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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... preaching this morning , I was so overcome with the love and PRESENCE , and exceeding glory of my TRIUNE GOD , that I sunk down unable to support it ! " At the love - feast , I was again overwhelmed with his immediate PRESENCE . ” As I ...
... preaching this morning , I was so overcome with the love and PRESENCE , and exceeding glory of my TRIUNE GOD , that I sunk down unable to support it ! " At the love - feast , I was again overwhelmed with his immediate PRESENCE . ” As I ...
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... 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 ENDIANS and ...
... 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 ENDIANS and ...
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... preacher , and even Queen Mab herself cannot exhibit more versatile powers . - At any rate , she is not an exclusive stage property , though frequently brought thither to expose her own absurdities . 3rd . " Because we are not to ...
... preacher , and even Queen Mab herself cannot exhibit more versatile powers . - At any rate , she is not an exclusive stage property , though frequently brought thither to expose her own absurdities . 3rd . " Because we are not to ...
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... PREACHER , at the same meeting . The subject is a HAUNTED HOUSE , near Dungannon , in the North of Ireland . " An officer , quartered at that town , one evening when rather pot - valiant , went , by himself , to the haunted house ...
... PREACHER , at the same meeting . The subject is a HAUNTED HOUSE , near Dungannon , in the North of Ireland . " An officer , quartered at that town , one evening when rather pot - valiant , went , by himself , to the haunted house ...
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... preach'd the crime : the people ru'd . The stage was silenc'd : FOR THE SAINTS WOULD SEE IN FIELDS PERFORM'D THEIR PLOTTED TRAGEDY , But let us first reform : and then so live , That we may teach our teachers to forgive , Our desk be ...
... preach'd the crime : the people ru'd . The stage was silenc'd : FOR THE SAINTS WOULD SEE IN FIELDS PERFORM'D THEIR PLOTTED TRAGEDY , But let us first reform : and then so live , That we may teach our teachers to forgive , Our desk be ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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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.