Fashionable amusements [by D.R. Thomason.].1827 |
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... scenes introduced a form best adapted to his taste and feelings ; the spectator , on the other hand , is en- tirely dependant on the actors . The for- mer enjoys the perfection of nature , the latter suffers from the imperfections of ...
... scenes introduced a form best adapted to his taste and feelings ; the spectator , on the other hand , is en- tirely dependant on the actors . The for- mer enjoys the perfection of nature , the latter suffers from the imperfections of ...
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D R. Thomason. powerful and correct , has furnished the scenes with its best creations ; that he has studied the ... scene of the play opens to his anxious gaze ; his first impressions are all that he could wish , and he yields to ...
D R. Thomason. powerful and correct , has furnished the scenes with its best creations ; that he has studied the ... scene of the play opens to his anxious gaze ; his first impressions are all that he could wish , and he yields to ...
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... scene , and be what they behold ; For this the tragic muse first trod the stage , Commanding tears to stream thro ' every age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept , And foes to virtue wonder how they wept . ' Pope's Prologue to ...
... scene , and be what they behold ; For this the tragic muse first trod the stage , Commanding tears to stream thro ' every age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept , And foes to virtue wonder how they wept . ' Pope's Prologue to ...
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... scene of guilty fas- cination has supplied ! How many deadly acts of sin would never have been perpe- trated , but for the facilities which have here been afforded ! How are evil prac- tices here multiplied , and formed into inveterate ...
... scene of guilty fas- cination has supplied ! How many deadly acts of sin would never have been perpe- trated , but for the facilities which have here been afforded ! How are evil prac- tices here multiplied , and formed into inveterate ...
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... scene of temptation ? -many to confess , that here they first pressed to their lips that fatal chalice , to which in- chantment had given at once fascination and death ? -many a virtuous character , a gallant bark on life's wide ocean ...
... scene of temptation ? -many to confess , that here they first pressed to their lips that fatal chalice , to which in- chantment had given at once fascination and death ? -many a virtuous character , a gallant bark on life's wide ocean ...
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admiration admitted advantages advocate afford amid appears ascer attention ball-room beauty bright eyes card-playing card-table cards character charms chess circumstances considerable contest correct dancing danger degree desire destitute drama ductility ductions efforts employed enjoyment excitement exhibits Faery Queene fair brows fascinating fashionable amusements Fox and Geese furnished gaiety gratification habits happiness heart human mind imagination imitative powers importance indulged injury intellectual interest joys juvenile love of power ment mental mercenary feeling metnal moral character nature ness niary object objector opponent opposite partake passions perfect conceptions performers persons perusal pheno plea pleasure possesses present principles produced pursuits qualities racter rational reason recreation religion remarks render representation riority sacred scene secure sentiments siderable social circle soever spect spectator spirit stage stancy sufficient taste temptations tendency theatre theatrical amusements Thomas Brown thought tion trifling truth unlawful vice virtue virtuous votaries Whit-sunday wise young youth
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Page 48 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 17 - So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless faithful only he ; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; 900 Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 148 - Tam was glorious, o'er a' the ills o' life victorious ! " But pleasures are like poppies spread : you seize the flower, its bloom is shed; or like the snow falls in the river, a moment white — then melts for ever; or like the Borealis' race, that flit ere you can point their place; or like the rainbow's lovely form evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; the hour approaches Tam maun ride: that hour, o...
Page 160 - The mind which is immortal makes itself Requital for its good or evil thoughts, Is its own origin of ill and end, And its own place and time; its innate sense, When stripp'd of this mortality, derives No colour from the fleeting things without, But is absorb'd in sufferance or in joy, Born from the knowledge of its own desert.
Page 89 - Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship.
Page 123 - Oh! he will tell thee, that the wealth of worlds Should ne'er seduce his bosom to forego That sacred hour...
Page 46 - No wound, which warlike hand of enemy Inflicts with dint of sword, so sore doth light As doth the poysnous sting, which infamy Infixeth in the name of noble wight...
Page 83 - For praise too dearly loved, or warmly sought, Enfeebles all internal strength of thought; And the weak soul, within itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
Page 1 - In joyous pleasure then in grievous paine; For sweetnesse doth allure the weaker sence So strongly, that uneathes it can refraine From that which feeble nature covets faine : But griefe and wrath, that be her enemies And foes of life, she better can abstaine : Yet vertue vauntes in both her victories, And Guyon in them all shewes goodly maysteries.
Page 98 - Who to th' enraptured heart and ear and eye, Teach beauty, virtue, truth, and love, and melody. XLI. Hence ! ye, who snare and stupify the mind, Sophists, of beauty, virtue, joy, the bane ! Greedy and fell, though impotent and blind, Who spread your filthy nets in Truth's fair fane, And ever ply your venom'd fangs amain ! Hence to dark Error's den, whose rankling slime First gave you form ! Hence ! lest the Muse should deign (Though...