The works of Richard Hurd, volume 3 (of 8)

I cannot but think, resumed he, that my situation at present must appear very ridiculous. I am forced into an _apology_ for my own conduct, in a very nice affair, which it might...

I must take leave to remind you of the sage reply that was made to it. It was, you know, by an old soldier, who found himself exactly in my situation. The purse, which he had lo...

I went, as you said, to _France_; where, instead of the churlish humour of a malcontent, or the unmanly dejection of a disgraced exile, I appeared with an ease and gaiety of min...

Here Dr. ARBUTHNOT could not contain himself; and the castle happening at that time, from the point where they stood, to present the most superb prospect, “Look there, said he,...

Your fears are too hasty. This was still a trial of my wit: and after a few wanton circles, as it were to breathe and exercise my muse, I drew her in from these amusements to a...

The passion for LETTERS was extreme. The novelty of these studies, the artifices that had been used to keep men from them, their apparent uses, and, perhaps, some confused notio...

And such appears to have been the condition of our language in the age of ELIZABETH. It was pure, strong, and perspicuous, without affectation. At the same time, the high figura...

She touch’d him with her harp, and rais’d him from the ground; The shaken strings melodiously resound. Art thou return’d at last, said she, To this forsaken place and me? Thou p...

It was so; and for this good service, I let them pass without any harsher reflection. Though the true secret is, perhaps, no more than this: Their main object was the church, of...

The same thing cannot be said of the other instance, I mean the _fruits of tenure_, to which the lay-fees were subjected by this system. For however reasonable, or rather necess...

The imperial law, to this day, obtains altogether in the courts of admiralty, in courts marescall, and in the universities[149]. On the contrary, in what we call the courts of l...

2. It being now apprehended what _persons_ are most fit to be shewn in Dialogue, the next inquiry will be, concerning their _style or manner of expression_. And this, in general...

So that, unless these prejudices are corrected by the knowledge of our constitutional history, there is constant reason to apprehend, not only that the royal authority may stret...

I see it, Dr. ARBUTHNOT said, in a different light; and so did our princes themselves, who could not but be well acquainted with the proper effects of that interest. They consid...

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[31] This Dialogue is founded on a short passage in Mr. SPRAT’S Life of Mr. COWLEY, in which he observes, “That in his long dependence on my Lord St. ALBANS, there never happene...

Your lordship does not imagine that I am about to excuse myself from closing with them, even on their own terms. I intended that question only as a reproach to the persons we ha...

“Music and poetry are his delight. Therefore I’ll have _Italian_ masques by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing shows; And in the day, when he shall walk abroad, Like...

[123] MATTHEW PARIS gives us the following account of this matter—“Episcopatus et Abbatias omnes, quæ baronias tenebant, et eatenus ab omni servitute sæculari libertatem habuera...