...poetry. Throughout Europe can be heard such comments about the difference between past and present as: 'What we have gotten by this revolution, you will...sense. What we have lost, is a world of fine fabling' (Richard Hurd, 1761); 'We lose taste, but we acquire thought' (Voltaire, 1775); 'Our time, the death...

...from the next century with a mixture of pride and ruefulness: 'What we have gotten by this revolution is a great deal of good sense. What we have lost is a world of fine fabling.' What were such 'ruly' critics to make of the unruly Shakespeare? Dryden's preparedness to admire him...

...from the next century with a mixture of pride and ruefulness: 'What we have gotten by this revolution is a great deal of good sense. What we have lost is a world of fine fabling.1 What were such 'ruly' critics to make of the unruly Shakespeare? Dryden's preparedness to...

...scholar Richard Hurd employs a similar phrase when discussing the rise of reason since Spenser's day. 'What we have gotten by this revolution, you will...sense. What we have lost is a world of fine fabling.'" At all events, one finds this awareness in Fontenelle, in Vico, in Montesquieu and elsewhere in the...

...allegorical "exorbitancy." Ruchard Hurd wrote in Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762), "What we have got by this revolution, you will say, is a great deal...sense. What we have lost, is a world of fine fabling." 61 For Ripa see the new edition edited by Piero Buscaroli, with a preface by Mario Praz (Milan: Editori...

...illusions" of "the age of chivalry" was Hurd's lament for the "revolution" away from gothic style: "What we have lost, is a world of fine fabling; the...illusion of which is so grateful to the charmed Spirit" (120). Gilpin's and Hurd's ambivalent elegies on English national character resound through Burke 's...

...her will, to ally herself with strict truth, if she would gain admittance into reasonable company. What we have gotten by this revolution, you will say,...Spirit; that, in spite of philosophy and fashion, Faery Spenser still ranks highest among the Poets; I mean with all those are either come of that house,...

...illusions" of "the age of chivalry" was Hurd's lament for the "revolution" away from English gothic style: "What we have lost, is a world of fine fabling; the...illusion of which is so grateful to the charmed Spirit" (12o). When I call English gothic a "myth," I do not mean that it lacks historical foundations in either...

...her will, to ally herself with strict truth, if she would gain admittance into reasonable company. What we have gotten by this revolution, you will say,...good sense. What we have lost, is a world of fine fabling.22 Fancy - the unacceptable fancy of romance - is here feminized, and Hurd oscillates between...

...den philosophischen Geist (»philosophy«) seiner Zeit: What we have gotten by this revolution [...], is a great deal of good sense. What we have lost, is a world of fine fabling [...].82 Die Beschäftigung mit der Poesie des mittelalterlichen Rittertums soll archaische Leidenschaften...