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 64
עמוד 4
... Virtue , " — " A warm incentive to virtue , and powerful preservative against vice , " and " a perpetual source of the most noble and useful entertainment ; " - by others it hath been branded as " the School of Impiety , ' " the porch ...
... Virtue , " — " A warm incentive to virtue , and powerful preservative against vice , " and " a perpetual source of the most noble and useful entertainment ; " - by others it hath been branded as " the School of Impiety , ' " the porch ...
עמוד 6
... virtue . All reasonable advocates for the stage , indeed , allow , that it is greatly corrupted , and that plays are not what they ought to be , and what they might be made ; while others , argu- ing from the constant abuse of the stage ...
... virtue . All reasonable advocates for the stage , indeed , allow , that it is greatly corrupted , and that plays are not what they ought to be , and what they might be made ; while others , argu- ing from the constant abuse of the stage ...
עמוד 7
... virtue , and , with that , indirectly , if not directly , the cause of religion , then does it become our duty to separate the evil from the good , and to make it such as a christian may frequent . It may , however , be said , since the ...
... virtue , and , with that , indirectly , if not directly , the cause of religion , then does it become our duty to separate the evil from the good , and to make it such as a christian may frequent . It may , however , be said , since the ...
עמוד 25
... Virtues ; or , after the corruptions of popery , making their prayers to and putting their trust in Saints and Angels . † It is not improbable , but that an Act of Parliament , passed in the reign of King James the First , ( 3d year ...
... Virtues ; or , after the corruptions of popery , making their prayers to and putting their trust in Saints and Angels . † It is not improbable , but that an Act of Parliament , passed in the reign of King James the First , ( 3d year ...
עמוד 33
... virtue and piety are neglected and contemned . * 5. These are the common subjects of the lighter species of Dramas ; but they are to be found , likewise , to a considerable degree , in the more serious . " There runs " besides ( as it ...
... virtue and piety are neglected and contemned . * 5. These are the common subjects of the lighter species of Dramas ; but they are to be found , likewise , to a considerable degree , in the more serious . " There runs " besides ( as it ...
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