The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Essays on chivalry, romance, and the dramaR.Cadell, 1834 |
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Pàgina 7
... received his order was obliged to wear white armour , and a shield without a device , until , by some daring and distinguished achievement , he had acquired title to an honourable badge of distinction . If this correspondence of customs ...
... received his order was obliged to wear white armour , and a shield without a device , until , by some daring and distinguished achievement , he had acquired title to an honourable badge of distinction . If this correspondence of customs ...
Pàgina 13
... received the honour of knighthood . He was made to assume a white dress , in imitation of the neophytes of the church . Fast and confession were added to vigils ; the puri- fication of the bath was imposed on the military acolyte , in ...
... received the honour of knighthood . He was made to assume a white dress , in imitation of the neophytes of the church . Fast and confession were added to vigils ; the puri- fication of the bath was imposed on the military acolyte , in ...
Pàgina 25
... - biggia Saga we are informed , that Thordisa , the mother of the celebrated Pontiff Snorro , and wife of Borko of Helgafels , received a blow from her husband . The provocation was strong , for the matron ESSAY ON CHIVALRY . 25.
... - biggia Saga we are informed , that Thordisa , the mother of the celebrated Pontiff Snorro , and wife of Borko of Helgafels , received a blow from her husband . The provocation was strong , for the matron ESSAY ON CHIVALRY . 25.
Pàgina 37
... received a defiance from Douglas , threatening , that , let him use his utmost vigilance , he would recover from him his father's castle before Palm - Sunday . The English knight deemed that he could not in honour leave the castle till ...
... received a defiance from Douglas , threatening , that , let him use his utmost vigilance , he would recover from him his father's castle before Palm - Sunday . The English knight deemed that he could not in honour leave the castle till ...
Pàgina 45
... received in the foreign countries which they visited in accomplishment of their challenge , with the highest deference and honour ; their arrival was considered as affording a subject of sport and jubilee to all ranks ; and when any ...
... received in the foreign countries which they visited in accomplishment of their challenge , with the highest deference and honour ; their arrival was considered as affording a subject of sport and jubilee to all ranks ; and when any ...
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Pàgina 349 - 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...
Pàgina 349 - 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 0, the very casques, That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Pàgina 356 - 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.
Pàgina 285 - 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.
Pàgina 367 - I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Pàgina 367 - 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.
Pàgina 288 - Afric of the other, and so many other under-kingdoms, that the player, when he comes in, must ever begin with telling where he is, or else the tale will not be conceived?
Pàgina 282 - 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.
Pàgina 288 - Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster, with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Pàgina 313 - 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.