Hurd's Letters on Chivalry and Romance: With the Third Elizabethan DialogueH. Frowde, 1911 - 176 pages |
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Hurd's Letters on Chivalry and Romance: With the Third Elizabethan Dialogue Richard Hurd Affichage du livre entier - 1911 |
Hurd's Letters on Chivalry and Romance: With the Third Elizabethan Dialogue Richard Hurd Affichage du livre entier - 1911 |
Hurd's Letters on Chivalry and Romance, with The Third Elizabethan Dialogue Richard Hurd Affichage d'extraits - 1976 |
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ADDISON admiration adventures ages ANNA COMNENA antient appeared ARBUTHNOT Ariosto attended barbarous Bishop Bishop Warburton books of chivalry Brewood called castle CERVANTES character charms CHAUCER Chivalry and Romance circumstances classic classic unity court critics Crusades Dialogues DIGBY Don QUIXOTE ELIZABETH enchantments entertainment epic extravagant fable Faery Queen fairy fancy feudal fictions French gallantry genius Giant Gothic fictions Gothic manners Gothic Romance Grecian Hartlebury hath Hence hero Homer honour Hurd Hurd's ideas Iliad imagination instance Italian poetry Kenelworth King knights Knights-errant learned Letters on Chivalry Lord magic Majesty masques mind modern moral nature observe occasion old Romancers pagan passion poem poet poet's poetical poetry political Prince Arthur Princess prodigies proper reader real genius reason religion representation Richard Hurd SHAKESPEAR shew Sir TOPAZ sort Spenser spirit story superstition suppose Tasso taste tell thing tion truth unity virtues Worcester writers
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Page 116 - 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.
Page 117 - 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...
Page 111 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread, rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar.
Page 113 - Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with the apprehensions of witchcraft, prodigies, charms, and enchantments. There was not a village in England, that had not a ghost in it, the church-yards 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.
Page 154 - 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.
Page 117 - 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.
Page 53 - It was a sport very pleasant to see the bear, with his pink eyes leering after his enemies' approach ; the nimbleness and wait of the dog to take his advantage, and the force and experience of the bear again to avoid his assaults.
Page 125 - I am of opinion then, considering the Faery Queen as an epic or narrative poem constructed on Gothic 1 but, I think, ideas, that the Poet had done well to affect no other unity than that of design, by which his subject was connected.
Page 13 - And then, for the more solemn fancies of witchcraft and incantation, the horrors of the Gothic were above measure striking and terrible. The mummeries of the pagan priests were childish, but the Gothic enchanters shook and alarmed all nature.
Page 90 - It hath been through all ages ever seen, That •with the praise of arms and chivalry The prize of beauty still hath joined been, And that for reason's special privity ; For either doth on other much rely ; For he...