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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... corruption and debauchery . " * My hearers " " Prologue to the Tragedy of King Charles the 1st . - Biographia Dramatica , vol . 1. p . vii . Styles on the Stage , p . 19 , quotation.- Spectator , No. 93. Witherspoon on the Stage , p ...
... corruption and debauchery . " * My hearers " " Prologue to the Tragedy of King Charles the 1st . - Biographia Dramatica , vol . 1. p . vii . Styles on the Stage , p . 19 , quotation.- Spectator , No. 93. Witherspoon on the Stage , p ...
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... corrupted , and that plays are not what they ought to be , and what they might be made ; while others , argu- ing from the constant abuse of the stage , and because it never hath been altogether reformed , ( at least as far as human ...
... corrupted , and that plays are not what they ought to be , and what they might be made ; while others , argu- ing from the constant abuse of the stage , and because it never hath been altogether reformed , ( at least as far as human ...
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... be said , since the Stage is * Witherspoon , p . 42 , also p . 47 . Note C. become so corrupt and dangerous , why not take the B 4 THE LAWFULNESS OF THE STAGE CONSIDERED . 17 thing not admitting it; and that theatrical re- ...
... be said , since the Stage is * Witherspoon , p . 42 , also p . 47 . Note C. become so corrupt and dangerous , why not take the B 4 THE LAWFULNESS OF THE STAGE CONSIDERED . 17 thing not admitting it; and that theatrical re- ...
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... corrupt and dangerous , why not take the safer way , and relinquish it entirely ? Would all persons acquiesce in this , then it might cer- tainly be done . But if people were so rightly disposed , as willingly to give up a corrupt Stage ...
... corrupt and dangerous , why not take the safer way , and relinquish it entirely ? Would all persons acquiesce in this , then it might cer- tainly be done . But if people were so rightly disposed , as willingly to give up a corrupt Stage ...
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... corrupt in their very nature , surely he would not have given this sanction to their instructive sayings ? + * Nor is it fair to object against the Stage , That it hath been abused to the worst of purposes . What gift of God , and which ...
... corrupt in their very nature , surely he would not have given this sanction to their instructive sayings ? + * Nor is it fair to object against the Stage , That it hath been abused to the worst of purposes . What gift of God , and which ...
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