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 էջ |
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... amusement to absorb his devotions , is a contemptible idiot , beneath reproof , and would disgrace correction.- This rule , like most of the objections furnished in the days of the fathers , against the stage , no longer applics . It is ...
... amusement to absorb his devotions , is a contemptible idiot , beneath reproof , and would disgrace correction.- This rule , like most of the objections furnished in the days of the fathers , against the stage , no longer applics . It is ...
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... Balaam gives them , that there is no enchantment in Jacob , nor divination in Israel , we may likewise add , there was no THEATRE among them , nothing of these 66 dangerous amusements to be met with : - This INNOCENT 62.
... Balaam gives them , that there is no enchantment in Jacob , nor divination in Israel , we may likewise add , there was no THEATRE among them , nothing of these 66 dangerous amusements to be met with : - This INNOCENT 62.
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Robert Mansel. dangerous amusements to be met with : - This INNOCENT and UNDEBAUCHED people took their recreations at home , and made their children their diversion ! " That the learned Bossuet should so ... amusements to be met with:- ...
Robert Mansel. dangerous amusements to be met with : - This INNOCENT and UNDEBAUCHED people took their recreations at home , and made their children their diversion ! " That the learned Bossuet should so ... amusements to be met with:- ...
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... amusements of this innocent and undebauched people * . * When I express myself thus about the ancient Jews , I do not mean the smallest irreverence to their great and holy men . - No - their characters are too exalted to be the subject ...
... amusements of this innocent and undebauched people * . * When I express myself thus about the ancient Jews , I do not mean the smallest irreverence to their great and holy men . - No - their characters are too exalted to be the subject ...
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... amusement in meeting with an attack upon the stage by a CHINESE- writer , with great pleasure and frankness I present it to our English assailants , and hope it will stimulate them to emulation . 66 Plays are fire - works of wit , to 70.
... amusement in meeting with an attack upon the stage by a CHINESE- writer , with great pleasure and frankness I present it to our English assailants , and hope it will stimulate them to emulation . 66 Plays are fire - works of wit , to 70.
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Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 199 - Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, And I have found thee.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.