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 Seiten |
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... Impiety , " - " the porch of hell , " the house of the devil , " -- and " the sink of corruption and debauchery . " * My hearers * Prologue to the Tragedy of King Charles the 1st . - Biographia Dramatica , vol . 1. p . vii . - Styles on ...
... Impiety , " - " the porch of hell , " the house of the devil , " -- and " the sink of corruption and debauchery . " * My hearers * Prologue to the Tragedy of King Charles the 1st . - Biographia Dramatica , vol . 1. p . vii . - Styles on ...
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... God hath thought proper to veil from our eyes , is , surely , great impiety ; and to represent the degraded and impious ideas of a corrupt * Note C. religion as if they were true , is to embody USES AND ABUSES OF THE STAGE POINTED out . 27.
... God hath thought proper to veil from our eyes , is , surely , great impiety ; and to represent the degraded and impious ideas of a corrupt * Note C. religion as if they were true , is to embody USES AND ABUSES OF THE STAGE POINTED out . 27.
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... 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 object , and thus making light of that awful and necessary duty . Many ...
... 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 object , and thus making light of that awful and necessary duty . Many ...
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... impiety ; and which cannot but tend to increase that indifference , or infidelity and scoffing , which have ever , more or less , pre- vailed in the world on this subject . † 6. Profane cursing and swearing have , in some measure , been ...
... impiety ; and which cannot but tend to increase that indifference , or infidelity and scoffing , which have ever , more or less , pre- vailed in the world on this subject . † 6. Profane cursing and swearing have , in some measure , been ...
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... to diminish the horror and impiety of them to the human mind . One * Mrs. H. More's Preface to her Tragedies . Vol . ii . p . 16 . + Ditto , p . 21. Note N. instance , at least , is upon record of suicide 34 DISCOURSE II .
... to diminish the horror and impiety of them to the human mind . One * Mrs. H. More's Preface to her Tragedies . Vol . ii . p . 16 . + Ditto , p . 21. Note N. instance , at least , is upon record of suicide 34 DISCOURSE II .
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