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 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 60
עמוד v
... speaking , it is but justice to say , that , coming only once in three years , being got up chiefly out of school hours , and con- sisting of one of Shakspeare's Plays only , without a Farce , the chief objection to them seems to me to ...
... speaking , it is but justice to say , that , coming only once in three years , being got up chiefly out of school hours , and con- sisting of one of Shakspeare's Plays only , without a Farce , the chief objection to them seems to me to ...
עמוד vi
... speak it to my shame , interfered too much with what ought to have been the object of my studies . I say , to my shame , not because I think time worse employed in cultivating a taste for the English Drama , than in studying the Greek ...
... speak it to my shame , interfered too much with what ought to have been the object of my studies . I say , to my shame , not because I think time worse employed in cultivating a taste for the English Drama , than in studying the Greek ...
עמוד vii
... speaking of the blessings I enjoyed at that time , gratitude re-- quires that I should likewise mention the great advantages I derived from the friendship of the Gentleman who was then Tutor of Clare- Hall , THE REV . JOHN DUDLEY , and ...
... speaking of the blessings I enjoyed at that time , gratitude re-- quires that I should likewise mention the great advantages I derived from the friendship of the Gentleman who was then Tutor of Clare- Hall , THE REV . JOHN DUDLEY , and ...
עמוד x
... speak it in great measure to my shame at the same time ) to be particularly qualified for the office , from my former attachment to the Stage , and my subsequent attention to sacred sub- jects . The time which I formerly gave up to this ...
... speak it in great measure to my shame at the same time ) to be particularly qualified for the office , from my former attachment to the Stage , and my subsequent attention to sacred sub- jects . The time which I formerly gave up to this ...
עמוד 10
... in the Grecian Tragedy . Solomon and his Queen sometimes speak in assumed characters , and represent themselves in fictitious circumstances . They descend , as it were , from the throne ; and adopt , with the pastoral dress 10 DISCOURSE 1 .
... in the Grecian Tragedy . Solomon and his Queen sometimes speak in assumed characters , and represent themselves in fictitious circumstances . They descend , as it were , from the throne ; and adopt , with the pastoral dress 10 DISCOURSE 1 .
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