GodefridusE. Lumley, 1844 - Chivalry |
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... speak , whose dis- sertations were so full of eloquence and poetry , so accom- modated to the common sense of all , and to the sweetest harmony of nature , that each of them , like a book of He- rodotus , might have been offered under ...
... speak , whose dis- sertations were so full of eloquence and poetry , so accom- modated to the common sense of all , and to the sweetest harmony of nature , that each of them , like a book of He- rodotus , might have been offered under ...
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... speaking of the Attic Lysias , that what was Attic in Lysias was not his being slight and unadorned , but his exhibiting nothing dull or extravagant.3 So should we mark well that the chivalry of our knights did not consist in the hasty ...
... speaking of the Attic Lysias , that what was Attic in Lysias was not his being slight and unadorned , but his exhibiting nothing dull or extravagant.3 So should we mark well that the chivalry of our knights did not consist in the hasty ...
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... speaking picture , and a picture is silent poetry.4 Various forms and tones shall be here ; yet , it is hoped , without a breach of the sacred union and fellowship which belongs to all truth and excellence . The ancients observed , that ...
... speaking picture , and a picture is silent poetry.4 Various forms and tones shall be here ; yet , it is hoped , without a breach of the sacred union and fellowship which belongs to all truth and excellence . The ancients observed , that ...
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... Speak to them of history - they are concerned with dates and con- troversies , with speculations and political theories , with making out St. Dunstan to be a ventriloquist , and Alex- 66 ander the Great a commercial statesman ; they ...
... Speak to them of history - they are concerned with dates and con- troversies , with speculations and political theories , with making out St. Dunstan to be a ventriloquist , and Alex- 66 ander the Great a commercial statesman ; they ...
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... Speak again of romance - they offer their vapid interpre- tations of a poetical story : Roland is a prefect of the British frontier ; Arthur , the son of Uthyr Pendragon , is Arcturus or the great bear . The account of Æneas's descent ...
... Speak again of romance - they offer their vapid interpre- tations of a poetical story : Roland is a prefect of the British frontier ; Arthur , the son of Uthyr Pendragon , is Arcturus or the great bear . The account of Æneas's descent ...
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Page 273 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 237 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me ? If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity a while, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain. To tell my story.
Page 167 - Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolish'd the right arm Of his own country; — seldom since that day Has Spain had heroes. While Romance could charm, The world gave ground before her bright array; And therefore have his volumes done such harm, That all their glory, as a composition, Was dearly purchased by his land's perdition. I'm "at my old lunes...
Page 86 - I gave him the book, and he read— " Chivalry is only a name for that general spirit or state of mind which disposes men to generous and heroic actions, and keeps them conversant with all that is beautiful and sublime in the intellectual and moral world.
Page 30 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, , The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 141 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God...
Page 221 - The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach ; but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind.
Page 15 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 221 - ... the public esteem. If we read of some illustrious line so ancient that it has no beginning, so worthy that it ought to have no end, we sympathize in its various fortunes; nor can we blame the generous enthusiasm, or even the harmless vanity, of those who are allied to the honours of its name.
Page 115 - Ripples and glances on the confluent streams. A lovelier, purer light than that of day Rests on the hills, and oh ! how awfully, Into that deep and tranquil firmament, The summits of Auseva rise serene ! The watchman on the battlements partakes The stillness of the solemn hour ; he feels The silence of the earth ; the endless sound Of flowing water soothes him ; and the stars, Which in that brightest moonlight well nigh quench...