 | Books - 1763 - 556 pages
...pictures of each, if well taken, muft be equally entertaining. But he goes farther, and'inaintains, that the circumftances in which they differ, are clearly to the advantage of the Gothic Defigncrs. Had Homer feen the manners of the feudal ages, he makes no doubt but he would have preferred... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Ethics - 1776 - 354 pages
...into competition with the Iliad. So So far as the heroic and Gothic manners are the fame, the pictures of each, if well taken, muft be equally entertaining....you from this forgotten Chivalry to a more amufing fubject ; I mean, the Poetry we ftill read, tho' it was founded upon it. MUCH has been faid, and with... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Chivalry - 1776 - 358 pages
...competition with the Iliad. • So far as the heroic and Gothic manners are the fame, the pictures of each, if well taken, muft be equally entertaining....you from this forgotten Chivalry to a more amufing fubject ; I mean, the Poetry we ftill read, tho' it was founded upon it. MUCH has been faid, and with... | |
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 456 pages
...if well taken, must be equally entertaining. But I go further, and maintain that the circumstances, in which they differ, are clearly to the advantage of the Gothic designers. You see, my purpose is to lead you from this forgotten Chivalry to a more amusing subject... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 208 pages
...if well taken, must be equally entertaining. But I go further, and maintain that the circumstances, in which they differ, are clearly to the advantage of the Gothic designers." He adds that if Homer had seen feudal manners, he would certainly have preferred them.... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 208 pages
...if well taken, must be equally entertaining. But I go further, and maintain that the circumstances, in which they differ, are clearly to the advantage of the Gothic designers." He adds that if Homer had seen feudal manners, he would certainly have preferred them.... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 232 pages
...equally 1 Vol. II., page 71 (1807). entertaining. But I go further, and maintain that the circumstances, in which they differ, are clearly to the advantage of the Gothic designers." He adds that if Homer had seen feudal manners, he would certainly have preferred them.... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...if well taken, must be equally entertaining. But I go further, and maintain that the circumstances in which they differ are clearly to the advantage of the Gothic designers. You see my purpose is to lead you from this forgotten chivalry to a more amusing subject:... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...if well taken, must be equally entertaining. But I go further, and maintain that the circumstances in which they differ are clearly to the advantage of the Gothic designers. You see my purpose is to lead you from this forgotten chivalry to a more amusing subject:... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...if well taken, must be equally entertaining. But I go further, and maintain that the circumstances in which they differ are clearly to the advantage of the Gothic designers. You see my purpose is to lead you from this forgotten chivalry to a more amusing subject:... | |
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Liberata into competition with the Iliad. So far as the heroic and Gothic manners are the same, the pictures of each, if well taken, must be equally entertaining. But I go further, and maintain that the circumstances in which they differ are clearly to... 
