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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... feel , & c . Alicia , in Jane Shore , says , And You , the brightest of the stars above , Ye saints , that once were women here below , Be witness of the truth , the holy friendship , Which here to this , my other self , I vow , If I ...
... feel , & c . Alicia , in Jane Shore , says , And You , the brightest of the stars above , Ye saints , that once were women here below , Be witness of the truth , the holy friendship , Which here to this , my other self , I vow , If I ...
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... feel no small degree of apprehension at entering upon this part of my subject , as I shall have to censure that , which hath given pleasure to so many persons from their earliest years , and to which habit hath reconciled them , perhaps ...
... feel no small degree of apprehension at entering upon this part of my subject , as I shall have to censure that , which hath given pleasure to so many persons from their earliest years , and to which habit hath reconciled them , perhaps ...
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... feel more inclined to agree in opinion with the author of " Observations on the effect , & c . " whose remarks are in reply to this very passage : " To me it appears , that in the present state of society , there is too little , not too ...
... feel more inclined to agree in opinion with the author of " Observations on the effect , & c . " whose remarks are in reply to this very passage : " To me it appears , that in the present state of society , there is too little , not too ...
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... feel pity for distress , and admiration for virtue — if we can teach their imaginations to dwell on the happiness of a tender and virtuous attachment , on the interesting feelings of the wife and of the mother , we shall awaken sorrows ...
... feel pity for distress , and admiration for virtue — if we can teach their imaginations to dwell on the happiness of a tender and virtuous attachment , on the interesting feelings of the wife and of the mother , we shall awaken sorrows ...
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... , And how can we feel our woes When we've lost the trouble of thinking ? If thus - a man can die Much bolder with brandy . * Davis's Life of Garrick , vol . i . ch . XV . So I drink off this bumper - and now I NOTE P. 173.
... , And how can we feel our woes When we've lost the trouble of thinking ? If thus - a man can die Much bolder with brandy . * Davis's Life of Garrick , vol . i . ch . XV . So I drink off this bumper - and now I NOTE P. 173.
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