Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the DramaOriginally issued as v 6 of Sir Walter Scott's Prose works, Edinburgh, 1834 Includes bibliographical references Essay on chivalry -- Essay on romance -- Essay on the drama. |
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... peculiar meaning given to the word in modern Europe , as applied to the order of knighthood , estab- lished in ... peculiar and imposing character . They were not merely respected on account of their wealth or military skill , but were ...
... peculiar meaning given to the word in modern Europe , as applied to the order of knighthood , estab- lished in ... peculiar and imposing character . They were not merely respected on account of their wealth or military skill , but were ...
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... peculiar for- mality and personal ceremonial , seems so very natural , that it is quite unnecessary to multiply instances , or crowd our pages with the bar- barous names of the nations by whom it has been adopted . In the general and ...
... peculiar for- mality and personal ceremonial , seems so very natural , that it is quite unnecessary to multiply instances , or crowd our pages with the bar- barous names of the nations by whom it has been adopted . In the general and ...
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... peculiar habits and customs , which , brought by the Gothic conquerors into the pro- vinces of the divided empire of Rome , subsisted and became ingrafted upon the institutions of Chivalry . Tacitus , for example , informs us , that ...
... peculiar habits and customs , which , brought by the Gothic conquerors into the pro- vinces of the divided empire of Rome , subsisted and became ingrafted upon the institutions of Chivalry . Tacitus , for example , informs us , that ...
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... peculiar characters , and the circumstances in which it differs so widely from the martial character as it existed , either among the ancient Greeks and Romans , or in other countries and nations . II . We will attempt a general ab ...
... peculiar characters , and the circumstances in which it differs so widely from the martial character as it existed , either among the ancient Greeks and Romans , or in other countries and nations . II . We will attempt a general ab ...
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... peculiar dan- gers which surrounded it , and the numbers who had fallen in previous attempts . It was after the conquest of the Holy Land that the union between temporal and spiritual chivalry ( for such was the term sometimes given to ...
... peculiar dan- gers which surrounded it , and the numbers who had fallen in previous attempts . It was after the conquest of the Holy Land that the union between temporal and spiritual chivalry ( for such was the term sometimes given to ...
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actors adventures Æschylus affected Amadis Amadis de Gaul amusement ancient appear arms audience battle beautiful betwixt Brantome called character Charlemagne chivalry circumstances comedy comic composition court criticism David Hume degree distinguished Drama Duke of Guise England English extravagant fancy favour feeling fiction France French Galaor genius Grecian hand hero Highlanders honour horse humour imagination interest introduced John Home King knight knighthood lady language Lisuarte Lord manners Masaniello minstrels modern Molière Molière's moral Naples nature never noble occasion original passion peculiar Perceforest perhaps person personages piece play poet poetry popular possessed present prince Prince of Conti profession prose rank received rendered resembling ridicule Romance romantic fiction satire says scene Scotland seems sentiment Shakspeare Sir John Cope Spanish species spectators spirit squire stage supposed Susarion sword talents Tartuffe taste theatre tion tragedy viceroy
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Page 272 - This opinion, which, perhaps, prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth: those that never heard of one another would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence, and some who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.
Page 274 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: An image was before mine eyes, There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 273 - What might this be ? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of. calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.
Page 206 - 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 168 - 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 meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villanous and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 183 - 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.
Page 183 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Page 273 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 274 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Page 207 - ... of drawing all things as far above the ordinary proportion of the stage, as that is beyond the common words and actions of human life...