The Controversy Between the Puritans and the Stage, Issues 20-21 |
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... regard more sympathetically the Puritans ' es- pousal of the cause of morality , I can still rejoice that their cause did not triumph - and there is really more than chance at bottom of it - till the work of our greatest dram- atists ...
... regard more sympathetically the Puritans ' es- pousal of the cause of morality , I can still rejoice that their cause did not triumph - and there is really more than chance at bottom of it - till the work of our greatest dram- atists ...
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... truth , " he said , " hates 1 Vanity of Sciences , chapter 4 . 2 Schmidt , p . 430 . 3 Address to the Greeks , p . 28 . 991 all the false ; He regards as adultery all Puritans and the Stage . 13 Chapter Plato and the Fathers, Chapter.
... truth , " he said , " hates 1 Vanity of Sciences , chapter 4 . 2 Schmidt , p . 430 . 3 Address to the Greeks , p . 28 . 991 all the false ; He regards as adultery all Puritans and the Stage . 13 Chapter Plato and the Fathers, Chapter.
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Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson. 991 all the false ; He regards as adultery all that is unreal . Condemning , therefore , as He does hypocrisy in every form , He never will approve any putting on of voice , or sex , or age ; He never will ...
Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson. 991 all the false ; He regards as adultery all that is unreal . Condemning , therefore , as He does hypocrisy in every form , He never will approve any putting on of voice , or sex , or age ; He never will ...
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... regard its offspring ? It must again be noted that the Fathers were thoroughly trained in Grecian culture . They saw the evils of Hellenic ideals ; nevertheless , many , like Basil , were ready to avail themselves of the good of the old ...
... regard its offspring ? It must again be noted that the Fathers were thoroughly trained in Grecian culture . They saw the evils of Hellenic ideals ; nevertheless , many , like Basil , were ready to avail themselves of the good of the old ...
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... worship all were in the same degree offensive to God . From this he concluded : " Nay , as regards the arts , 1 De Spectaculis , p . 15–20 . we ought to have gone further back , and barred 24 The Controversy between the.
... worship all were in the same degree offensive to God . From this he concluded : " Nay , as regards the arts , 1 De Spectaculis , p . 15–20 . we ought to have gone further back , and barred 24 The Controversy between the.
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Page 243 - But deeds and language such as men do use, And persons such as Comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times. And sport with human follies, not with crimes; Except we make 'em such, by loving still Our popular errors, when we know they're ill.
Page 231 - A Confutation of monstrous and horrible Heresies, taught by HN and embraced of a number who call themselves the Familie of Love. By I. Knewstub. Imprinted in London at the three Cranes in the Vinetree, by Thomas Dawson, for Richard Sergier, 1579,
Page 174 - ... whereas Public Sports do not well agree with public Calamities, nor Public Stage-plays with the Seasons of Humiliation, this being an Exercise of sad and pious Solemnity, and the other being Spectacles of Pleasure, too commonly expressing lascivious Mirth and...
Page 19 - Not once or twice in our rough island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory : He that walks it, only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Love of self, before his journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses. Not once or twice in our fair island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory...
Page 235 - No fitter place. They are good silly people ; souls that will Be cheated without trouble. One eye is Put out with zeal, th' other with ignorance; And yet they think they're eagles.
Page 90 - Newe bookes I heare of none, but only of one,* that writing a certaine booke called The Schoole of Abuse, and dedicating it to Maister Sidney, was for hys labor scorned : if, at leaste, it be in the goodnesse of that nature to scorne.
Page 206 - She works religious petticoats,^) for flowers She'll make church-histories. Her needle doth So sanctify my cushionets: besides My smock-sleeves have such holy embroideries And are so learned, that I fear in time All my apparel will be quoted by Some pure instructor.
Page 83 - Then, these goodly pageants being done, euery mate sorts to his mate, euery one bringes another homeward of their way verye freendly, and in their secret conclaues (couertly) they play the Sodomits, or worse. And these be the fruits of Playes or Enterluds for the most part.
Page 248 - Puritan ; 1 if any, out of mere morality and civil honesty, discountenanced the abominations of those days, he was a Puritan, however he conformed to their superstitious worship ; if any showed favour to any godly honest person, kept them company, relieved them in want, or protected them against violent or unjust oppression, he was a Puritan...
Page 219 - ... were but the vaine names of commedies changde for the titles of commodities, or of playes for pleas; you should see all those grand censors, that now stile them such vanities, flock to them for the maine grace of their gravities...