The Stage: Its Character and InfluenceT. Ward, 1838 - 210 pàgines |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 89 - Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
Pàgina 69 - Congreve was not tenable : whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages, the general tenour and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated.
Pàgina 164 - His onset was violent: those passages which while they stood single had passed with little notice, when they were accumulated and exposed together, excited horror; the wise and the pious caught the alarm, and the nation wondered why it had so long suffered irreligion and licentiousness to be openly taught at the public charge.
Pàgina 166 - How odious ought writers to be who thus employ the talents they have from their Maker most traitorously against himself, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures ! If the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with remorse in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue.
Pàgina 167 - Whereas, true religion and good morals are the only solid ^ foundation of public liberty and happiness, " Resolved, That it be, and hereby is, earnestly recommended to the several states, to take the most effectual measures for the encouragement thereof, and for the suppressing of theatrical entertainments, horse-racing, .gaming, and such other diversions as are productive of idleness, dissipation, and a general depravity of principles and manners.
Pàgina 163 - ... 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.
Pàgina 24 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life ; High actions and high passions best describing...
Pàgina 99 - ... considerations of duty proceed and conclude. And their schemes of happiness, though formed for beings at once immortal and departing, include little which avowedly relates to that world to which they are removing, nor reach beyond the period at which they will properly but begin to live. They endeavour to raise the groves of an earthly paradise, to shade from sight that vista which opens to the distance of eternity.
Pàgina 183 - The drama's laws the drama's patrons give: And those who live to please must please to live.
Pàgina 150 - 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 Play-house , had drawn thither.