An Essay on the Character and Influence of the Stage on Morals and HappinessWilliams and Smith, 1807 - 188 |
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Strona 85 - Hath fill'd his bosom with that sacred fire, Which in the breasts of his forefathers burn'd : Set him on high like them, that he may shine The star and glory of his native land ! Then let the minister of death descend, And bear my willing spirit to its place.
Strona 37 - I believe with no other motive than religious zeal and honest indignation. He was formed for a controvertist : with sufficient learning; with diction vehement and pointed, though often vulgar and incorrect; with unconquerable pertinacity; with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastic; and with all those powers exalted and invigorated by just confidence in his cause. Thus qualified, and thus incited, he walked out to battle, and assailed at once most of the living writers, from Dryden to D'Urfey....
Strona 5 - And leads the heir apparent in her hand; The pannier'd ass creeps on with conscious pride, Bearing a future prince on either side. No choice musicians in this troop are found, To varnish nonsense with the charms of sound ; No swords, no daggers, not one...
Strona 37 - ... who dislikes it, and all those who, from habit or circumstances, live in a state of divorce from their own minds, are pleased with an amusement in which they have nothing to do but to open their eyes and behold ; the moral tendency of it, however, is very faulty* That mockery of age and...
Strona 141 - Ranger, the humble imitator of Sir Harry, has had no slight influence in spreading that character. What woman, tinctured with the playhouse morals, would not be the sprightly, the witty, though dissolute Lady...
Strona 84 - Accept a widow's and a mothers thanks For such a gift ! What does my Anna think Of the young eaglet of a valiant nest ? How soon he gaz'd on bright and burning arms, Spurn'd the low dunghill where his fate had thrown him, And tower'd up to the region of his sire ! Anna.
Strona 69 - ... halo of brothels ? Of this truth the neighbourhood of the place I am now speaking of (Goodman's Fields Theatre) has had experience ; one parish alone, adjacent thereto, having, to my knowledge, expended the sum of £1300 in prosecutions, for the purpose of removing those inhabitants whom, for instruction in the science of human life, the Playhouse had drawn thither.
Strona 140 - English comedy, copying the manners of the court, became abominably licentious; and continues so with very little softening. It is there an established rule, to deck out the chief characters with every vice in fashion, however gross. But, as such characters...
Strona 58 - Mr. Whitefield had let me come to the Lord's table with him, I never should have gone back again. But the caresses of the great are exceedingly ensnaring. My Lord E sent for me to-day, and I was glad I could not go. Poor things ! they are unhappy, and they want Shuter to make them laugh.
Strona 50 - Ciesar at an advanced period of life, to appear on the Stage to recite some of his own works, he felt his character as a Roman Citizen insulted and disgraced; and in some affecting verses spoken on the occasion, he incensed the audience against the tyrant, by whose mandate he was obliged to appear before them. " After having lived (said he) sixty years with honour.