The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Essays on chivalry, romance, and the dramaR.Cadell, 1834 |
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... ridicule the sacred union of mar- riage , or to term an infringement of its laws a com- pliance with the manners of the age . The German wife , once married , seldom endeavoured to form a second union , but continued , in honoured widow ...
... ridicule the sacred union of mar- riage , or to term an infringement of its laws a com- pliance with the manners of the age . The German wife , once married , seldom endeavoured to form a second union , but continued , in honoured widow ...
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... ridiculed by Lord Chesterfield , in one of the papers of The World . It is obvious that a usage , at once so ridiculous , and so detrimental to the peace and hap- piness of society , must give way , in proportion to the progress of ...
... ridiculed by Lord Chesterfield , in one of the papers of The World . It is obvious that a usage , at once so ridiculous , and so detrimental to the peace and hap- piness of society , must give way , in proportion to the progress of ...
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... ridicule . Many gallant gentlemen , therefore , remained esquires , either attached to the service of some prince or eminent nobleman , or frequently in a state of absolute independence , bringing their own vassals to the field , whom ...
... ridicule . Many gallant gentlemen , therefore , remained esquires , either attached to the service of some prince or eminent nobleman , or frequently in a state of absolute independence , bringing their own vassals to the field , whom ...
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... ridicule upon the order of knighthood , by admit- ting within " the temple of honour , " as it was the fashion of the times to call it , children , who could neither understand nor discharge the duties of the office to which they were ...
... ridicule upon the order of knighthood , by admit- ting within " the temple of honour , " as it was the fashion of the times to call it , children , who could neither understand nor discharge the duties of the office to which they were ...
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... ridiculed for this presumption , and called the knight with the square ensign . The circumstance of the encroachment plainly shows , that the distinction was not absolute- ly settled , nor have we found the ensign of the bannerets ...
... ridiculed for this presumption , and called the knight with the square ensign . The circumstance of the encroachment plainly shows , that the distinction was not absolute- ly settled , nor have we found the ensign of the bannerets ...
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Page 349 - 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' the receiving earth : — For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings; Carry them here and there ; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass...
Page 349 - 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 0, the very casques, That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Page 356 - 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.
Page 285 - 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.
Page 367 - 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.
Page 367 - 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.
Page 288 - 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?
Page 282 - But, besides these gross absurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion; so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained.
Page 288 - 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?
Page 313 - It is false that any representation is mistaken for reality, that any dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited.