 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.  The works of Richard Hurd - Seite 342von Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edmund Spenser - 1807 - 446 Seiten
...would gain admittance into reasonahle company. What we have gotten hy this revolution it will he said, is a great deal of good sense. What we have lost, is a world of fine fahling ; tlic illusion of which is so grateful to the charmed spirits that, in spile of philosophy... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 366 Seiten
...truth," as Sir JOHN DENHAM somewhere expresses her present enforced state, not unhappily. 1 f C\Vhat we have gotten by this revolution, you will say, is...sense. What we have lost, is a world of fine fabling ; e illusion of which is so grateful to the charmed Spirit, that, in spite of philosophy and fashion,... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 208 Seiten
...decline of Gothic poetry, and the revolution brought about during the Augustan age. He sadly remarked, " What we have gotten by this revolution, you will say,...sense. What we have lost, is a world of fine fabling." He did not perceive with what gigantic strides the counter-revolution was about to move. We must regard... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 232 Seiten
...decline of Gothic poetry, and the revolution brought about during the Augustan age. He sadly remarked, " What we have gotten by this revolution, you will say,...sense. What we have lost, is a world of fine fabling." He did not perceive with what gigantic strides the counter-revolution was about to move. We must regard... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 236 Seiten
...decline of Gothic poetry, and the revolution brought about during the Augustan age. He sadly remarked, " What we have gotten by this revolution, you will say,...sense. What we have lost, is a world of fine fabling." He did not perceive with what gigantic strides the counter-revolution was about to move. We must regard... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 216 Seiten
...decline of Gothic poetry, and the revolution brought about during the Augustan age. He sadly remarked, " What we have gotten by this revolution, you will say,...great deal of good sense. What we have lost, is a worlcT of fine fabling." He did not perceive with what gigantic strides the counter-revolution was... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 496 Seiten
...the critics." "What we have gotten," concludes the final letter of the series, "by this revolution, is a great deal of good sense. What we have lost is...charmed spirit that, in spite of philosophy and fashion ' Faery ' Spenser still ranks highest among the poets; I mean with all those who are either come of... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1904 - 684 Seiten
...Stooping with disenchanted wings to earth." " What," he concludes, " we have gotten is, you will say, a great deal of good sense ; what we have lost is a world of tine fabling, the illusion of which is so grateful to the charmed spirit that, in spite of philosophy... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1913 - 594 Seiten
...eight years after Thomas Warton on The Faerie Queene). What we have gotten by this revolution, yon will say, is a great deal of good sense. What we have...Charmed Spirit that in spite of philosophy and fashion Faery Spenser still ranks highest among the Poets; I mean with all those who are either come of that... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1911 - 188 Seiten
...her will, to ally herself with strict truth, if she would gain admittance into reasonable company.3 What we have gotten by this revolution, you will say,...Spirit ; that, in spite of philosophy and fashion, Faery Spenser still ranks 1 prejudices), ! And the Muse, who had * against her will, " To stoop with... | |
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