The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Essays on chivalry, romance, and the dramaR.Cadell, 1834 |
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... tion by the best of our poets , ancient and modern , from Milton to Thomas Campbell . But the present article respects the peculiar meaning given to the word in modern Europe , as applied to the order of knighthood , established in ...
... tion by the best of our poets , ancient and modern , from Milton to Thomas Campbell . But the present article respects the peculiar meaning given to the word in modern Europe , as applied to the order of knighthood , established in ...
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... tion of the chivalrous principle than the two pre- ceding causes . Of patriotism , considered as a dis- tinct predilection to the interests of one kingdom , we find comparatively few traces in the institutions of knighthood . But the ...
... tion of the chivalrous principle than the two pre- ceding causes . Of patriotism , considered as a dis- tinct predilection to the interests of one kingdom , we find comparatively few traces in the institutions of knighthood . But the ...
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... tion to the brink of extravagance , or even beyond it . Founded on principles so pure , the order of Chivalry could not , in the abstract at least , but occasion a pleasing , though a romantic develope- ment of the energies of human ...
... tion to the brink of extravagance , or even beyond it . Founded on principles so pure , the order of Chivalry could not , in the abstract at least , but occasion a pleasing , though a romantic develope- ment of the energies of human ...
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... tion . Nor did his concern with the venison end here ; he placed it on the table , waited during the banquet , and carved the ponderous dishes , when required or permitted to do so . Much grace and delicacy , it was supposed , might be ...
... tion . Nor did his concern with the venison end here ; he placed it on the table , waited during the banquet , and carved the ponderous dishes , when required or permitted to do so . Much grace and delicacy , it was supposed , might be ...
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... tion , simple and modest , and ought regularly to have been made of brown , or some other uniform and simple colour . This was not , however , essen❤ tial . The garment of Chaucer's squire was embroi- dered 64 ESSAY ON CHIVALRY . dant ...
... tion , simple and modest , and ought regularly to have been made of brown , or some other uniform and simple colour . This was not , however , essen❤ tial . The garment of Chaucer's squire was embroi- dered 64 ESSAY ON CHIVALRY . dant ...
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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.