The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volum 6R. Cadell, 1834 |
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Pàgina 33
... usually the cause of the whimsical and extravagant vows of arms which we have subsequently to notice . To combat against extravagant odds , to fight amid the press of armed knights without some essential part of their armour , to do ...
... usually the cause of the whimsical and extravagant vows of arms which we have subsequently to notice . To combat against extravagant odds , to fight amid the press of armed knights without some essential part of their armour , to do ...
Pàgina 43
... usually formed and proclaimed . The tournaments were uniformly performed and frequented by the choicest and noblest youth in Europe , until the fatal accident of Henry II . , after which they fell gradually into disuse . It was in vain ...
... usually formed and proclaimed . The tournaments were uniformly performed and frequented by the choicest and noblest youth in Europe , until the fatal accident of Henry II . , after which they fell gradually into disuse . It was in vain ...
Pàgina 44
... usually regulated , or , in cases of a general combat , some rules were laid down to prevent too much slaughter . The regulations of Duke Theseus for the tournament in Athens , as narrated by Chaucer in the Knight's Tale , may give a ...
... usually regulated , or , in cases of a general combat , some rules were laid down to prevent too much slaughter . The regulations of Duke Theseus for the tournament in Athens , as narrated by Chaucer in the Knight's Tale , may give a ...
Pàgina 54
... quality . In some few instances , the institution was maintained in its purity , and the page , when leaving the family in which he was educated , usually obtained a commission . The last instance 54 ESSAY ON CHIVALRY .
... quality . In some few instances , the institution was maintained in its purity , and the page , when leaving the family in which he was educated , usually obtained a commission . The last instance 54 ESSAY ON CHIVALRY .
Pàgina 55
Walter Scott. educated , usually obtained a commission . The last instance we know , was that of a gentleman bred a page in the family of the Duchess of Buccleuch and Monmouth , who died during the reign of George III . , a general ...
Walter Scott. educated , usually obtained a commission . The last instance we know , was that of a gentleman bred a page in the family of the Duchess of Buccleuch and Monmouth , who died during the reign of George III . , a general ...
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Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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?
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...