Free thoughts upon Methodists, actors, and the influence of the stage; with an intr. letter upon the origin of the drama. By R. Mansel. Likewise a discourse on the lawfulness and unlawfulness of plays; by father Caffaro [translauthor and J. Craggs, 1814 - 286 страници |
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... mind . The placid fleeting hours , dedicated to a reciprocal exchange of thought , during " that happy age , when nature wears no mask , " serve to mark succeeding years of anxiety and pain with a most frightful chilling contrast ...
... mind . The placid fleeting hours , dedicated to a reciprocal exchange of thought , during " that happy age , when nature wears no mask , " serve to mark succeeding years of anxiety and pain with a most frightful chilling contrast ...
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... mind , I trust we have derived some satisfac- tion from the expedition . - We now come to the more delicate task of examining the qualifications of our accusers , and the justice of their accusations.You will perceive we have formidable ...
... mind , I trust we have derived some satisfac- tion from the expedition . - We now come to the more delicate task of examining the qualifications of our accusers , and the justice of their accusations.You will perceive we have formidable ...
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... mind , inert , feeble , and emasculated , were easily led captives , by ignorance , bigotry , and superstition.— What will add to our mortification is , the necessity we shall be under of being more minute and particular in our ...
... mind , inert , feeble , and emasculated , were easily led captives , by ignorance , bigotry , and superstition.— What will add to our mortification is , the necessity we shall be under of being more minute and particular in our ...
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... contempt and pity upon such puerilities.— If the mind is sincerely devout , the hands will follow in correspondent movements ; - nor will it ever be required at the throne of mercy , what was their previous occupation . 48.
... contempt and pity upon such puerilities.— If the mind is sincerely devout , the hands will follow in correspondent movements ; - nor will it ever be required at the throne of mercy , what was their previous occupation . 48.
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... mind , that you would pronounce yourself a convert to the stage , by a single perusal of Milton's preface to his Sampson Agonistes . " Tragedy , " says he , " as it was anciently composed , has been held the GREATEST MORALIST and most ...
... mind , that you would pronounce yourself a convert to the stage , by a single perusal of Milton's preface to his Sampson Agonistes . " Tragedy , " says he , " as it was anciently composed , has been held the GREATEST MORALIST and most ...
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Страница 146 - 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.
Страница 101 - 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.
Страница 65 - Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel : for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Страница 56 - 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.
Страница 161 - But why dost thou judge thy brother? Or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
Страница 199 - 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.
Страница 199 - Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, And I have found thee.
Страница 187 - For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Страница 181 - Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Страница 136 - ... that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us : For in him we live, and move and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets [have said, for we are also his offspring.