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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... received insults and provocations , with a silence to be admired , and a forbearance under injuries to be envied . Two centuries endurance of calumny , give evident proofs of mental superiority on one side , and of imbecile persecution ...
... received insults and provocations , with a silence to be admired , and a forbearance under injuries to be envied . Two centuries endurance of calumny , give evident proofs of mental superiority on one side , and of imbecile persecution ...
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... be enabled to determine and judge how far they can be brought to assimilate with the condemnations of the present stage , or how far they can apply to the now existing draina , > It is a generally received opinion with the learned 35.
... be enabled to determine and judge how far they can be brought to assimilate with the condemnations of the present stage , or how far they can apply to the now existing draina , > It is a generally received opinion with the learned 35.
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... received opinion with the learned , that the Ludi and Spectacula of the Greeks and Romans , formed a great part of the solemn and public worship of their Gods , and were instituted on purpose to commemorate some signal benefit , or ...
... received opinion with the learned , that the Ludi and Spectacula of the Greeks and Romans , formed a great part of the solemn and public worship of their Gods , and were instituted on purpose to commemorate some signal benefit , or ...
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... to the public quiet and security — to the preservation and augmentation of the state . 9 The people therefore received easily , a religion , which , though false , gave them so little disturbance ; their theology , like their worship , 46.
... to the public quiet and security — to the preservation and augmentation of the state . 9 The people therefore received easily , a religion , which , though false , gave them so little disturbance ; their theology , like their worship , 46.
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... received assistance from Scipio Africanus , and Lelius . In short , Madam , , the names of these great writers change sides so very often , just to suit the views of the opposers or supporters of a stage , that it really puzzles a plain ...
... received assistance from Scipio Africanus , and Lelius . In short , Madam , , the names of these great writers change sides so very often , just to suit the views of the opposers or supporters of a stage , that it really puzzles a plain ...
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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.