The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Հատոր 6R. Cadell, 1834 |
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... cause which has produced such general and permanent difference betwixt the ancients and moderns , as that which has arisen out of the institution of chivalry . In attempting to treat this curious and important sub- ject , rather as ...
... cause which has produced such general and permanent difference betwixt the ancients and moderns , as that which has arisen out of the institution of chivalry . In attempting to treat this curious and important sub- ject , rather as ...
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... causes from which it drew its peculiar characters , and the circumstances in which it differs so widely from the martial character as it existed , either among the ancient Greeks and Romans , or in other countries and nations . II . We ...
... causes from which it drew its peculiar characters , and the circumstances in which it differs so widely from the martial character as it existed , either among the ancient Greeks and Romans , or in other countries and nations . II . We ...
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... causes . Of patriotism , considered as a dis- tinct predilection to the interests of one kingdom , we find comparatively few traces in the institutions of knighthood . But the love of personal freedom , and the obligation to maintain ...
... causes . Of patriotism , considered as a dis- tinct predilection to the interests of one kingdom , we find comparatively few traces in the institutions of knighthood . But the love of personal freedom , and the obligation to maintain ...
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... cause they afforded too much fuel for the military zeal of the ancient Goths , were now commented upon to animate the sinking courage of their de- scendants . Victory and glory on earth , and a happy immortality after death , were ...
... cause they afforded too much fuel for the military zeal of the ancient Goths , were now commented upon to animate the sinking courage of their de- scendants . Victory and glory on earth , and a happy immortality after death , were ...
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... cause of quarrel than the difference of religious faith . The duties of morality were indeed formally imposed on him by the oath of his order , as well as that of defending the church , and extir- pating heresy and misbelief . But , in ...
... cause of quarrel than the difference of religious faith . The duties of morality were indeed formally imposed on him by the oath of his order , as well as that of defending the church , and extir- pating heresy and misbelief . But , in ...
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Էջ 343 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth : — For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings; Carry them here and there ; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass...
Էջ 343 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object; can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Էջ 350 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
Էջ 279 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Էջ 307 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Էջ 361 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them.
Էջ 282 - For ordinary it is that two young princes fall in love; after many traverses she is got with child, delivered of a fair boy, he is lost, groweth a man, falleth in love, and is ready to get another child, — and all this in two hours...
Էջ 276 - But, besides these gross absurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion; so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained.
Էջ 307 - It is false that any representation is mistaken for reality, that any dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited.
Էջ 54 - Call you that desperate, which, by a line Of institution, from our ancestors Hath been derived down to us, and received In a succession for the noblest way Of breeding up our youth, in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman...