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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... writer and publisher of plays , What are my sentiments with respect to my own ? I , by no means , excul- pate them from the general censure . They are the productions of a writer more conversant with plays than with DEDICATION . xiii.
... writer and publisher of plays , What are my sentiments with respect to my own ? I , by no means , excul- pate them from the general censure . They are the productions of a writer more conversant with plays than with DEDICATION . xiii.
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... writer more conversant with plays than with human nature and the Christian Religion ; but , though they are such as I would not now send abroad into the world , I do not wonder that they are not better ; they contain some heathenism ...
... writer more conversant with plays than with human nature and the Christian Religion ; but , though they are such as I would not now send abroad into the world , I do not wonder that they are not better ; they contain some heathenism ...
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... writer against the stage goes so far as to affirm , " on the most mature deliberation , that the reason why there never was a well - regulated stage , is because it cannot be , the nature of the thing not admitting it ; and that ...
... writer against the stage goes so far as to affirm , " on the most mature deliberation , that the reason why there never was a well - regulated stage , is because it cannot be , the nature of the thing not admitting it ; and that ...
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... writer upon another subject , " supposing there were good reason for calling this but Theory , I must own that I should not be so much disturbed by it as some might be . A Theory is often only a set of observations and conclusions ...
... writer upon another subject , " supposing there were good reason for calling this but Theory , I must own that I should not be so much disturbed by it as some might be . A Theory is often only a set of observations and conclusions ...
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... , had some part in producing this effect ; for writers + , Note B. * Note A : 17 and performers on the Stage , in order to ABUSES AND USES OF THE STAGE POINTED OUT . 25 the more so where it is unseen and unsuspected, ...
... , had some part in producing this effect ; for writers + , Note B. * Note A : 17 and performers on the Stage , in order to ABUSES AND USES OF THE STAGE POINTED OUT . 25 the more so where it is unseen and unsuspected, ...
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