| Richard Hurd - 1911 - 190 sivua
...commerce of the ladies, in those knots and circles of the great, would operate so far on the sturdiest knights as to give birth to the attentions of gallantry....gallantry would take a refined turn, not only from the necessity there was of maintaining the strict forms of decorum, amidst a promiscuous conversation under... | |
| Richard Hurd - 1911 - 188 sivua
...commerce of the ladies, in those knots and circles of the great, would operate so far on the sturdiest knights as to give birth to the attentions of gallantry....gallantry would take a refined turn, not only from the necessity there was of maintaining the strict forms of decorum, amidst a promiscuous conversation under... | |
| John Milton - 1924 - 240 sivua
...truft thy honeft offer'd courtefie, Which oft is fooner found in lowly flieds With fmoaky rafters, then in tapftry Halls And Courts of Princes, where it firft was nam'd, And yet is moft pretended : In a place' Lefs warranted then this, or lefs fecure I cannot be, that I fhould fear to change it,... | |
| Thomas Warton - 2001 - 144 sivua
...revolution before the age of Milton, who tells us that Courtefy - - - is fooner found in lonely fheds With fmoaky rafters, than in tap'ftry halls And courts of princes, where it firft was nam'd, And yet is mod pretended. MASK. Further, The free commerce of the ladies, in thofe knots and circles of the great,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1763 - 652 sivua
...feen in courts and infenfibly prevail there, a predominant part in the character of thefe aiienblies. Further, the free commerce of the ladies, in thofe...circles of the Great, would operate fo far on the fturdieit knights as to give birth to the aitentions of gallantry. 4. It only remains to account for... | |
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