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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... give you an adequate idea of the nature and design of the following work , I hope I shall be spared the imputation of egotism , if I enter somewhat at large into the history of my own mind , as far as regards my knowledge of the * Stage ...
... give you an adequate idea of the nature and design of the following work , I hope I shall be spared the imputation of egotism , if I enter somewhat at large into the history of my own mind , as far as regards my knowledge of the * Stage ...
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... gives me no satis- faction . While I have been thus free in censuring the compositions of others , it will , no doubt , be asked by those , who know that I have myself been a writer and publisher of plays , What are my sentiments with ...
... gives me no satis- faction . While I have been thus free in censuring the compositions of others , it will , no doubt , be asked by those , who know that I have myself been a writer and publisher of plays , What are my sentiments with ...
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... give it up without reluctance and without a murmur . But , if the evil attached to it be no part of its inherent quality , but arising merely from the abuse of it , and which it is in the power of its frequenters , and properly ...
... give it up without reluctance and without a murmur . But , if the evil attached to it be no part of its inherent quality , but arising merely from the abuse of it , and which it is in the power of its frequenters , and properly ...
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... give up a corrupt Stage , then they would be good enough to amend it . How , then , is it to be put down ? Is the magistrate to interfere to suppress it ? then may he as well , and more easily , interfere to amend it . The case is ...
... give up a corrupt Stage , then they would be good enough to amend it . How , then , is it to be put down ? Is the magistrate to interfere to suppress it ? then may he as well , and more easily , interfere to amend it . The case is ...
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... give up all merchandize ? No , let us put away the sin of it , and let our merchandize be " Holiness unto the Lord . " ( Isaiah xxiii . 18. Zach . xiv . 20 , 21. ) Let us be like the " merchantman seeking goodly pearls ; " let us seek ...
... give up all merchandize ? No , let us put away the sin of it , and let our merchandize be " Holiness unto the Lord . " ( Isaiah xxiii . 18. Zach . xiv . 20 , 21. ) Let us be like the " merchantman seeking goodly pearls ; " let us seek ...
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