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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... present undertaking may be said to recall my attention to subjects , which I now acknowledge to be wrong ; but this I do not consider as any privilege or indulgence , but rather as a duty ; and certainly , to a very considerable degree ...
... present undertaking may be said to recall my attention to subjects , which I now acknowledge to be wrong ; but this I do not consider as any privilege or indulgence , but rather as a duty ; and certainly , to a very considerable degree ...
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... present age cannot so well brook , and would not perhaps be so just and reasonable ; because it is very possible , they might be so framed , and governed by such rules , as not only to be in- nocently diverting , but instructing and ...
... present age cannot so well brook , and would not perhaps be so just and reasonable ; because it is very possible , they might be so framed , and governed by such rules , as not only to be in- nocently diverting , but instructing and ...
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... present discourse , to point out what are the particular corruptions of the Stage , that we may know what to reject ; and the ascertaining what are its faults , will point out the proper subjects for public representation . Nor let it ...
... present discourse , to point out what are the particular corruptions of the Stage , that we may know what to reject ; and the ascertaining what are its faults , will point out the proper subjects for public representation . Nor let it ...
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... present have heard , no doubt , the very justly celebrated speech upon Mercy , in one of the Plays of Shakspeare , where it is mentioned as " An attribute to GOD himself ; " and it is afterwards stated , that “ earthly power does then ...
... present have heard , no doubt , the very justly celebrated speech upon Mercy , in one of the Plays of Shakspeare , where it is mentioned as " An attribute to GOD himself ; " and it is afterwards stated , that “ earthly power does then ...
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... present case . The reform will leave us all the interest of striking incident and marked character , beautiful and instructive sen- timent , and pure and brilliant wit and humour , and all these set off by the graces of elocution , and ...
... present case . The reform will leave us all the interest of striking incident and marked character , beautiful and instructive sen- timent , and pure and brilliant wit and humour , and all these set off by the graces of elocution , and ...
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