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 páginas |
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... honour of God , nothing contrary to the duties we òwe to mankind , and to the duties we owe to the ani- -mals placed under our care for our use , —if they be not of too expensive a nature , nor occupy too much of our time , but be ...
... honour of God , nothing contrary to the duties we òwe to mankind , and to the duties we owe to the ani- -mals placed under our care for our use , —if they be not of too expensive a nature , nor occupy too much of our time , but be ...
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... honour of the heathen God , Bacchus ; into which , first one , then two , and then more speakers were introduced , till , in a short time it arrived at the state in which we have it in the ancient Greek Tragedians ; and this was from ...
... honour of the heathen God , Bacchus ; into which , first one , then two , and then more speakers were introduced , till , in a short time it arrived at the state in which we have it in the ancient Greek Tragedians ; and this was from ...
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... honour is the very soul and spirit , and life - giving principle of the Drama , Honour is the religion of Tragedy . It is her moral and political law . Her dictates form its institutes . Fear and shame are the capital crimes in her code ...
... honour is the very soul and spirit , and life - giving principle of the Drama , Honour is the religion of Tragedy . It is her moral and political law . Her dictates form its institutes . Fear and shame are the capital crimes in her code ...
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... honour will wear a pleasing form , that beauty will smile to betray , and that wit will be em- ployed in opposition to virtue ; but it is on the Stage alone , that he will be a cool spectator of these abuses . In the world he must act ...
... honour will wear a pleasing form , that beauty will smile to betray , and that wit will be em- ployed in opposition to virtue ; but it is on the Stage alone , that he will be a cool spectator of these abuses . In the world he must act ...
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... honour of God is left to shift for itself . " When , in any nation , ( says an excellent writer ) we see offences against man punished with severity , and offences against God passed over in silence , depend upon it that nation is ...
... honour of God is left to shift for itself . " When , in any nation , ( says an excellent writer ) we see offences against man punished with severity , and offences against God passed over in silence , depend upon it that nation is ...
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Four Discourses on Subjects Relating to the Amusement of the Stage: Preached ... James Plumptre Visualização integral - 1809 |
Four Discourses on Subjects Relating to the Amusement of the Stage: Preached ... James Plumptre Visualização integral - 1809 |
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