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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... turn his discourse , and accommodate it to the present occasion , for the purpose of exciting mirth or laughter , a wit ; but since such persons are very apt to abuse this faculty , and to deviate into buffoonery , scurrility , and ...
... turn his discourse , and accommodate it to the present occasion , for the purpose of exciting mirth or laughter , a wit ; but since such persons are very apt to abuse this faculty , and to deviate into buffoonery , scurrility , and ...
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... turn to rule , and guard against excess , lest that , which was intended for our good , should prove pernicious , lest " our table be made a snare to take ourselves withal , and the things that should be for our wealth , be unto us an ...
... turn to rule , and guard against excess , lest that , which was intended for our good , should prove pernicious , lest " our table be made a snare to take ourselves withal , and the things that should be for our wealth , be unto us an ...
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... turn ; a practice , which , as the great moralist of the last age most happily expressed it , " a witty man despises for its triteness and facility , and which a good man shudders at , on account of its impiety . " * " If we must be ...
... turn ; a practice , which , as the great moralist of the last age most happily expressed it , " a witty man despises for its triteness and facility , and which a good man shudders at , on account of its impiety . " * " If we must be ...
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... turns . In the hour of health and gaiety , applause may crown the Wit for his licentiousness ; but the season of sickness and the hour of death - would they were displayed upon the Stage , as they have too often been in real life ...
... turns . In the hour of health and gaiety , applause may crown the Wit for his licentiousness ; but the season of sickness and the hour of death - would they were displayed upon the Stage , as they have too often been in real life ...
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... turn to the profit of virtue , and to the love of excellence , those sentiments which must be excited by every faithful description of a hateful , odious , or ridiculous object . It is not by the magisterial decision of a philosopher or ...
... turn to the profit of virtue , and to the love of excellence , those sentiments which must be excited by every faithful description of a hateful , odious , or ridiculous object . It is not by the magisterial decision of a philosopher or ...
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