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 Notes |
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My love for the Drama certainly increased with my years , and , I must speak it to my shame , interfered too much with what ought to have been the object of my studies . I say , to my shame , not because I think time worse employed in ...
My love for the Drama certainly increased with my years , and , I must speak it to my shame , interfered too much with what ought to have been the object of my studies . I say , to my shame , not because I think time worse employed in ...
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I mentioned my idea to one or 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 { 1 University . I sketched out my plan , and Vili ...
I mentioned my idea to one or 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 { 1 University . I sketched out my plan , and Vili ...
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In the following Discourses instruction has been my only 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 ...
In the following Discourses instruction has been my only 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 ...
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... it fair to 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 ...
... it fair to 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 ...
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But I shall have occasion , in a future discourse , to speak farther on this subject ; and I should now proceed to consider , what RE 雪! I proposed as my second object of inquiry , namely 18 DISCOURSE I. 1.
But I shall have occasion , in a future discourse , to speak farther on this subject ; and I should now proceed to consider , what RE 雪! I proposed as my second object of inquiry , namely 18 DISCOURSE I. 1.
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| Título | 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 Notes |
| Autor | James Plumptre |
| Editor | F. Hodson, 1809 |
| Procedencia del original | Biblioteca Británica |
| Digitalizado | 31 Mar 2015 |
| Largo | 284 páginas |
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