A Defence of the Drama: Containing Mansel's Free Thoughts, Extracts from the Most Celebrated Writers, and a Discourse on the Lawfulness & Unlawfulness of Plays, by the Celebrated Father CaffaroG. Champley, 1826 - 294 Seiten |
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... infamous and lewd . A player , for in- stance , acts there with the most shameful and naked gestures ; women , forgetting the modesty of their sex , dare do that on the stage , and in the view of all the world , which others would blush ...
... infamous and lewd . A player , for in- stance , acts there with the most shameful and naked gestures ; women , forgetting the modesty of their sex , dare do that on the stage , and in the view of all the world , which others would blush ...
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... infamous trade , and there , in a word , those prostitutes are commended , in the presence of those who ought to be ignorant of all those things . I say nothing ( adds this father ) of what ought to be buried in eternal silence , for ...
... infamous trade , and there , in a word , those prostitutes are commended , in the presence of those who ought to be ignorant of all those things . I say nothing ( adds this father ) of what ought to be buried in eternal silence , for ...
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... infamous practices there . We may also read something of that abominable custom of their appearing naked on the thea- tres in St. Chrysostom , St. Jerom , and St. Augustin . The first of these does not scruple comparing those of his ...
... infamous practices there . We may also read something of that abominable custom of their appearing naked on the thea- tres in St. Chrysostom , St. Jerom , and St. Augustin . The first of these does not scruple comparing those of his ...
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... infamous Heliogabalus was the author of some of them But lest But lest you should suppose that plays were much the same as they are now , and that it was only to dissuade the faithful from frequenting the stage , account of Cato , and ...
... infamous Heliogabalus was the author of some of them But lest But lest you should suppose that plays were much the same as they are now , and that it was only to dissuade the faithful from frequenting the stage , account of Cato , and ...
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... infamous verses in his presence ; * adding at his punishment this expression . " Thou hast plunged me often into the debauche- ries of the stage , and for once I will plunge thee into the depths of the sea . " You may easily perceive ...
... infamous verses in his presence ; * adding at his punishment this expression . " Thou hast plunged me often into the debauche- ries of the stage , and for once I will plunge thee into the depths of the sea . " You may easily perceive ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 76 - TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Seite 277 - For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
Seite 114 - Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
Seite 134 - And Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Seite 257 - But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Seite 198 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Seite 278 - Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded : yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Seite 277 - Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, And I have found thee.
Seite 185 - And the whole city was filled with confusion : and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.