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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... , which should avoid all interference with it , would be all that could be claimed from them in its behalf ; though at the same time , one should feel some degree of regret , to see a man of enlarged 76 DISCOURSE IV .
... , which should avoid all interference with it , would be all that could be claimed from them in its behalf ; though at the same time , one should feel some degree of regret , to see a man of enlarged 76 DISCOURSE IV .
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... feeling a degree of this regret in reading lately the memoirs of the admirable and estimable Sir William Jones . Some of his researches in Asia have incidentally served , in a very important manner , the cause of religion ; but did he ...
... feeling a degree of this regret in reading lately the memoirs of the admirable and estimable Sir William Jones . Some of his researches in Asia have incidentally served , in a very important manner , the cause of religion ; but did he ...
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... feels in the tragic Comedy more especially . " Richardson's Correspondence , vol . iv . p . 219 . DR . JOHNSON , whose virtue and piety , in the last century , did so much to amend the morals of his age , and will lend their aid , we ...
... feels in the tragic Comedy more especially . " Richardson's Correspondence , vol . iv . p . 219 . DR . JOHNSON , whose virtue and piety , in the last century , did so much to amend the morals of his age , and will lend their aid , we ...
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... feels . — Ridicule is , in this play , very useful in exposing censoriousness pretending to candour . " Ditto . he says ... feel a warm and affectionate piety ; and when it becomes sublime , it exalts the mind to heavenly con- ceptions ...
... feels . — Ridicule is , in this play , very useful in exposing censoriousness pretending to candour . " Ditto . he says ... feel a warm and affectionate piety ; and when it becomes sublime , it exalts the mind to heavenly con- ceptions ...
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... feel , & c . Alicia , in Jane Shore , says , And You , the brightest of the stars above , Ye saints , that once were women here below , Be witness of the truth , the holy friendship , Which here to this , my other self , I vow . If I ...
... feel , & c . Alicia , in Jane Shore , says , And You , the brightest of the stars above , Ye saints , that once were women here below , Be witness of the truth , the holy friendship , Which here to this , my other self , I vow . If I ...
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