A defence of the stage, or An inquiry into the real qualities of theatrical entertainments, their scope and tendency. Being a reply to a sermon ... by the rev. dr. John B. Bennett |
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Sayfa 1
... learned , pious , and temperate discourse , almost entirely divested of sectarian prejudice , eloquently argued , dictat- ed , I have no doubt , by a sincere conviction of the truth of the doctrines it inculcates , and an earnest desire ...
... learned , pious , and temperate discourse , almost entirely divested of sectarian prejudice , eloquently argued , dictat- ed , I have no doubt , by a sincere conviction of the truth of the doctrines it inculcates , and an earnest desire ...
Sayfa 16
... learned divine says , " Whoever expects to find in the Scriptures a specific direction for every moral doubt that arises , looks for more than he will meet with . " There is no question that this is strictly true , but leading crimes ...
... learned divine says , " Whoever expects to find in the Scriptures a specific direction for every moral doubt that arises , looks for more than he will meet with . " There is no question that this is strictly true , but leading crimes ...
Sayfa 19
... learned of the apostles , who enforces the sacred truths of the Gospel , by quotations from the poet Aratus of Cilicia , t the * Moral and Political Philosophy , Book II . c . ix . " For in him we live , and move , and have our being ...
... learned of the apostles , who enforces the sacred truths of the Gospel , by quotations from the poet Aratus of Cilicia , t the * Moral and Political Philosophy , Book II . c . ix . " For in him we live , and move , and have our being ...
Sayfa 20
... learned , as to whether this line belongs to Menander or Euripides ; it is extant in the fragments of both writers , and in either case applies equally as a quotation from a dramatic poet . See Milton's Preface to Samson Agonistes ...
... learned , as to whether this line belongs to Menander or Euripides ; it is extant in the fragments of both writers , and in either case applies equally as a quotation from a dramatic poet . See Milton's Preface to Samson Agonistes ...
Sayfa 34
... 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 , as he slept during the greater part of the performances , and at the end , said he was ઃઃ ...
... 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 , as he slept during the greater part of the performances , and at the end , said he was ઃઃ ...
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Sayfa 156 - 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.
Sayfa 156 - 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.
Sayfa 85 - 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.
Sayfa 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.
Sayfa 155 - 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.
Sayfa 85 - 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...
Sayfa 153 - Not to-day, O Lord, O, not to-day, think not upon the fault My father made in compassing the crown ! I Richard's body have interred new ; And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears, Than from it issued forced drops of blood. Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay, Who twice...
Sayfa 18 - 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.
Sayfa 93 - 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.
Sayfa 86 - 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?