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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... sup- posing we were not in possession of the autho- rities before cited for the origin of the Drama , * Witherspoon , p . 71 and 72 , the Stage , abstractedly considered , does not seem to THE LAWFULNESS OF THE STAGE CONSIDERED . 15.
... sup- posing we were not in possession of the autho- rities before cited for the origin of the Drama , * Witherspoon , p . 71 and 72 , the Stage , abstractedly considered , does not seem to THE LAWFULNESS OF THE STAGE CONSIDERED . 15.
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... seem to bear a character so decidedly different from preaching , from conversation , from reading pious and moral books and instructive history , and of setting a good example , to " let our light shine before men , " ( Matt . v . 16 ...
... seem to bear a character so decidedly different from preaching , from conversation , from reading pious and moral books and instructive history , and of setting a good example , to " let our light shine before men , " ( Matt . v . 16 ...
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