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" What we have gotten by this revolution, you will say, is a great deal of good sense. What we have lost is a world of fine fabling; the illusion of which is so grateful to the charmed spirit that in spite of philosophy and fashion. "
Moral and political dialogues - Seite 346
von Richard Hurd - 1811
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University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Band 5

1917 - 502 Seiten
...eyes of the prophane from prying too nearly into his subject, he threw about it the mist of allegory. What we have gotten by this revolution, you will say,...lost, is a world of fine fabling; the illusion of whieh is so grateful to the cltarmtd Spirit, that, in spite of philosophy and fashion, Fairy Spenser...
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The Cambridge History of English Literature Volume X the Age of Johnson

588 Seiten
...after the first part of Joseph Warton's Essay, eight years after Thomas Warton on The Faerie Queene). What we have gotten by this revolution, you will say,...Charmed Spirit that in spite of philosophy and fashion faery Spenser still ranks highest among the Poets; I mean with all those who are either come of that...
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A History of Modern English Romanticism, Band 1

Harko Gerrit de Maar - 1924 - 266 Seiten
...nineteenth century towards the eighteenth: "What we have gotten by this revolution, it will be said, is a great deal of good sense. What we have lost,...spirit; that, in spite of philosophy and fashion, Faery Spenser still ranks highest among the Poets. I mean with all those that either come of that house,...
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Collected Essays of W. P. Ker

William Paton Ker - 1925 - 366 Seiten
...her will — To stoop with disenchanted wings to truth, as Sir John Denham somewhere expresses her present enforced state, not unhappily. What we have...sense. What we have lost is a world of fine fabling. It could not be put better than this, the difference between the two ages — Spenser and Pope. It...
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Collected Essays, Band 2

William Paton Ker - 1925 - 368 Seiten
...her will — To stoop with disenchanted wings to truth, as Sir Jolm Denham somewhere expresses her present enforced state, not unhappily. What we have...sense. What we have lost is a world of fine fabling. It could not be put better than this, the difference between the two ages — Spenser and Pope. It...
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The Cambridge history of English literature. 1. From the beginnings to the ...

Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1917 - 488 Seiten
...after the first part of Joseph Warton's Essay, eight years after Thomas Warton on The Faerie Queene). What we have gotten by this revolution, you will say,...Charmed Spirit that in spite of philosophy and fashion Faery Spenser still ranks highest among the Poets ; I mean with all those who are either come of that...
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A History of Modern Criticism 1750-1950: Volume 1, The Later Eighteenth Century

René Wellek - 1981 - 378 Seiten
...decline of imagination with the growth of civilization. "What we have gotten by this revolution ... is a great deal of good sense. . . . What we have lost, is a world of fine fabling." M Hurd somewhat nostalgically looks back into the poetical past, but he does not, and on his principles...
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A Literary History of England

Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 Seiten
...Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762) summed up the results and indicated a counter-change in remarking: "What we have gotten by this revolution, you will...sense. What we have lost, is a world of fine fabling." Few writers have acquired so much reputation in the field of criticism Hobbes a on so little bulk of...
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The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition

Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 Seiten
...outweighed the losses. For 'a great deal of good sense,' Bishop Hurd wrote in 176a, we have exchanged 'a world of fine fabling; the illusion of which is so grateful to the charmed Spirit. . ' " Thomas Warton maintained that the improvement of society in general is at the expense of poetry....
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A Critical History of English Literature: The Restoration to 1800, Band 3

David Daiches - 1979 - 336 Seiten
...merely useless and silly. One thinks of the conclusion of Bishop Kurd's Letters on Chivalry and Romance: "What we have gotten by this revolution, you will...sense. What we have lost is a world of fine fabling." But to Scott it was more than a world of fine fabling that was lost; it was a world of heroic ideals,...
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