Four Discourses on Subjects Relating to the Amusement of the Stage: Preached at Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, on Sunday September 25, and Sunday October 2, 1808; with Copious Supplementary Notes |
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... world was convulsed with new speculations in politics and divinity , likely to warp a young and uninformed mind , I conceive it to have been in a great measure Owing to the sound doctrines I imbibed at these Lectures vi DEDICATION .
... world was convulsed with new speculations in politics and divinity , likely to warp a young and uninformed mind , I conceive it to have been in a great measure Owing to the sound doctrines I imbibed at these Lectures vi DEDICATION .
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... young men pick up their habits of thinking and their notions of morality from the play - house , it is not perhaps going too far to suspect , that the principles and examples exhibited on the stage , may contribute in their full measure ...
... young men pick up their habits of thinking and their notions of morality from the play - house , it is not perhaps going too far to suspect , that the principles and examples exhibited on the stage , may contribute in their full measure ...
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... young man becomes acquainted with the world in which he is to live ; he sees the effect of those passions which are his most dangerous enemies ; and he learns to shun the errors and vices which are there held up to just detestation ...
... young man becomes acquainted with the world in which he is to live ; he sees the effect of those passions which are his most dangerous enemies ; and he learns to shun the errors and vices which are there held up to just detestation ...
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... young man on his setting out in life , would be to teach him duly to estimate the force and the effects of ridicule ; whereby perhaps he may be preserved from being laughed out of many virtues , which are ON WIT AND RIDICULE . 61.
... young man on his setting out in life , would be to teach him duly to estimate the force and the effects of ridicule ; whereby perhaps he may be preserved from being laughed out of many virtues , which are ON WIT AND RIDICULE . 61.
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... young men to all good discipline , and enflame grown men to all great virtues , & c . That the general complaint was that the writers of those days had nothing remaining in them of the dignity of a poet , but the abused name ...
... young men to all good discipline , and enflame grown men to all great virtues , & c . That the general complaint was that the writers of those days had nothing remaining in them of the dignity of a poet , but the abused name ...
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