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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... Play of King Lear was performed ; and during the time that was in preparation , some friends took me to see a play in London . My love for the Drama was fixed from that time ; and while so rational and fascinating a source of amusement ...
... Play of King Lear was performed ; and during the time that was in preparation , some friends took me to see a play in London . My love for the Drama was fixed from that time ; and while so rational and fascinating a source of amusement ...
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... plays at Schools . The author of an admirable Essay on Education , * hath stated his objections at length ; and , indeed , as far as the subject had fallen under his observation , they appear to be well founded . With respect to the ...
... plays at Schools . The author of an admirable Essay on Education , * hath stated his objections at length ; and , indeed , as far as the subject had fallen under his observation , they appear to be well founded . With respect to the ...
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... play . For several years , I never entered a Theatre ; and it is only lately , when con- sidering the Stage in a moral and religions point of view , that I have again witnessed the representation of a few plays , and read a few more . A ...
... play . For several years , I never entered a Theatre ; and it is only lately , when con- sidering the Stage in a moral and religions point of view , that I have again witnessed the representation of a few plays , and read a few more . A ...
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... plays are not performed for a few weeks in the year , or every other year , or once in a few years , that there are companies of players travelling about to our principal fairs , and that these are visited by the inhabitants of the ...
... plays are not performed for a few weeks in the year , or every other year , or once in a few years , that there are companies of players travelling about to our principal fairs , and that these are visited by the inhabitants of the ...
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... player . The law , indeed , formerly affixed this title of infamy upon the player , but it was upon a race of men , certainly less respectable in themselves , and performing dramas more ex- ceptionable and these performances are now ...
... player . The law , indeed , formerly affixed this title of infamy upon the player , but it was upon a race of men , certainly less respectable in themselves , and performing dramas more ex- ceptionable and these performances are now ...
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