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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... a writer and publisher of plays , What are my sentiments with respect to my own ? I , by no means , excul- pate them from the general censure . They are the productions of a writer more conversant with plays than with DEDICATION . xiii.
... a writer and publisher of plays , What are my sentiments with respect to my own ? I , by no means , excul- pate them from the general censure . They are the productions of a writer more conversant with plays than with DEDICATION . xiii.
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... sentiments , and putting them into other , and perhaps inferior language , for the purpose of passing them off for an author's own , to be not only unnecessary , but disingenuous . By adopting the sentiments of another , the person ...
... sentiments , and putting them into other , and perhaps inferior language , for the purpose of passing them off for an author's own , to be not only unnecessary , but disingenuous . By adopting the sentiments of another , the person ...
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... sentiments of the warmest gratitude and respect to you , my Dear Sir , for the kindness you have shewn me on this and other occasions ; and wishing you many years of health and happiness , not only on your own account , but that we , in ...
... sentiments of the warmest gratitude and respect to you , my Dear Sir , for the kindness you have shewn me on this and other occasions ; and wishing you many years of health and happiness , not only on your own account , but that we , in ...
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... sentiments . " * There is another of the sacred books , the Book of Job , which , though it cannot be considered as a regular Drama , yet certainly is written very much in the dramatic form , 66 as the parties are introduced speaking ...
... sentiments . " * There is another of the sacred books , the Book of Job , which , though it cannot be considered as a regular Drama , yet certainly is written very much in the dramatic form , 66 as the parties are introduced speaking ...
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... sentiments of Arch- bishop Tillotson , an author praised by some of the greatest adversaries of the Stage , for his * See a Paper on PATRONAGE , in the Orthodox Church- man's Magazine , vol . xiii . p . 174 , attributed to Dr. Hey ...
... sentiments of Arch- bishop Tillotson , an author praised by some of the greatest adversaries of the Stage , for his * See a Paper on PATRONAGE , in the Orthodox Church- man's Magazine , vol . xiii . p . 174 , attributed to Dr. Hey ...
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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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