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 6-10 מתוך 29
עמוד 100
... honour , as if you was to partake of some heathen festival . You must consider , that all the laughter there is not only vain and foolish , but it is a laughter amongst devils , that you are upon profane ground , and hearing music in ...
... honour , as if you was to partake of some heathen festival . You must consider , that all the laughter there is not only vain and foolish , but it is a laughter amongst devils , that you are upon profane ground , and hearing music in ...
עמוד 104
... honour ; and ever mentioned Terence and Menander with great respect . AUGUSTUS found it easier to make himself sovereign of the world , than to write a good Tragedy : he began a play called Ajax , but could not finish it . BRUTUS , the ...
... honour ; and ever mentioned Terence and Menander with great respect . AUGUSTUS found it easier to make himself sovereign of the world , than to write a good Tragedy : he began a play called Ajax , but could not finish it . BRUTUS , the ...
עמוד 117
... honour to literature , and his Few plain Reasons for believing in Christ , are excellent . So is his Observer . The Wheel of Fortune , a highly interesting and popular Comedy , I consider as a good lesson on the forgiveness of injuries ...
... honour to literature , and his Few plain Reasons for believing in Christ , are excellent . So is his Observer . The Wheel of Fortune , a highly interesting and popular Comedy , I consider as a good lesson on the forgiveness of injuries ...
עמוד 138
... honour unassail'd . Yet the Spirit , at his first entrance , says , Before the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is , & c . Among'st the enthron'd Gods on sainted seats . 1. 217 . And then he runs into all the heathen ...
... honour unassail'd . Yet the Spirit , at his first entrance , says , Before the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is , & c . Among'st the enthron'd Gods on sainted seats . 1. 217 . And then he runs into all the heathen ...
עמוד 159
... daily . " J. p . 32. I wish to submit to the sober and serious consideration of those who pay , and those who suffer these extravagant honours to mere mortal sinful beings , whether their offence is not NOTE I - J . 159.
... daily . " J. p . 32. I wish to submit to the sober and serious consideration of those who pay , and those who suffer these extravagant honours to mere mortal sinful beings , whether their offence is not NOTE I - J . 159.
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abuses amusement Angels appears audience Battle of Hexham Bishop blessed censure certainly character Christ Christian Comedy Conscious Lovers consider corrupt Cymbeline Dæmons daughter Deity Discourse Ditto divine Drama duty Edition effect endeavour entertainment Essay evil excellent exhibited father Garrick give happy hath heart heathen Heaven Hinxton holy honour HUGH JAMES ROSE human husband ideas instances instruction JAMES PLUMPTRE Jane Shore Julius Cæsar King King Lear Lady lesson likewise live Lord Lord Chamberlain Macbeth manner marriage mentioned mind moral nature Note object observed opinion Oratorios passage passions performed persons piety pious play poet poetry prayers principles profane profession Psalm reason religion religious rendered represented respect ridicule sacred says scene Scripture sentiments Sermon shew Siege of Damascus Songs soul speaking spirit Stage Theatre thee things thou thought Tragedy truth vice virtue Voltaire writer young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 140 - And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
עמוד 57 - Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
עמוד 126 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
עמוד 52 - He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire: And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.
עמוד 47 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference ; thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
עמוד 191 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
עמוד 53 - Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow. Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers: Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
עמוד 104 - TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity, and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
עמוד 135 - For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
עמוד 140 - But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose and commanded that they which could swim, should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land, and the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.