 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1765 - 362 pages
...fairies belonging to it, and there was fcarce a " fhepherd to be met with who had not " feen a fpirit." _ WE are upon enchanted ground, my friend; and you are...you will find that the manners they paint, and the fuperftitions they adopt, are the more poetical for being Gothic. LETLETTER VII. "BUT nothing fhews... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Ethics - 1776 - 354 pages
...every large? " common had a circle of fairies belong»g o ing to it; and there was fcarce a ** fhepherd to be met with, who had not " feen a fpirit." WE are...you will find that the manners they paint, and the fuperjliticns they adopt, are the more poetical for being Gothic. LETBUT nothing mews the difference... | |
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 456 pages
...this fearful circle. The glympse, you have had of it, will help your imagination to conceive the rest. And without more • words you will readily apprehend...are not only more gallant, but, on a change of the scene, more sublime, more terrible, more alarming, than those of the classic fablers. In a word, you... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 408 pages
...fearful circle. , The glympse, you have had of it, will help your imagination to conceive the rest. And without more words you will readily apprehend that the fancies of our modern bards are JITTER not only more gallant, but, on a change of the scene, more sublime, more terrible, more alarming,... | |
 | Matteo Maria Boiardo - Italian poetry - 1812 - 352 pages
...fairies belonging to it — and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with, that had not seen a spirit !" The fancies of our modern bards are not only more gallant, but, on a change of the scene, more sublime, more terrible, more alarming, than those of the classic fablers. — In a word,... | |
 | George Wheelwright - 1875 - 98 pages
...without their alarming terrors, sometimes lead us through flowery forests.' — Ib. p. 6 1 of Diss. i.] ' Without more words you will readily apprehend that the fancies of our modern bards are not more gallant, but on a change of the scene, more sublime, more terrible, more alarming, than those... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 232 pages
...this fearful circle. The glympse, you have had of it, will help your imagination to conceive the rest. And without more words you will readily apprehend...are not only more gallant, but, on a change of the scene, more sublime, more terrible, more alarming, than those of the classic fables. In a word, you... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 216 pages
...this fearful circle. The glympse, you have had of it, will help your imagination to conce1ve the rest. And without more words you will readily apprehend...are not only more gallant, but, on a change of the scene, more sublime, more terrible, more alarming, than those of the classic fables. In a word, you... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 208 pages
...this fearful circle. The glympse, you have had of it, will help your imagination to conceive the rest. And without more words you will readily apprehend...are not only more gallant, but, on a change of the scene, more sublime, more terrible, more alarming, than those of the classic fables. In a word, you... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 478 pages
...witches in 'Macbeth.' And what are Virgil's myrtles, dropping blood, to Tasso's enchanted forest? . . . The fancies of our modern bards are not only more gallant, but . . . more sublime, more terrible, more alarming than those of the classic fables. In a word, you will... | |
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And without more words you will readily apprehend that the fancies of our modern bards are not only more gallant, but, on a change of the scene, more sublime, more terrible, more alarming than those of the classic fablers. In a word, you will find that... 
