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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... Writers and performers , with a view , perhaps , to avoid the seeming impiety of addressing the Deity in that , which was but a representation , a fiction , have run into the other impiety of offering a feigned prayer to a feigned ...
... Writers and performers , with a view , perhaps , to avoid the seeming impiety of addressing the Deity in that , which was but a representation , a fiction , have run into the other impiety of offering a feigned prayer to a feigned ...
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... writer ) is an exact picture of human life . There we see our fellow - creatures placed in a variety of interest- ing situations , and speaking and acting as those situations would naturally lead them to do . In a well - written Tragedy ...
... writer ) is an exact picture of human life . There we see our fellow - creatures placed in a variety of interest- ing situations , and speaking and acting as those situations would naturally lead them to do . In a well - written Tragedy ...
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... writers against the Stage , whose work I have had occasion to mention in my former Discourses , says , that St. Paul , by these words , " intended to prohibit the plays , that were then in use ; " and that the word Kopos , 44 DISCOURSE ...
... writers against the Stage , whose work I have had occasion to mention in my former Discourses , says , that St. Paul , by these words , " intended to prohibit the plays , that were then in use ; " and that the word Kopos , 44 DISCOURSE ...
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... writer on ridicule , before quoted , offers these considerations to account for it : " extensive views , business , suf- ferings , compassion , might easily prevent it . " + But it is very certain , that Christ has mentioned laughter as ...
... writer on ridicule , before quoted , offers these considerations to account for it : " extensive views , business , suf- ferings , compassion , might easily prevent it . " + But it is very certain , that Christ has mentioned laughter as ...
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... most probable means of improving the Stage , the duties of the persons concerned in its several depart- ments . These are the Conductors , or as they are termed Managers , the Writers of Plays , the F 3 DISCOURSE IV. ...
... most probable means of improving the Stage , the duties of the persons concerned in its several depart- ments . These are the Conductors , or as they are termed Managers , the Writers of Plays , the F 3 DISCOURSE IV. ...
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