| Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 614 pages
...reveries orrefincments of falfe philofophy, a degree of fiiperftitionfufficientfortiiepurpofes *>f poetry, the adoption of the machineries of romance, and the frequency and improvements of allegoric exhibition in the popu!" fpeftacles. When the corruptions and impoftures... | |
| Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1781 - 620 pages
...revival and vernacular verfions of the claflics, the importation and tranflation of Italian novels, the vifionary reveries or refinements of falfe philofophy,...the machineries of romance, and the frequency and improvements of allegoric exhibition in the popular fpedlacles. When the corruptions and impoftures... | |
| Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1781 - 506 pages
...vernacular verfions of the claffics, the importation and tranflation of Italian novels, the vilionary reveries or refinements of falfe ' philofophy, a degree...the machineries of romance, and the frequency and improvements of allegoric exhibition in the popular fpeclaclcs. ' When the corruptions and impoftures... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1782 - 588 pages
...novels, the vifionary reveries or refinements of falfe philbfoi-uv a degree of fuperliition fiifficieat for the purpofes of poetry, the adoption of the machineries...romance, and the frequency and improvement) of allegoric exhibition in the popular fpeftacles. • When ihe corruptions and impoftures of popery were abclifhed,... | |
| Several Hands - 1782 - 586 pages
...vifionary reveries or refinements of lalle pbilofophy, a degree of fuperftition fufficient for the purposes of poetry, the adoption of the machineries of romance, and the frequency and improvements of allegoric exhibition in the popular fpectacles. * When the corruptions and impoftures... | |
| English poetry - 1792 - 724 pages
...characteriftic diftinftion may be chiefly referred to the following principles, which were fometimes blended, and fometimes had a fingle operation. The...improvement of allegoric exhibitions in the popular fpectacles. After the corruptions and impoftures of popery had been detected and expofed, and the treafures... | |
| 1792 - 530 pages
...philofophy ; a degree of fuperitition, fufficient for the purpoies of poetry ; the adoption of t'ie machineries of romance ; and the frequency and improvement of allegoric exhibitions in the popular fpectacles. After the corruptions and impoftures of popery had been detened and expofed, and the trealures... | |
| 1793 - 738 pages
...novels, the yifionary reveries or refinement» of falfe philofophy, a degree of fuperftition fufficlent for the purpofes of poetry, the adoption of the machineries of romance, and the frequency and improvements of allegoric exhibition in the popular fpe żlacles. " W'hen the corruptions and impoftu... | |
| Johann Christoph Adelung, Anthony Florian Madinger Willich - English language - 1798 - 200 pages
...fingle operation. The principles we fpeak of were the revival and vernacular verfions of the daffies ; the vifionary reveries or refinements of falfe philofophy...improvement of allegoric exhibitions in the popular fpectacles.' ' Many circumftances contributed to give a defcriptive, a picturefque, and figurative... | |
| History - 1800 - 620 pages
...vifionary reveries or refinements of falfe philofophy, a degree of fnperititionfufficientforthepurpofes of poetry, the adoption of the machineries of romance, and the frequency and improvements of allegoric exhibition in the popular fpeftacles. When the corruptions and impoftures... | |
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