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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... never hath been altogether reformed , ( at least as far as human imperfection would allow , ) are for giving it up , as the safer part . One writer against the stage goes so far as to affirm , " on the most mature deliberation , that ...
... never hath been altogether reformed , ( at least as far as human imperfection would allow , ) are for giving it up , as the safer part . One writer against the stage goes so far as to affirm , " on the most mature deliberation , that ...
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... never been any attempt to point out a plausible way , how the stage may be brought into , and kept in such a state of regulation as to be consistent with the Christian character . None , so far as I have heard or seen , have been so ...
... never been any attempt to point out a plausible way , how the stage may be brought into , and kept in such a state of regulation as to be consistent with the Christian character . None , so far as I have heard or seen , have been so ...
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... never arrived . Let not this be done in the present case . The reform will leave us all the interest of striking incident and marked character , beautiful and instructive sen- timent , and pure and brilliant wit and humour , and all ...
... never arrived . Let not this be done in the present case . The reform will leave us all the interest of striking incident and marked character , beautiful and instructive sen- timent , and pure and brilliant wit and humour , and all ...
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... never go to a church , or any where else , where they might learn that which is good ; we are , perhaps , indebted to the good sentiments and good examples exhibited upon the stage , that those persons learn some good , and that men are ...
... never go to a church , or any where else , where they might learn that which is good ; we are , perhaps , indebted to the good sentiments and good examples exhibited upon the stage , that those persons learn some good , and that men are ...
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... never leave the moral sense : there must be some shock or surprize upon that , and such shock must be of a limited strength . - If an opposition * " As Ridicule belongs to the mind , we are obliged to speak by comparison or metaphor ...
... never leave the moral sense : there must be some shock or surprize upon that , and such shock must be of a limited strength . - If an opposition * " As Ridicule belongs to the mind , we are obliged to speak by comparison or metaphor ...
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