Hurd's Letters on Chivalry and Romance: With the Third Elizabethan DialogueH. Frowde, 1911 - 176 sivua |
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ADDISON admiration adventures ages antient APPENDIX ARBUTHNOT Ariosto barbarous Bishop books of chivalry Brewood called castle CERVANTES character charms CHAUCER Chivalry and Romance circumstances classic classic unity court critics Crusades D. G. HOGARTH Dialogues DIGBY E. V. LUCAS edition ELIZABETH enchantments entertainment epic extravagant fable Faery Queen Fairy fancy feudal fictions French gallantry genius Giant Gothic fictions Gothic manners Gothic Romance Hartlebury hath hero heroic and Gothic Homer honour Hurd Hurd's ideas Iliad imagination instance Introduction Italian poetry Italian poets Kenelworth King knights learned Letters on Chivalry Lord magic Majesty masques mind modern moral nature observe occasion old Romancers pagan passion poem poet poet's poetical poetry political Prince Arthur prodigies proper reader real genius reason representation reprinted Richard Hurd SHAKESPEAR shew Sir TOPAZ sort Spenser spirit story superstition suppose Tasso taste thing tion truth unity virtues Worcester writers
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Sivu 117 - The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass ; And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride : And if aught else great bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of turneys, and of trophies hung, Of forests, and enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear.
Sivu 53 - ... if he were taken once, then what shift, with biting, with clawing, with roaring, tossing, and tumbling, he would work to wind himself from them, and when he was loose, to shake his ears twice or thrice, with the blood and the slaver about his phisnomy, was a matter of goodly relief.
Sivu 111 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread, rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar.
Sivu 113 - There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it, the church-yards were all haunted, every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it, and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit.
Sivu 154 - What we have gotten by this revolution, you will say, is a great deal of good sense. What we have lost is a world of fine fabling; the illusion of which is so grateful to the charmed spirit that in spite of philosophy and fashion.
Sivu 169 - Albracca, as romances tell, The city of Gallaphrone, from thence to win The fairest of her sex Angelica, His daughter, sought by many prowest knights, Both Paynim, and the peers of Charlemain.
Sivu 112 - Thus pass'd the night so foul, till morning fair Came forth with pilgrim steps, in amice gray...
Sivu 13 - And then, for the more solemn fancies of witchcraft and incantation, the horrors of the Gothic were above measure striking and terrible. The mummeries of the pagan priests were childish, but the Gothic enchanters shook and alarmed all nature.
Sivu 150 - in whose gentle spright The pure well-head of Poesie did dwell," must, for aught I can see, be left to the admiration of a few lettered and curious men...
Sivu 90 - It hath been through all ages ever seen, That with the praise of arms and chivalry The prize of beauty still hath joined been, And that for reason's special privity ; For either doth on other much rely ; For he...