An Essay on DancingNelson & Phillips, 1849 - 132 עמודים This book is a typical example of mid-nineteenth-century anti-dance literature. Crane takes the position that the ancients, including the Greeks and Egyptians, danced only for religious purposes. The author additionally notes that dancing in the Bible was done by "maidens and women alone." Also typical of this type of literature, the author decries the religious ceremonies of the "savage and the semi-civilized" world of non-Christians, especially the customs of non-Europeans. Crane concludes that balls have a bad effect on health and are a waste of time. |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abinadab Alméh Bacchus balls Capital Punishment ceremony character children of Israel Christian city of David common dancing condemn cultivated dance of amusement DANCES OF PLEASURE dancing parties dancing-school daugh dress duties effeminacy ESSAY ON DANCING eternal evil excited fashionable dancers favour feasting female dancers festivals flutes folly fond frivolous Gibeah gods grace Greece Greece and Italy Greeks heart heathen heaven Hebrews Herod Herodias Hindoos honour influence intellect Israel Italy Jehovah king lascivious gestures Lord marriage measured movements measured step ment military dances mind mirth mode modern dance moral Obed-edom passions performed Phrygia Plato PLEASURE AND AMUSEMENT pleasure-dances practised procession professional dancing girls Pyrrhic dance rational conversation revellings Roman Rome sacred Scripture singing sion song soul sound temple term timbrels tion Uzzah vice war-dances whatsoever things wine wine-suppers witness word worship young lady youth
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 28 - Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to-day, who uncovered himself to-day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!
עמוד 112 - For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth ; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
עמוד 30 - They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance. They take the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the organ. They spend their days in wealth, And in a moment go down to the grave.