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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... likewise requires it to be said , that as far as my own knowledge extends , I believe there never was an instance of any one of the actors performing afterwards upon a public Stage , much less of em- bracing the profession of a player ...
... likewise requires it to be said , that as far as my own knowledge extends , I believe there never was an instance of any one of the actors performing afterwards upon a public Stage , much less of em- bracing the profession of a player ...
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... likewise some idea of wishing to render it more proper for public representation . ( My love for the Drama certainly increased with my years , and , I must speak it to my shame , interfered too much with what ought to have been the ...
... likewise some idea of wishing to render it more proper for public representation . ( My love for the Drama certainly increased with my years , and , I must speak it to my shame , interfered too much with what ought to have been the ...
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... likewise mention the great advantages I derived from the friendship of the Gentleman who was then Tutor of Clare- Hall , THE REV . JOHN DUDLEY , and likewise of my greatly re- spected and lamented Friend and Private Tutor , the late REV ...
... likewise mention the great advantages I derived from the friendship of the Gentleman who was then Tutor of Clare- Hall , THE REV . JOHN DUDLEY , and likewise of my greatly re- spected and lamented Friend and Private Tutor , the late REV ...
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... likewise , in the article of dress , if it be used for the purposes of decent covering , of defence from the cold and from the heat , -if we do not , in superfluous ornaments , waste that , which might have been spared for those who ...
... likewise , in the article of dress , if it be used for the purposes of decent covering , of defence from the cold and from the heat , -if we do not , in superfluous ornaments , waste that , which might have been spared for those who ...
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... likewise , was at first attributed , by ignorance and fanaticism , to the art and contrivance of the devil . It hath been perverted by the devil , no doubt , to the worst of purposes , in spreading blasphemy , vice and immorality ...
... likewise , was at first attributed , by ignorance and fanaticism , to the art and contrivance of the devil . It hath been perverted by the devil , no doubt , to the worst of purposes , in spreading blasphemy , vice and immorality ...
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Four Discourses on Subjects Relating to the Amusement of the Stage: Preached ... James Plumptre Visualização integral - 1809 |
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