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 страници |
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... comedy of the Provoked Husband , by Van- burgh and Cibber , which is still received with marked applause whenever it ... comedy in the English language ; we are indeed surprized to find so unexceptionable a comedy proceeding from two ...
... comedy of the Provoked Husband , by Van- burgh and Cibber , which is still received with marked applause whenever it ... comedy in the English language ; we are indeed surprized to find so unexceptionable a comedy proceeding from two ...
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... comedy , called Marcus Geminus , the Latin tragedy of Progne , and an English comedy on the story of Palamon and Arcite , all acted by the students of the Uni- The three parts of Henry VI . , called the Roses , Mer- chant of Venice ...
... comedy , called Marcus Geminus , the Latin tragedy of Progne , and an English comedy on the story of Palamon and Arcite , all acted by the students of the Uni- The three parts of Henry VI . , called the Roses , Mer- chant of Venice ...
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... comedy , called Alba , ( sufficiently indecent , ) a Latin play called Vertumnus , written by a learned Doctor in Divinity ; and the Ajax of Sophocles , also in Latin . It is fair to add that his Majesty was neither amused nor edified ...
... comedy , called Alba , ( sufficiently indecent , ) a Latin play called Vertumnus , written by a learned Doctor in Divinity ; and the Ajax of Sophocles , also in Latin . It is fair to add that his Majesty was neither amused nor edified ...
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... comedy , the end of which is to expose ab- surd peculiarities , and satirize the passing follies of the day . Euripides , in one of his tragedies , puts into the mouth of Bellerophon a panegyric * Potter's Archæologia Græca . Appendix ...
... comedy , the end of which is to expose ab- surd peculiarities , and satirize the passing follies of the day . Euripides , in one of his tragedies , puts into the mouth of Bellerophon a panegyric * Potter's Archæologia Græca . Appendix ...
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... comedy . Their authors were few ; the only ones who have come down to us are Plautus , whose genius was of the highest order ; Terence , who , with all his brilliant talent , was chiefly a translator of Menander ; and the doubtful ...
... comedy . Their authors were few ; the only ones who have come down to us are Plautus , whose genius was of the highest order ; Terence , who , with all his brilliant talent , was chiefly a translator of Menander ; and the doubtful ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
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Страница 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.
Страница 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?