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 |
No interior do livro
Resultados 6-10 de 68
Página 27
... instance , wherein the Stage is highly presumptuous and censurable , is in at- tempting to know and exhibit the secrets of the invisible world . Angels , departed Spirits , the glories of Heaven , and the torments of Hell , have all ...
... instance , wherein the Stage is highly presumptuous and censurable , is in at- tempting to know and exhibit the secrets of the invisible world . Angels , departed Spirits , the glories of Heaven , and the torments of Hell , have all ...
Página 29
... instance of the profaneness of the Stage is in Prayers addressed to false objects , or in prayers addressed to the true God in an improper manner . What was before observed respecting the introduction of the name of God , seems to be ...
... instance of the profaneness of the Stage is in Prayers addressed to false objects , or in prayers addressed to the true God in an improper manner . What was before observed respecting the introduction of the name of God , seems to be ...
Página 31
... instances , wherein the Stage seems to have adopted some sort of false religion , as it were , of its own , and so to confuse the minds of its votaries , and lead them from the true God to lying fables . After these we may consider , II ...
... instances , wherein the Stage seems to have adopted some sort of false religion , as it were , of its own , and so to confuse the minds of its votaries , and lead them from the true God to lying fables . After these we may consider , II ...
Página 32
... instances , in which parents have had to deplore in their children the practice of those lessons , which , by taking them to the theatre to witness , they have themselves contributed to their learning . + 3. The consequences of ...
... instances , in which parents have had to deplore in their children the practice of those lessons , which , by taking them to the theatre to witness , they have themselves contributed to their learning . + 3. The consequences of ...
Página 34
... tend to diminish the horror and impiety of them to the human mind . One * Mrs. H. More's Preface to her Tragedies . Vol . ii . p . 16 . + Ditto , p . 21. Note N. instance , at least , is upon record of suicide 34 DISCOURSE II .
... tend to diminish the horror and impiety of them to the human mind . One * Mrs. H. More's Preface to her Tragedies . Vol . ii . p . 16 . + Ditto , p . 21. Note N. instance , at least , is upon record of suicide 34 DISCOURSE II .
Outras edições - Ver tudo
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 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
abuses amusement Angels appears audience Battle of Hexham blessed censure certainly character Christ Christian Comedy Conscious Lovers consider corrupt Cymbeline Dæmons daughter Deity Discourse Ditto Drama duty effect endeavour entertainment Essay evil excellent exhibited Fair Penitent father folly Garrick give happy hath heart heathen Heaven Hinxton holy honour human husband ideas impiety instances instruction JAMES PLUMPTRE Jane Shore JONAS HANWAY Julius Cæsar King King Lear Lady lesson likewise live Lord Lord Chamberlain Macbeth manner marriage mentioned mind moral nature never Note object observed opinion Oratorios passage passions performed persons piety pious play poet prayers principles profane profession reason religion religious rendered represented respect ridicule sacred says scene Scripture sentiments Sermon shew Siege of Damascus Songs soul speaking spirit Stage taste Theatre thee things thou thought Tragedy truth vice virtue Voltaire writer young