 | Thomas Warton - 1774 - 654 pàgines
...Milton defcribes and characlerifes Chaucer, is the SQUIER'S TALE. The imagination of this ftory confifts in Arabian fiction engrafted on Gothic chivalry. Nor is this Arabian fiction purely the fport of arbitrary fancy : it is in great meafure founded on Arabian learning. Cambufcan, a king of... | |
 | 1832 - 534 pàgines
...Milton describes and characterises him, is found td on this rfdventure. The imagination of this •tory consists in Arabian fiction, engrafted on Gothic chivalry....fiction purely the sport of arbitrary fancy ; it is, in a great measure, founded on Arabian learning. The idea of a horse of brass took its rise from the mechanical... | |
 | 1842 - 732 pàgines
...Milton describe! and characterises him, ia foundid on tins adventure. The imagination of this ftory consists in Arabian fiction, engrafted on Gothic chivalry....fiction purely the sport of arbitrary fancy ; it is, in a neat measure, founded on Arabian learning. The idea of a, hone of brass took its rise from the mechanical... | |
 | 1865 - 606 pàgines
...characterises him, is founded on this adventure. The imagination of this story consists in Arabisn fiction, engrafted on Gothic chivalry. Nor is this Arabian fiction purely the sport of arbitrary fanny, it is, in a great measure, founded on Arabian teaming. The idea of a horse of brass took its... | |
 | 1867 - 568 pàgines
...Squire's Tale, the poem by which Milton describes and characterises him, is founded on this adventure. The imagination of this story consists in Arabian fiction, engrafted on Gothic chivalry. Nor is thU Arabian fiction purely the sport of arbitrary fancy, It is, in a great measure. founded on Arabian... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1870 - 1070 pàgines
...under the CANTEJUU sy TALI«. I bave here given the rcasoc, which is. my apology, in the text. tion purely the sport of arbitrary fancy : it is in great...the midst of the solemnity, the guests are alarmed with a miraculous and unexpected spectacle : the minstrells cease on a sudden, and all the assembly... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1870 - 1044 pàgines
...strain of poetry, and the poem by which Milton describes and characterises Chaucer, is the SQUIER'S TALE. The imagination of this story consists in Arabian...engrafted on Gothic chivalry. Nor is this Arabian fic1 There is an inn at Burford in Oxfordshire, which accommodated pilgrims on their road to Saint... | |
 | Arabian nights - 1874 - 800 pàgines
...Squire's Tale, the poem by which Milton dtscribes and characterises him, is founded on this adventure. The imagination of this story consists in Arabian...fiction purely the sport of arbitrary fancy. It is, in a great measure, founded on Arabian learning. The idea of a horse of brass took its rèe from the mechanical... | |
 | Arabian nights - 1874 - 792 pàgines
...Squire's Tale, the poem by which Milton describes and characterises him, is founded on this adventure. The imagination of this story consists in Arabian...engrafted on Gothic chivalry. Nor is this Arabian fiction paretr the sport of arbitrary fancy. It is, in a great measure, founded on Arabian learning. The idea... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1781 - 1040 pàgines
...given the reason, which is my apology, in the text. I WARTON'S HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY. 263 tion purely the sport of arbitrary fancy : it is in great...on Arabian learning. Cambuscan, a king of Tartary, cele. brates his birth-day festival in the hall of his palace at Sarra, with the most royal magnificence.... | |
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Tale. The imagination of this story consists in Arabian fiction engrafted on Gothic chivalry. Nor is this Arabian fiction purely the sport of arbitrary fancy : it is in great measure founded on Arabian learning. Cambuscan, a King of Tartary, celebrates... 
