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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... profession of a player . One thing , I must say , greatly to our credit , was the care which * DR . WILLIAM BARROW . + The year 1802 , after which MR . NEWCOME * retired from public life . * Richard , Esq . Son of the former . was taken ...
... profession of a player . One thing , I must say , greatly to our credit , was the care which * DR . WILLIAM BARROW . + The year 1802 , after which MR . NEWCOME * retired from public life . * Richard , Esq . Son of the former . was taken ...
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... profession to which the wisdom and kindness of my parents had intended me ; and , in the autumn of 1792 , I began to attend the Lectures of DR . HEY , then Norrisian Professor of Divinity ; a circumstance , which I consider to have been ...
... profession to which the wisdom and kindness of my parents had intended me ; and , in the autumn of 1792 , I began to attend the Lectures of DR . HEY , then Norrisian Professor of Divinity ; a circumstance , which I consider to have been ...
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... profession , began entirely to engross my thoughts ; and yielding to the prejudices of the world , I determined to relinquish in great measure the amusement of the Stage . In the year 1801 , I accordingly disposed of the greater part of ...
... profession , began entirely to engross my thoughts ; and yielding to the prejudices of the world , I determined to relinquish in great measure the amusement of the Stage . In the year 1801 , I accordingly disposed of the greater part of ...
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... profession , are stated in more places than one in the Discourses themselves ; and I conceive myself ( and I hope I + may be allowed to say so , without an imputation of vanity , as I speak it in great measure to my shame at the same ...
... profession , are stated in more places than one in the Discourses themselves ; and I conceive myself ( and I hope I + may be allowed to say so , without an imputation of vanity , as I speak it in great measure to my shame at the same ...
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... profession censured , and yet encouraged , by attending the representations of its professors , I confess there was a contradiction , in which I could not acquiesce , and which I did not then see through . Mr. Styles , in his Essay on ...
... profession censured , and yet encouraged , by attending the representations of its professors , I confess there was a contradiction , in which I could not acquiesce , and which I did not then see through . Mr. Styles , in his Essay on ...
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