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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... virtues , and form a dazzling system of worldly morality , in direct contradiction to the spirit of that religion , whose characteristics are " charity , meekness , peaceableness , long - suffering , gentle- ness , forgiveness . " " The ...
... virtues , and form a dazzling system of worldly morality , in direct contradiction to the spirit of that religion , whose characteristics are " charity , meekness , peaceableness , long - suffering , gentle- ness , forgiveness . " " The ...
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... virtue , and going as it were to claim his reward from a Deity of infinite justice and goodness . † These are a few of the most prominent cir- cumstances wherein the Stage misleads and 66 communicates evil " to its votaries . More ...
... virtue , and going as it were to claim his reward from a Deity of infinite justice and goodness . † These are a few of the most prominent cir- cumstances wherein the Stage misleads and 66 communicates evil " to its votaries . More ...
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... virtue and to dis- countenance vice ; to shew the uncertainty of human greatness , the sudden turns of fate , " — or , as , perhaps , it is better expressed elsewhere , + Note Q. * By Bedford . the changes and chances of this mortal ...
... virtue and to dis- countenance vice ; to shew the uncertainty of human greatness , the sudden turns of fate , " — or , as , perhaps , it is better expressed elsewhere , + Note Q. * By Bedford . the changes and chances of this mortal ...
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... virtue triumphant in distress . Thus the young man becomes acquainted with the world in which he is to live ; he sees the effect of those passions which are his most dangerous enemies ; and he learns to shun the errors and vices which ...
... virtue triumphant in distress . Thus the young man becomes acquainted with the world in which he is to live ; he sees the effect of those passions which are his most dangerous enemies ; and he learns to shun the errors and vices which ...
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... virtue ; but it is on the - Stage alone , that he will be a cool spectator of these abuses . In the world he must act as well as think ; and there it is to be feared that he will no longer form an unprejudiced judgment beween pleasure ...
... virtue ; but it is on the - Stage alone , that he will be a cool spectator of these abuses . In the world he must act as well as think ; and there it is to be feared that he will no longer form an unprejudiced judgment beween pleasure ...
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