Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the DramaR. Cadell, 1834 - 395 pàgines |
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Pàgina 22
... hand , the men , easily and early cloyed with indulgences , which soon lose their poignancy when the senses only are interested , become first indifferent , then harsh and brutal , to the unfortu- nate slaves of their pleasures . The ...
... hand , the men , easily and early cloyed with indulgences , which soon lose their poignancy when the senses only are interested , become first indifferent , then harsh and brutal , to the unfortu- nate slaves of their pleasures . The ...
Pàgina 23
... hands , and a moral union preceded the mere intercourse of the sexes . The marriages formed under these wise auspi- ces were , in general , happy and affectionate.- " Adultery , " says Tacitus , " was infrequent , and punished with the ...
... hands , and a moral union preceded the mere intercourse of the sexes . The marriages formed under these wise auspi- ces were , in general , happy and affectionate.- " Adultery , " says Tacitus , " was infrequent , and punished with the ...
Pàgina 26
... hand against her person . And such were the rights of a northern mater familias , that the divorce and a division of goods immediately took place between the husband and wife , although the violence of which Thordisa complained was ...
... hand against her person . And such were the rights of a northern mater familias , that the divorce and a division of goods immediately took place between the husband and wife , although the violence of which Thordisa complained was ...
Pàgina 32
... hands to serve her feet to move at her bidding - body and heart to accomplish loyally her commands ? And , having all these , can you doubt to adventure your- self in the service of any lady whatsoever ? " In these extracts are painted ...
... hands to serve her feet to move at her bidding - body and heart to accomplish loyally her commands ? And , having all these , can you doubt to adventure your- self in the service of any lady whatsoever ? " In these extracts are painted ...
Pàgina 37
... hand , that she would confer it on the man who should keep the perilous Castle of Douglas ( so it was called ) for a year and a day . The knight who undertook this dangerous task at her request , discharged his duty like a careful sol ...
... hand , that she would confer it on the man who should keep the perilous Castle of Douglas ( so it was called ) for a year and a day . The knight who undertook this dangerous task at her request , discharged his duty like a careful sol ...
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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...