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 páginas |
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... admiration of the arts , they would term profane ; your taste in poetry and painting , heathen ; your skill in music , useless ; your partiality to the drama , impious ; and your modest christian demeanour , faint - hearted , luke ...
... admiration of the arts , they would term profane ; your taste in poetry and painting , heathen ; your skill in music , useless ; your partiality to the drama , impious ; and your modest christian demeanour , faint - hearted , luke ...
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... admiration- -Athens and Rome . We shall converse , for a short time , with several of your most intimate acquain- tance ; but they will not , as usual , com- mand that attention , respect , and delight which you have ever considered as ...
... admiration- -Athens and Rome . We shall converse , for a short time , with several of your most intimate acquain- tance ; but they will not , as usual , com- mand that attention , respect , and delight which you have ever considered as ...
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... admired , and a forbearance under injuries to be envied . Two cen- turies endurance of calumny , give evident proofs of mental superiority on one side , and of imbecile persecution on the other . " Sufferance is the badge of all our ...
... admired , and a forbearance under injuries to be envied . Two cen- turies endurance of calumny , give evident proofs of mental superiority on one side , and of imbecile persecution on the other . " Sufferance is the badge of all our ...
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... admired the art , and exerted their utmost power to cherish and protect it .-- Julius and Augustus were known to dedicate some of their leisure hours , when retired from the fatigues of state , to the composition of tragedy . Marcus ...
... admired the art , and exerted their utmost power to cherish and protect it .-- Julius and Augustus were known to dedicate some of their leisure hours , when retired from the fatigues of state , to the composition of tragedy . Marcus ...
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... admired preacher of his time . - I must here remark to you , that the most violent of our modern saints , approve of moral or religious pieces , in the form of a drama . It is the acting alone that is sinful ! -You remember the BIG ...
... admired preacher of his time . - I must here remark to you , that the most violent of our modern saints , approve of moral or religious pieces , in the form of a drama . It is the acting alone that is sinful ! -You remember the BIG ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 199 - Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, And I have found thee.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.