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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... performed in this place — or at least within the reach of its inhabitants - at this season , for many years past ; a new theatre hath been lately erected , in a situation still nearer to us than before , and some circumstances have ...
... performed in this place — or at least within the reach of its inhabitants - at this season , for many years past ; a new theatre hath been lately erected , in a situation still nearer to us than before , and some circumstances have ...
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... performed ) when we reflect , that there are regular theatres for a considerable part of the year in most large towns , and that there is scarcely a town of a few hundred inhabitants throughout the kingdom , ( and some villages , ) in ...
... performed ) when we reflect , that there are regular theatres for a considerable part of the year in most large towns , and that there is scarcely a town of a few hundred inhabitants throughout the kingdom , ( and some villages , ) in ...
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... performed in honour of the heathen God , Bacchus ; into which , first one , then two , and then more speakers were introduced , till , in a short time it arrived at the state in which we have it in the ancient Greek Tragedians ; and ...
... performed in honour of the heathen God , Bacchus ; into which , first one , then two , and then more speakers were introduced , till , in a short time it arrived at the state in which we have it in the ancient Greek Tragedians ; and ...
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... performed on that occasion , somewhat after the manner of our Cathedral Service , or of the Sacred Dramas , called Oratorios , in these days . The author of The Key to the Old Testament observes , " This book may be considered as to its ...
... performed on that occasion , somewhat after the manner of our Cathedral Service , or of the Sacred Dramas , called Oratorios , in these days . The author of The Key to the Old Testament observes , " This book may be considered as to its ...
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... performing dramas more ex- ceptionable : and these performances are now generally sanctioned by the same constituted authorities . But I shall have occasion , in a future discourse , to speak farther on this subject ; and I should now ...
... performing dramas more ex- ceptionable : and these performances are now generally sanctioned by the same constituted authorities . But I shall have occasion , in a future discourse , to speak farther on this subject ; and I should now ...
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