The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Essays on chivalry, romance, and the dramaR.Cadell, 1834 |
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Pàgina 17
... whole energy against the Saracens.1 The history of these orders will be found in its proper place in this work ; but their existence is here noticed as illustrating our general proposition concerning the union of devotion and chivalry ...
... whole energy against the Saracens.1 The history of these orders will be found in its proper place in this work ; but their existence is here noticed as illustrating our general proposition concerning the union of devotion and chivalry ...
Pàgina 42
... whole turn of the narrative , is extremely gross . Yet it does not seem to have occurred to the author , a man of rank and fashion , that they were improper to be recited , either in the presence of the Prioress and her votaries , or in ...
... whole turn of the narrative , is extremely gross . Yet it does not seem to have occurred to the author , a man of rank and fashion , that they were improper to be recited , either in the presence of the Prioress and her votaries , or in ...
Pàgina 48
... whole to the improvement of society . Every man enters the world under the impression , that neither his strength , his wealth , his station , nor his wit , will excuse him from answering , 1 [ See No. 47 ; which paper is assigned by ...
... whole to the improvement of society . Every man enters the world under the impression , that neither his strength , his wealth , his station , nor his wit , will excuse him from answering , 1 [ See No. 47 ; which paper is assigned by ...
Pàgina 83
... whole heart , they desire . They were assured of a fair field , without fraud or advantage ; and it was pro- vided , that the shields used should not be covered with iron or steel . The French king was highly joyful of this gallant ...
... whole heart , they desire . They were assured of a fair field , without fraud or advantage ; and it was pro- vided , that the shields used should not be covered with iron or steel . The French king was highly joyful of this gallant ...
Pàgina 85
... whole was regarded as one of the most gallant enterprises which had been fulfilled for some time . Besides these dangerous amusements , the unset- tled and misruled state of things during the feudal times , found a gentle knight ...
... whole was regarded as one of the most gallant enterprises which had been fulfilled for some time . Besides these dangerous amusements , the unset- tled and misruled state of things during the feudal times , found a gentle knight ...
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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.