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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... called my at- tention to the subject of convivial Songs , the result of which has been sometime before the public ; and , for some years , I wholly abstained from the amusement of the Theatre . There have been - always , however ...
... called my at- tention to the subject of convivial Songs , the result of which has been sometime before the public ; and , for some years , I wholly abstained from the amusement of the Theatre . There have been - always , however ...
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... called off to more important concerns . Yet the subject has still occupied a place in my mind , and , whenever , in the course of my reading or recollection , I have met with any thing connected with it , I have noted it down , till my ...
... called off to more important concerns . Yet the subject has still occupied a place in my mind , and , whenever , in the course of my reading or recollection , I have met with any thing connected with it , I have noted it down , till my ...
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... called upon wholly to renounce the Stage ; that he is called upon to do his part , whatever may be in his power , to amend it , I certainly think ; but , were ' it necessary to renounce it for ever , I could bear , without regret , the ...
... called upon wholly to renounce the Stage ; that he is called upon to do his part , whatever may be in his power , to amend it , I certainly think ; but , were ' it necessary to renounce it for ever , I could bear , without regret , the ...
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... called by some , " A School of Virtue , " - " - " A warm incentive to virtue , and powerful preservative against vice , " and " a perpetual source of the most noble and useful entertainment ; " - by others it hath been branded as " the ...
... called by some , " A School of Virtue , " - " - " A warm incentive to virtue , and powerful preservative against vice , " and " a perpetual source of the most noble and useful entertainment ; " - by others it hath been branded as " the ...
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... called Oratorios , in these days . The author of The Key to the Old Testament observes , " This book may be considered as to its form , as a dramatical poem poem of the pastoral kind . There is a succession of time , and a change of ...
... called Oratorios , in these days . The author of The Key to the Old Testament observes , " This book may be considered as to its form , as a dramatical poem poem of the pastoral kind . There is a succession of time , and a change of ...
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