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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... object of my studies . I say , to my shame , not because I think time worse employed in cultivating a taste for the English Drama , than in studying the Greek and Roman Poets ; but , as the study of the classics was a duty I then owed ...
... object of my studies . I say , to my shame , not because I think time worse employed in cultivating a taste for the English Drama , than in studying the Greek and Roman Poets ; but , as the study of the classics was a duty I then owed ...
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... two of my friends , but they seemed to think , ( in which I did not acquiesce , ) that the subject had no connection with the studies and objects of the University . I sketched out my plan , and began viii DEDICATION .
... two of my friends , but they seemed to think , ( in which I did not acquiesce , ) that the subject had no connection with the studies and objects of the University . I sketched out my plan , and began viii DEDICATION .
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... object . I have not , therefore , scrupled to avail myself of the writings of others , whenever I found them to my purpose ; for I consider the taking another person's sentiments , and putting them into other , and perhaps inferior ...
... object . I have not , therefore , scrupled to avail myself of the writings of others , whenever I found them to my purpose ; for I consider the taking another person's sentiments , and putting them into other , and perhaps inferior ...
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... object against the Stage , That it hath been abused to the worst of purposes . What gift of God , and which of his institutions . have not been so ? Hath not even the holy worship appointed by himself been perverted to the exaltation of ...
... object against the Stage , That it hath been abused to the worst of purposes . What gift of God , and which of his institutions . have not been so ? Hath not even the holy worship appointed by himself been perverted to the exaltation of ...
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... 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 proceed to consider , what 1 d 23 a at I proposed as my second object 18 DISCOURSE I.
... 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 proceed to consider , what 1 d 23 a at I proposed as my second object 18 DISCOURSE I.
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