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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... never intended to be published , together with the use made of those papers , in considering them as a substitute for the second witness to the overt act , exhibited such a compound of wicked- ness and nonsense , as is hardly to be ...
... never intended to be published , together with the use made of those papers , in considering them as a substitute for the second witness to the overt act , exhibited such a compound of wicked- ness and nonsense , as is hardly to be ...
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... never contemplating the probability of reforming that which reason says should be abolished altogether . There are portions of life which men cannot and will not employ either in labour or in study . The mind and body both require ...
... never contemplating the probability of reforming that which reason says should be abolished altogether . There are portions of life which men cannot and will not employ either in labour or in study . The mind and body both require ...
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... Never , " says he , “ did any land produce dramatic writers at once so powerful and so little exceptionable , as were Eschylus , Sophocles , and Euripedes never were people more passionately attached to the Drama , than the Athenians ...
... Never , " says he , “ did any land produce dramatic writers at once so powerful and so little exceptionable , as were Eschylus , Sophocles , and Euripedes never were people more passionately attached to the Drama , than the Athenians ...
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... never to resume it . Her subsequent history is dark , and although the names of Thrasy- * Thucyd . Hist . of Pelop . War , Book VI . and commence- ment of Book VII . See Smith's Translation . bulus , Phocion , Chabrias , and Demosthenes ...
... never to resume it . Her subsequent history is dark , and although the names of Thrasy- * Thucyd . Hist . of Pelop . War , Book VI . and commence- ment of Book VII . See Smith's Translation . bulus , Phocion , Chabrias , and Demosthenes ...
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... never evinced the same decided partiality for the higher walks of tragedy and 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 ...
... never evinced the same decided partiality for the higher walks of tragedy and 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 ...
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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.
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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?