 To teach the minuter decencies and inferior duties, to regulate the practice of daily conversation, to correct those depravities which are rather ridiculous than criminal, and remove those grievances which, if they produce no lasting calamities, impress...  The British Essayists: Tatler - Page xiv1823Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - English poetry - 1900 - 318 pages
...Queen, it was reprinted in the ' Spectator.' 1 5 To teach the minuter decencies and inferior duties, to regulate the practice of daily conversation, to...produce no lasting calamities, impress hourly vexation, 20 was first attempted by Casa in his book of ' Manners,' and Castiglione in his ' Courtier,' — two... | |
 | conte Baldassarre Castiglione - Courtesy - 1900 - 474 pages
...to the book when he says that its object is ' to teach the minuter decencies and ' inferiour duties, to regulate the practice of daily conversation, to...no lasting calamities, impress ' hourly vexation.' (Worhs, vii. 428.) This is true of Delia Casa's Galateo, but not of Castiglione's COURTIER. INTRO-... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 456 pages
...the Queen, it was reprinted in The Spectator1. 37 To teach the minuter decencies and inferior duties, to regulate the practice of daily conversation, to...Casa in his book of Manners*, and Castiglione in his Courtier9, two books yet 1 See Appendix L. seen [George I] with the genius of " See Appendix M. Great... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1909 - 562 pages
...by the queen, it was reprinted in The Spectator. To teach the minuter decencies and inferior duties, to regulate the practice of daily conversation, to...and remove those grievances which, if they produce 5 no lasting calamities, impress hourly vexation, was first attempted by Casa in his book of Manners,... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 210 pages
...Johnson ranks it, among those books which attempt 'to teach the minuter decencies and inferior duties, to regulate the practice of daily conversation, to...produce no lasting calamities, impress hourly vexation.' Prior's Solomon could not be better criticized than in the sentence which remarks on the importance... | |
 | Eugen Einenkel - English language - 1916 - 256 pages
...more wytte than an asse More, Utopia aus plumbeus quispiam, et cui non plus ingenii sit quam stipiti > Two books yet celebrated in Italy for purity and elegance, and which .... are neglected only because etc. Johns., Life of Addison > mod. A danger in its ultimate results... | |
 | Hermann Paul - Germanic literature - 1916 - 252 pages
...more wytte than an asse More, Utopia aus plumbeus quispiam, et cui non plus ingenii sit quam stipiti > Two books yet celebrated in Italy for purity and elegance, and which .... are neglected only because etc. Johns., Life of Addison > mod. A danger in its ultimate results... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - English literature - 1923 - 348 pages
...teach the minuter ' decencies and inferiour duties, to regulate the practice of daily con' versation, to correct those depravities which are rather ridiculous...produce ' no lasting calamities, impress hourly vexation '. (Works, vii. 428.) This is true of Delia Casa's Galateo, but not of Castiglione's COURTIER. 8 See... | |
 | Samuel Miller - Art, Modern - 1803 - 522 pages
...among the remarkable circumstances of the age. " To teach the minuter decencies and inferior duties; to regulate the practice of daily conversation ; to...first attempted by CASA, in his book of Manners, and by CASTIGLIONE, in his Courtier? two books yet celebrated in Italy for purity and elegance ; and which,... | |
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