A Defence of the Stage: Or An Enquiry Into the Real Qualities of Theatrical Entertainments, Their Scope and Tendency. Being a Reply to a Sermon Entitled "The Evil of Theatrical Amusements Stated and Illustrated" ... by the Rev. Dr. John B. Bennett. Including an Examination of the Authorities on which that Sermon is FoundedMilliken and son, 1839 - 175 Seiten |
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... object in the present instance is to maintain what I believe to be a correct view of the subject , and in support of which I have produced many evidences : at the same time I am ready to alter my opinion when those evidences are set ...
... object in the present instance is to maintain what I believe to be a correct view of the subject , and in support of which I have produced many evidences : at the same time I am ready to alter my opinion when those evidences are set ...
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... object to or impugn . Let us fairly consider this opinion of one of the most distinguished preachers of the Gospel , and it amounts to this , the very nucleus of my argument ; that an institution , containing in itself the elements of ...
... object to or impugn . Let us fairly consider this opinion of one of the most distinguished preachers of the Gospel , and it amounts to this , the very nucleus of my argument ; that an institution , containing in itself the elements of ...
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... object to , either on the score of gross- ness of manner , or freedom of expression . Speak- ing of this play , an eminent divine , Dr. Blair , whom I shall have occasion to quote more than once , says : " It is perhaps , on the whole ...
... object to , either on the score of gross- ness of manner , or freedom of expression . Speak- ing of this play , an eminent divine , Dr. Blair , whom I shall have occasion to quote more than once , says : " It is perhaps , on the whole ...
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... objects , and to guard it from abuse . Few have deemed it neces- sary to subscribe to Plato's sentence of excommu- nication , but few have seen fit to leave the Theatre entirely to its own courses , without any supervisal on their parts ...
... objects , and to guard it from abuse . Few have deemed it neces- sary to subscribe to Plato's sentence of excommu- nication , but few have seen fit to leave the Theatre entirely to its own courses , without any supervisal on their parts ...
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... object of our pursuits or desires . If the Theatre was so thoroughly opposed to morals and religion , as the authorities which contend for its abo- lition declare , it would not only have been espe- cially forbidden by the laws of God ...
... object of our pursuits or desires . If the Theatre was so thoroughly opposed to morals and religion , as the authorities which contend for its abo- lition declare , it would not only have been espe- cially forbidden by the laws of God ...
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Seite 154 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Seite 8 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Seite 83 - Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one.
Seite 153 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be. Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign.
Seite 83 - Comedy will (I think) by nobody be blamed, and much less of the high and excellent Tragedy, that openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the ulcers that are covered with tissue...
Seite 154 - Pr'ythee, lead me in: There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny ; 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own.
Seite 14 - And they prayed, and said. Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, that he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.
Seite 36 - l vero condito in molli versi I più schivi, allettando, ha persuaso: Così all'egro fanciul porgiamo aspersi Di soave licor gli orli del vaso; Succhi amari ingannato intanto ei beve, E dall
Seite 91 - Opera the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpose, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, without more speculation than life requires or admits, to he productive of much evil.
Seite 84 - Physic (the best rampire to our often-assaulted bodies), being abused, teach poison, the most violent destroyer? Doth not knowledge of Law, whose end is to even and right all things, being abused, grow the crooked fosterer of horrible injuries?