 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 sivua
...some amends, and being accepted • as a sort of apology, for the absurdity of the literal story. . Under this form the tales of fair,y kept their ground,...reigns, the ordinary entertainment of our princes. But reason in the end (assisted, however, by party and religious prejudices) drove them off the scene,... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1911 - 190 sivua
...accepted as a sort of apology, for the absurdity of the literal story. Under this form the tales of faery kept their ground, and even made their fortune at...reigns, the ordinary entertainment of our princes. But reason, in the end, (assisted however by party, and religious prejudices) 1 drove them off the scene,... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1911 - 196 sivua
...accepted as a sort of apology, for the absurdity of the literal story. Under this form the tales of faery kept their ground, and even made their fortune at...reigns, the ordinary entertainment of our princes. But reason, in the end, (assisted however by party, and religious prejudices) * drove them off the scene,... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 2001 - 144 sivua
...ed as a fort of apology, for the abfurdity of the literal ftory. Under this form the tales of faery kept their ground, and even made their fortune at...drove them off the fcene, and would endure thefe lying •wonders, neither i'n their own proper fhape, nor as mafked in figures. Henceforth, the tafte of... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - 2004 - 1160 sivua
...(1720-1808). See Hurd's Letters on Chivalry and Romance, ed. Edith J. Morley (1911), Letter XII, p. 154: 'Under this form the tales of fairy kept their ground, and even made their fortune at court . . . But reason, in the end . . . drove them ofif the scene, and would endure their lying wonders,... | |
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Under this form the tales of fairy kept their ground, and even made their fortune at court, where they became, for two or three reigns, the ordinary entertainment of our princes. But... 
