The Complete Works of Hannah More, Volume 5Harper & brothers, 1847 |
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... mean those uncouth pieces in which , under the titles of mysteries and moralities , the most sacred persons were introduced as interlocutors ; in which , events too solemn for exhibition , and subjects too awful for detail , were ...
... mean those uncouth pieces in which , under the titles of mysteries and moralities , the most sacred persons were introduced as interlocutors ; in which , events too solemn for exhibition , and subjects too awful for detail , were ...
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... means pretend to assert that religion is excluded from tragedies ; it is often incidentally introduced ; and many a period is beautifully turned , and many a moral is exquisitely pointed , with the finest sentiments of piety . But the ...
... means pretend to assert that religion is excluded from tragedies ; it is often incidentally introduced ; and many a period is beautifully turned , and many a moral is exquisitely pointed , with the finest sentiments of piety . But the ...
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... , that the character given to the piece often takes its color from the character of him who gives it . Passages which would escape censure from the decent moral man ( him I mean who is decent and moral on 12 PREFACE .
... , that the character given to the piece often takes its color from the character of him who gives it . Passages which would escape censure from the decent moral man ( him I mean who is decent and moral on 12 PREFACE .
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Hannah More. ( him I mean who is decent and moral on mere worldly principles ) , are , to the " purged eye " of a Christian , disgusting by their vanity , and offensive by their levity , to speak in the gentlest terms . But more ...
Hannah More. ( him I mean who is decent and moral on mere worldly principles ) , are , to the " purged eye " of a Christian , disgusting by their vanity , and offensive by their levity , to speak in the gentlest terms . But more ...
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... mean between reading a dramatic composition , and seeing a theat- rical exhibition , as if it were fanciful or arbitrary . In the latter , is it the mere repetition of the speeches which implies danger ? is it this which attracts the ...
... mean between reading a dramatic composition , and seeing a theat- rical exhibition , as if it were fanciful or arbitrary . In the latter , is it the mere repetition of the speeches which implies danger ? is it this which attracts the ...
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Page 238 - A new commandment give I unto you, that ye love one another.
Page 120 - To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took his way ; The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day.
Page 247 - It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? but the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Page 183 - THOU SHALT NOT COVET; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF. Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Page 315 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 270 - For this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I might bear witness unto the truth.
Page 264 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God " with all thy heart, and with all thy mind, and with " all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and thy
Page 192 - ... been so begun hath been blessed and prosperous to me; and, on the other side, when I have been negligent of the duties of this day, the rest of the week...
Page 387 - Degraded by the form to which 'tis join'd ? No; they have heads to think, and hearts to feel, And souls to act, with firm though erring zeal ; For they have keen affections, kind desires, Love strong as death, and active patriot fires ; All the rude energy, the fervid flame, Of high-soul'd passion and ingenuous shame : Strong but luxuriant virtues boldly shoot From the wild vigour of a savage root.
Page 379 - Unprompted moral! sudden sense of right! Perception exquisite! fair virtue's seed! Thou quick precursor of the liberal deed ! Thou hasty conscience! reason's blushing morn ! Instinctive kindness ere reflection's born! Prompt sense of equity! to thee belongs The swift redress of unexamined wrongs!