Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the DramaR. Cadell, 1834 - 395 pàgines |
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Pàgina 7
... early period some of those peculiar habits and customs , which , brought by the Gothic conquerors into the provinces of the divided empire of Rome , subsisted and became ingrafted upon the institutions of Chivalry . Tacitus , for ...
... early period some of those peculiar habits and customs , which , brought by the Gothic conquerors into the provinces of the divided empire of Rome , subsisted and became ingrafted upon the institutions of Chivalry . Tacitus , for ...
Pàgina 15
... early Christians , they were prohibited from acquiescing , even by silence , in the rites of idolatry , although death should be the con- sequence of their interrupting them . In the fine romance of Huon of Bourdeaux , ' that champion ...
... early Christians , they were prohibited from acquiescing , even by silence , in the rites of idolatry , although death should be the con- sequence of their interrupting them . In the fine romance of Huon of Bourdeaux , ' that champion ...
Pàgina 22
... early youth . Wherever women have been considered as the early , willing , and accommodating slaves of the voluptuousness of the other sex , their character has become degraded , and they have sunk into domes- tic drudges and bondswomen ...
... early youth . Wherever women have been considered as the early , willing , and accommodating slaves of the voluptuousness of the other sex , their character has become degraded , and they have sunk into domes- tic drudges and bondswomen ...
Pàgina 33
... earliest instances of the use of the English language at the court of the Norman monarchs , is the distich painted in the shield of Edward III . under the figure of a white swan , being the device which that warlike monarch wore at a ...
... earliest instances of the use of the English language at the court of the Norman monarchs , is the distich painted in the shield of Edward III . under the figure of a white swan , being the device which that warlike monarch wore at a ...
Pàgina 49
... early period . The care of the mother , after the first years of early youth were past , was deemed too tender , and the indulgences of the paternal roof too effeminate , for the future aspirant to the honours of Chivalry . " Do you not ...
... early period . The care of the mother , after the first years of early youth were past , was deemed too tender , and the indulgences of the paternal roof too effeminate , for the future aspirant to the honours of Chivalry . " Do you not ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 341 - 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 348 - 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 277 - 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 341 - 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...
Pàgina 305 - 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 359 - 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 359 - 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 280 - 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 280 - 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 50 - 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 ? Where can he learn to vault, to ride, to fence, To move his body...