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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... wish of Your much obliged and devoted humble Servant , JAMES PLUMPTRE , CLARE - HALL , November 7 , 1808 . * See Dr. Hey , vol . ii . B. IV . Art . I. p . 213 . ON SUBJECTS RELATING TO THE AMUSEMENT OF THE STAGE . DEDICATION . XY.
... wish of Your much obliged and devoted humble Servant , JAMES PLUMPTRE , CLARE - HALL , November 7 , 1808 . * See Dr. Hey , vol . ii . B. IV . Art . I. p . 213 . ON SUBJECTS RELATING TO THE AMUSEMENT OF THE STAGE . DEDICATION . XY.
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... wish to carry it into effect ; were this but once to prevail in all parties concerned in it , the task were easy . What hath been done , shews what may be done , and gives us hope , that it will be attempted . The most probable means of ...
... wish to carry it into effect ; were this but once to prevail in all parties concerned in it , the task were easy . What hath been done , shews what may be done , and gives us hope , that it will be attempted . The most probable means of ...
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... wishes intimated from that autho- rity would , of itself , insure the rejection of every future composition contaminated with indecency , and the omission of every scene , passage , and expression , liable to similar objec- tion in any ...
... wishes intimated from that autho- rity would , of itself , insure the rejection of every future composition contaminated with indecency , and the omission of every scene , passage , and expression , liable to similar objec- tion in any ...
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... wish to see the Stage so modelled , as to unite entirely with the pulpit , and keep us in constant remembrance of the immortal glory of a life to come ! Thus our amusement might be sanctified , our time redeemed , and no moment of our ...
... wish to see the Stage so modelled , as to unite entirely with the pulpit , and keep us in constant remembrance of the immortal glory of a life to come ! Thus our amusement might be sanctified , our time redeemed , and no moment of our ...
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... wish some student in the higher parts of criticism , ( which include the emotions of the mind , ) would examine this mixture ; -one may see , that the comic makes the virtue so unaffected and unpretending , as greatly to heighten the ...
... wish some student in the higher parts of criticism , ( which include the emotions of the mind , ) would examine this mixture ; -one may see , that the comic makes the virtue so unaffected and unpretending , as greatly to heighten the ...
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