Four Discourses on Subjects Relating to the Amusement of the Stage: Preached at Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, on Sunday September 25, and Sunday October 2, 1808; with Copious Supplementary NotesF. Hodson, 1809 - 284 עמודים |
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עמוד xiii
... writer and publisher of plays , What are my sentiments with respect to my own ? I , by no means , excul- pate them from the general censure . They are the productions of a writer more conversant with plays than with DEDICATION . xiii.
... writer and publisher of plays , What are my sentiments with respect to my own ? I , by no means , excul- pate them from the general censure . They are the productions of a writer more conversant with plays than with DEDICATION . xiii.
עמוד xv
... means consider myself an exception to the general rule , I claim the privilege of retracting , * should I ever see occasion ; for I trust I should not think it any disgrace to find myself wiser to - morrow than I am to - day . With ...
... means consider myself an exception to the general rule , I claim the privilege of retracting , * should I ever see occasion ; for I trust I should not think it any disgrace to find myself wiser to - morrow than I am to - day . With ...
עמוד 8
... means of improvement . I. First , then , let us consider , whether the Stage be a thing lawful in itself . And here , at the very outset , an objection is thrown in our way , That " the Stage is the invention of the Devil , " and " owes ...
... means of improvement . I. First , then , let us consider , whether the Stage be a thing lawful in itself . And here , at the very outset , an objection is thrown in our way , That " the Stage is the invention of the Devil , " and " owes ...
עמוד 12
... mean by the general term Drama , yet thus much we certainly learn from it , that this form of writing was considered , by persons acting under divine direction , as admirably well adapted to convey moral and religious truths . And ...
... mean by the general term Drama , yet thus much we certainly learn from it , that this form of writing was considered , by persons acting under divine direction , as admirably well adapted to convey moral and religious truths . And ...
עמוד 13
... means necessarily so , and might be separated from it , leaving it , not only an innocent amusement , but a highly rational and pleasing source of in- struction . * It may be remarked , too , that St. Paul , ( Acts xvii . 28. ) in his ...
... means necessarily so , and might be separated from it , leaving it , not only an innocent amusement , but a highly rational and pleasing source of in- struction . * It may be remarked , too , that St. Paul , ( Acts xvii . 28. ) in his ...
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