The Controversy Between the Puritans and the Stage, 第 18-20 卷

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H. Holt, 1903 - 275 頁
 

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第 250 頁 - The devil a puritan that he is, or any thing constantly, but a time-pleaser ; an affectioned ass, that cons state without book and utters it by great swarths : the best persuaded of himself, so crammed, as he thinks, with excellencies, that it is his grounds of faith that all that look
第 19 頁 - sacrificing all to duty. This life, however, was not long his ; in him Tennyson's words are exemplified, Not once or twice in our rough island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory. He was called from his retirement to fill the highest position in the church at Constantinople. There, though
第 251 頁 - him love him ; and on that vice in him will my revenge find notable cause to work." The character, at any rate, lacks so much of the definite application of the true humour study, and of its realism, that from it we get no
第 67 頁 - Halliwell-Phillips, Outlines, I, 344. mously, and wrote for the overthrow of his former profession. The work was entitled, A second and third blast of retrait from plaies and Theaters: the one whereof was sounded by a reuerend Byshop dead long since; the other by a worshipful and zealous Gentleman now
第 49 頁 - Perverse Doctrine says : For since these Genevan doctors came so fast into this land, Since that time it was never merry with England, and Ignorance thus describes the new ministers : With a gathered frock, a polled head and a broad hat, An unshaved beard, a pale face. 1
第 14 頁 - 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 approve pretended loves, and wraths, and groans, and tears.
第 16 頁 - in abundance of our own. ... Would you have also fightings and wrestlings? Well, of these there is no lacking, and they are not of slight account. Behold unchastity overcome by chastity, perfidy slain by faithfulness, cruelty stricken by compassion, impudence thrown into the shade by modesty : these are the contests we have among us, and in these
第 40 頁 - 1572, p. 215. dayes, at which tymes such playes weare chefelye used, unthriftye waste of the moneye of the poore & fond persons, sondrye robberies by pyckinge and cuttinge of purses, utteringe of popular, busye and sedycious matters, and manie other corruptions of youthe." In addition to these serious moral affronts, the risk from the frequent