The miscellaneous prose works of sir Walter Scott, Volum 6 |
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Pàgina 22
... frequently se- lected as the appropriate champions of the militant adventurers yet on earth . The knights used their names adjected to their own , as their insignia , watch- word , or signal for battle . Edward III . , fighting ...
... frequently se- lected as the appropriate champions of the militant adventurers yet on earth . The knights used their names adjected to their own , as their insignia , watch- word , or signal for battle . Edward III . , fighting ...
Pàgina 23
... frequently seen in their camp , which bark- ed furiously whenever the infidels approached it by night , and rendered such service to the Christian adventurers by its vigilance , that with one consent they named it " The Dog of Our Lady ...
... frequently seen in their camp , which bark- ed furiously whenever the infidels approached it by night , and rendered such service to the Christian adventurers by its vigilance , that with one consent they named it " The Dog of Our Lady ...
Pàgina 24
... second in force only to the religious zeal of its pro- fessors , and frequently predominating over it , was a devotion to the female sex , and particularly to her whom each knight selected as the chief object of his 24 ESSAY ON CHIVALRY .
... second in force only to the religious zeal of its pro- fessors , and frequently predominating over it , was a devotion to the female sex , and particularly to her whom each knight selected as the chief object of his 24 ESSAY ON CHIVALRY .
Pàgina 50
... frequently as revolting , from their naked grossness , as interesting from the lively pic- tures which they present of life and manners . Yet these were the chosen literary pastimes of the fair and the gay , during the times of Chivalry ...
... frequently as revolting , from their naked grossness , as interesting from the lively pic- tures which they present of life and manners . Yet these were the chosen literary pastimes of the fair and the gay , during the times of Chivalry ...
Pàgina 54
... frequent features in the histories of the age . The contests of the tournament and the pas d'- armes were undertaken merely in sport , and for thirst of honour . But the laws of the period afford- ed the adventurous knight other and ...
... frequent features in the histories of the age . The contests of the tournament and the pas d'- armes were undertaken merely in sport , and for thirst of honour . But the laws of the period afford- ed the adventurous knight other and ...
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Pàgina 405 - 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 405 - 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...
Pàgina 331 - 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 414 - 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 362 - 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.
Pàgina 332 - Now of time they are much more liberal; 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...
Pàgina 323 - 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 400 - Every Man out of his Humour," usurped that dictatorship, in the Literary Republic, which he so sturdily and invariably maintained, though long and hardily disputed.
Pàgina 427 - 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. 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 331 - 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?