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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... thing , I recol- lect my love for the Sacred Writings and for English Poetry ; but I never took much , I may almost say any , delight in the usual routine of a classical education . I remember the interest and the fulness of heart ...
... thing , I recol- lect my love for the Sacred Writings and for English Poetry ; but I never took much , I may almost say any , delight in the usual routine of a classical education . I remember the interest and the fulness of heart ...
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... 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 to expunge every ...
... 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 to expunge every ...
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... thing connected with it , I have noted it down , till my materials have accumulated to a considerable extent . Some circumstances occurred , during the last year , at Cambridge , to bring the subject of the Stage into frequent con ...
... thing connected with it , I have noted it down , till my materials have accumulated to a considerable extent . Some circumstances occurred , during the last year , at Cambridge , to bring the subject of the Stage into frequent con ...
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... things , " Jerem . xvii . 9. ) i do not think that there ever was a time , in which I should not have acquiesced , had the Stage been represented to me in the light in which it is here set forth ; and I could have given it up in its cor ...
... things , " Jerem . xvii . 9. ) i do not think that there ever was a time , in which I should not have acquiesced , had the Stage been represented to me in the light in which it is here set forth ; and I could have given it up in its cor ...
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... thing to its claims - but the Theatre . " ( Ditto , Note . ) It will be found , from the following Discourses , that I do not conceive the Christian to be called upon wholly to renounce the Stage ; that he is called upon to do his part ...
... thing to its claims - but the Theatre . " ( Ditto , Note . ) It will be found , from the following Discourses , that I do not conceive the Christian to be called upon wholly to renounce the Stage ; that he is called upon to do his part ...
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