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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... Play of King Lear was performed ; and during the time that was in preparation , some friends took me to see a play in London . My love for the Drama was fixed from that time ; and while so rational and fascinating a source of amusement ...
... Play of King Lear was performed ; and during the time that was in preparation , some friends took me to see a play in London . My love for the Drama was fixed from that time ; and while so rational and fascinating a source of amusement ...
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... plays at Schools . The author of an admirable Essay on Education , * hath stated his objections at length ; and , indeed , as far as the subject had fallen under his observation , they appear to be well founded . With respect to the ...
... plays at Schools . The author of an admirable Essay on Education , * hath stated his objections at length ; and , indeed , as far as the subject had fallen under his observation , they appear to be well founded . With respect to the ...
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... play . For several years , I never entered a Theatre ; and it is only lately , when con- sidering the Stage in a moral and religious point of view , that I have again witnessed the representation of a few plays , and read a few more . A ...
... play . For several years , I never entered a Theatre ; and it is only lately , when con- sidering the Stage in a moral and religious point of view , that I have again witnessed the representation of a few plays , and read a few more . A ...
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... plays are not performed for a few weeks in the year , or every other year , or once in a few years , that there are companies of players travelling about to our principal fairs , and that these are visited by the inhabitants of the ...
... plays are not performed for a few weeks in the year , or every other year , or once in a few years , that there are companies of players travelling about to our principal fairs , and that these are visited by the inhabitants of the ...
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... player . The law , indeed , formerly affixed this title of infamy upon the player , but it was upon a race of men , certainly less respectable in themselves , and performing dramas more ex- ceptionable : and these performances are now ...
... player . The law , indeed , formerly affixed this title of infamy upon the player , but it was upon a race of men , certainly less respectable in themselves , and performing dramas more ex- ceptionable : and these performances are now ...
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Four Discourses on Subjects Relating to the Amusement of the Stage: Preached ... James Plumptre Visualização integral - 1809 |
Four Discourses on Subjects Relating to the Amusement of the Stage: Preached ... James Plumptre Visualização integral - 1809 |
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Página 140 - And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
Página 57 - Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
Página 126 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Página 52 - He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire: And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.
Página 47 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference ; thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Página 191 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Página 53 - Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow. Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers: Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
Página 104 - TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity, and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Página 135 - For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Página 140 - But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose and commanded that they which could swim, should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land, and the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.