadel , The great school - maistresse of all Courtesy . 1 B. III . C. vi , s . I. LETTER III . And again , more largely in B. CHIVALRY AND ROMANCE . 247.
... assemblies . This is the poet's own account of court and royal citadel , The great school - maistresse of all Courtesy . 1 B. III . C. vi , s . I. LETTER III . And again , more largely in B. CHIVALRY AND ROMANCE . 247.
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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
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Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 315 - Segnius irritant animos demissa per aurem Quam quae sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus et quae Ipse sibi tradit spectator.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.