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 37
עמוד 4
... corruption and debauchery . " * My hearers " " Prologue to the Tragedy of King Charles the 1st . - Biographia Dramatica , vol . 1. p . vii . Styles on the Stage , p . 19 , quotation.- Spectator , No. 93. Witherspoon on the Stage , p ...
... corruption and debauchery . " * My hearers " " Prologue to the Tragedy of King Charles the 1st . - Biographia Dramatica , vol . 1. p . vii . Styles on the Stage , p . 19 , quotation.- Spectator , No. 93. Witherspoon on the Stage , p ...
עמוד 7
... be said , since the Stage is * Witherspoon , p . 42 , also p . 47 . Note C. become so corrupt and dangerous , why not take the B 4 THE LAWFULNESS OF THE STAGE CONSIDERED . 17 thing not admitting it; and that theatrical re- ...
... be said , since the Stage is * Witherspoon , p . 42 , also p . 47 . Note C. become so corrupt and dangerous , why not take the B 4 THE LAWFULNESS OF THE STAGE CONSIDERED . 17 thing not admitting it; and that theatrical re- ...
עמוד 8
... corrupt and dangerous , why not take the safer way , and relinquish it entirely ? Would all persons acquiesce in this , then it might cer- tainly be done . But if people were so rightly disposed , as willingly to give up a corrupt Stage ...
... corrupt and dangerous , why not take the safer way , and relinquish it entirely ? Would all persons acquiesce in this , then it might cer- tainly be done . But if people were so rightly disposed , as willingly to give up a corrupt Stage ...
עמוד 13
... corrupt in their very nature , surely he would not have given this sanction to their instructive sayings ? + * Nor is it fair to object against the Stage , That it hath been abused to the worst of purposes . What gift of God , and which ...
... corrupt in their very nature , surely he would not have given this sanction to their instructive sayings ? + * Nor is it fair to object against the Stage , That it hath been abused to the worst of purposes . What gift of God , and which ...
עמוד 14
... corrupted , but by purging it from the corruptions which had obtained , and bringing it nearer to the standard of original purity . We are told by the author of the book of Ecclesiasticus , ( xxvii . 2. ) that , " As a nail sticketh ...
... corrupted , but by purging it from the corruptions which had obtained , and bringing it nearer to the standard of original purity . We are told by the author of the book of Ecclesiasticus , ( xxvii . 2. ) that , " As a nail sticketh ...
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