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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... consider the size and * Note B. The subject of the Middle Bachelors ' Prizes , recited in the Senate House , at the Commencement , this year , was , " Quan- quam Histrionis Artem miremur , quærendum tamen utrum Mores Hominum emendet ...
... consider the size and * Note B. The subject of the Middle Bachelors ' Prizes , recited in the Senate House , at the Commencement , this year , was , " Quan- quam Histrionis Artem miremur , quærendum tamen utrum Mores Hominum emendet ...
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... consider the farther influence of plays , from their being published and read in the closet , -it must be acknowledged as a matter of no trifling concern , whether their general and particular tendency be to promote vice or virtue . All ...
... consider the farther influence of plays , from their being published and read in the closet , -it must be acknowledged as a matter of no trifling concern , whether their general and particular tendency be to promote vice or virtue . All ...
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... consider , I. In the first place , whether the Stage be a thing lawful in itself ; II . Secondly , If it be not unlawful , what are the abuses of it ; and III . Thirdly , What are the most probable means of improvement . I. First , then ...
... consider , I. In the first place , whether the Stage be a thing lawful in itself ; II . Secondly , If it be not unlawful , what are the abuses of it ; and III . Thirdly , What are the most probable means of improvement . I. First , then ...
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... considers as the figure of the Jewish Church . There is certainly an interchange of dialogue . - The companions of the bride compose a kind of Chorus , which seems to bear some resemblance to that which after- wards obtained in the ...
... considers as the figure of the Jewish Church . There is certainly an interchange of dialogue . - The companions of the bride compose a kind of Chorus , which seems to bear some resemblance to that which after- wards obtained in the ...
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... consider those as the most valuable members of society , who administer to our worldly wants , the labourer , who tills the earth to supply us with food , the artisan , who constructs our habitations , and sup- plies us with the ...
... consider those as the most valuable members of society , who administer to our worldly wants , the labourer , who tills the earth to supply us with food , the artisan , who constructs our habitations , and sup- plies us with the ...
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