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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... 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 exceptionable passage from the pieces DEDICATION .
... 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 exceptionable passage from the pieces DEDICATION .
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... pieces performed ; at least to purify them according to the general opinions of the world ; for , notwithstanding this , much heathenism , and much sentiment contrary to Christianity , were still suffered to remain : it was here ...
... pieces performed ; at least to purify them according to the general opinions of the world ; for , notwithstanding this , much heathenism , and much sentiment contrary to Christianity , were still suffered to remain : it was here ...
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... piece of dramatic poetry ; that the several answers to Job's pleas make three distinct acts , Elihu's reply a fourth , the Deity concluding in the fifth , the historical parts at the beginning and the end are a kind of prologue and ...
... piece of dramatic poetry ; that the several answers to Job's pleas make three distinct acts , Elihu's reply a fourth , the Deity concluding in the fifth , the historical parts at the beginning and the end are a kind of prologue and ...
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... pieces , which ought to inculcate only pure morals , under religious sanctions , that all these sins will lie at his door . * Alas ! for many , who have been in this situation , now gone to their account . Let those , who survive , be ...
... pieces , which ought to inculcate only pure morals , under religious sanctions , that all these sins will lie at his door . * Alas ! for many , who have been in this situation , now gone to their account . Let those , who survive , be ...
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... pieces ) certainly entitles him to a hearing on the present occasion . In his Preface to the last mentioned work , he says : " Tragedy , as it was anciently composed , hath ever been held the gravest , moralest , and most profitable ...
... pieces ) certainly entitles him to a hearing on the present occasion . In his Preface to the last mentioned work , he says : " Tragedy , as it was anciently composed , hath ever been held the gravest , moralest , and most profitable ...
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