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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... seems to me to have been the dissipation which was introduced about the time of performance , and that very much by the friends and relatives of the boys being acces- sary to it : this , however , during the latter part of the time ...
... seems to me to have been the dissipation which was introduced about the time of performance , and that very much by the friends and relatives of the boys being acces- sary to it : this , however , during the latter part of the time ...
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... seem , indeed , to have concurred in ascribing the origin of the Drama to the Ode and Chorus , set to music , and performed in honour of the heathen God , Bacchus ; into which , first one , then two , and then more speakers were ...
... seem , indeed , to have concurred in ascribing the origin of the Drama to the Ode and Chorus , set to music , and performed in honour of the heathen God , Bacchus ; into which , first one , then two , and then more speakers were ...
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... seems to come much nearer to our idea of the modern , or rather of the ancient Drama . The Song of Solomon is now almost universally acknowledged to have been the Epithalamium , or marriage song , of that monarch , composed on the ...
... seems to come much nearer to our idea of the modern , or rather of the ancient Drama . The Song of Solomon is now almost universally acknowledged to have been the Epithalamium , or marriage song , of that monarch , composed on the ...
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... seems necessary to anticipate an objection , which may be made against the inquiry . . An attempt to reform the Stage is considered by the adversaries of it as chimerical and im- practicable ; and he , who shall attempt it , will be ...
... seems necessary to anticipate an objection , which may be made against the inquiry . . An attempt to reform the Stage is considered by the adversaries of it as chimerical and im- practicable ; and he , who shall attempt it , will be ...
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... seems intended to prevent only " the great abuse of the Holy Name of God , " and that they should not " speak or use the Holy Name of God , or of Jesus Christ , or of the Trinity , ( which are not to be spoken but with fear and ...
... seems intended to prevent only " the great abuse of the Holy Name of God , " and that they should not " speak or use the Holy Name of God , or of Jesus Christ , or of the Trinity , ( which are not to be spoken but with fear and ...
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