Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the DramaR. Cadell, 1834 - 395 páginas |
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... natural , that it is quite unnecessary to multiply instances , or crowd our pages with the barbarous names of the nations by whom it has been adopted . In the general and abstract definition of Chivalry , whether as compri- sing a body ...
... natural , that it is quite unnecessary to multiply instances , or crowd our pages with the barbarous names of the nations by whom it has been adopted . In the general and abstract definition of Chivalry , whether as compri- sing a body ...
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... nature and spirit of the institution of chivalry falls first under our consideration . In every age and country valour is held in esteem , and the more rude the period and the place , the greater respect is paid to boldness of ...
... nature and spirit of the institution of chivalry falls first under our consideration . In every age and country valour is held in esteem , and the more rude the period and the place , the greater respect is paid to boldness of ...
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... nature . But as , in actual practice , every institution becomes deterio- rated and degraded , we have too much occasion to remark , that the devotion of the knights often degenerated into superstition , their love into licentiousness ...
... nature . But as , in actual practice , every institution becomes deterio- rated and degraded , we have too much occasion to remark , that the devotion of the knights often degenerated into superstition , their love into licentiousness ...
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... nature purely civil , but long before the time of the crusades , it had assumed the religious character we have described . The effect which this union of religious and mi- litary zeal was likely to produce in every other case , save ...
... nature purely civil , but long before the time of the crusades , it had assumed the religious character we have described . The effect which this union of religious and mi- litary zeal was likely to produce in every other case , save ...
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... nature of the zeal which was supposed to actuate a Christian knight . But it is needless to ransack works of fiction for this purpose . The real history of the Crusades , founded on the spirit of Chivalry , and on the restless and ...
... nature of the zeal which was supposed to actuate a Christian knight . But it is needless to ransack works of fiction for this purpose . The real history of the Crusades , founded on the spirit of Chivalry , and on the restless and ...
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Términos y frases comunes
acted action actors adventures Æschylus affection amusement ancient appear Aristophanes Aristotle arms audience battle betwixt Brantome called champion character Charlemagne Chorus circumstances classical combat comedy comic composition Corneille court critical degree dialogue display Drama England English Eschylus Euripides exist extravagant favour female fiction France French frequently Froissart genius Grecian hero honour horse imitation introduced King King Arthur knight knighthood lady lance language Lord manners metrical middle ages minstrels modern Molière moral nature noble origin pas d'armes passion peculiar pennon Perceforest performed period personages persons piece Plautus play plot poet poetry prince probably profession racter rank recited representation ridicule Romance romantic fiction rude rules Saint satire scene sentiment Shakspeare solemn Sophocles spectators spirit of Chivalry squire stage style supposed Susarion sword talent taste theatre theatrical Thespis tion tournament tragedy Tristrem unities valour youth
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Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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?
Página 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...