 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 606 страници
...attention to spectacles in which the mind was concerned, and by H 2 1OO MYSTERIES, MORALITIES, creating a regard for other arts than those of bodily strength and savage valour." Mysteries are to be distinguished from Moralities; and Farces, and Sotties. Moralities are... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 страници
...people, by diverting the public attention to spectacles in which the mind was concerned, and by creating a regard for other arts than those of bodily strength and savage valour." I may add, that these representations were so far from being considered as indecent or profane,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 страници
...people, by diverting the public attention to spectacles in which the mind was concerned, and by creating a regard for other arts than those of bodily strength and savage valour." I may add, that these representations were so far from being considered as indecent or profane,... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1826 - 370 страници
...people, by diverting the public attention to spectacles in which the mind was concerned, and by creating a regard for other arts than those of bodily strength and savage valour." ART. VII. — Memoires du Marechal de Bassompierre, contenans I'Histoire de sa vie, et de... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 574 страници
...people, by diverting the publick attention to spectacles in which the mind was concerned, and by creating a regard for other arts than those of bodily strength and savage valour." I may add, that these representations were so far from being considered as indecent or profane,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 страници
...people, by diverting the public attention to spectacles in which the mind was concerned, and by creating a regard for other arts than those of bodily strength and savage valour." I may add, that these representations were so far from being considered as indecent or profane,... | |
 | James Walker (of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.) - 1824 - 196 страници
...religion, but also in softening their manners, at that time very gross and impure ; creating insensibly, a regard for other arts than those of bodily strength and savage valour. The earliest mention of the performance of mysteries in Newcastle upon Tyne, occurs in the... | |
 | James Walker - 1824 - 140 страници
...religion, but also in softening their manners, at that time very gross and impure ; creating insensibly, a regard for other arts than those of bodily strength and savage valour. The earliest mention of the performance of mysteries in Newcastle upon Tyne, occurs in the... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 536 страници
...people by diverting the public attention to spectacles in which the mind was concerned, and by creating a regard for other arts than those of bodily strength and savage valour." Mysteries are to be distinguished from Moralities, and Farces, and Softies. Moralities are... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1824 - 488 страници
...people, by diverting the public attention to spectacles in which the mind was concerned, and by creating a regard for other arts than those of bodily strength and savage valour, f In the manuscript register of saint Swithin's priory at Winchester, it is recorded, that... | |
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... games and the bloody contentions of the tournament, which had so long prevailed as the sole species of popular amusement. Rude, and even ridiculous as they were, they softened the manners of the people by diverting the public attention to spectacles... 
