Five Lessons for Young MenAlfred Southwick, 1837 - 198 halaman |
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... they are all alike idle and useless in our estimation ; but to notice them all , in a proper manner , would just now perhaps be productive of no very great if any effect . We shall , therefore , pass 8 THE THEATRE . CQ.
... they are all alike idle and useless in our estimation ; but to notice them all , in a proper manner , would just now perhaps be productive of no very great if any effect . We shall , therefore , pass 8 THE THEATRE . CQ.
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... manner of heathens , is it likely that his auditors would generally either see the folly or feel the impiety of it . Is it not more likely that most of them would leave the Theatre with notions in their heads , entirely at war with the ...
... manner of heathens , is it likely that his auditors would generally either see the folly or feel the impiety of it . Is it not more likely that most of them would leave the Theatre with notions in their heads , entirely at war with the ...
Halaman 32
... ; for he was not only so destitute of all delicacy of sentiment , as to be proud of going bare - foot , to show his contempt of luxury , proving thereby that he was no bet- ter than a brute in manners ; for none but 32 THE THEATRE .
... ; for he was not only so destitute of all delicacy of sentiment , as to be proud of going bare - foot , to show his contempt of luxury , proving thereby that he was no bet- ter than a brute in manners ; for none but 32 THE THEATRE .
Halaman 33
... manners , will ever go barefoot , if able to buy a pair of shoes and stockings ; and a brute in manners is pretty sure to be a brute in morals ; and so it was with this " God - like " Roman ; for he did not hesitate to lend his wife to ...
... manners , will ever go barefoot , if able to buy a pair of shoes and stockings ; and a brute in manners is pretty sure to be a brute in morals ; and so it was with this " God - like " Roman ; for he did not hesitate to lend his wife to ...
Halaman 38
... ever succeeded ei- ther in conceiving or exhibiting such an idea . I attended theatres of the first order some 20 or 30 years steadily ; but never saw on any stage a correct exhibition of New England manners and habits 38 THE THEATRE .
... ever succeeded ei- ther in conceiving or exhibiting such an idea . I attended theatres of the first order some 20 or 30 years steadily ; but never saw on any stage a correct exhibition of New England manners and habits 38 THE THEATRE .
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Halaman 26 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, (and that there is all Nature cries aloud through all her works,) he must delight in virtue; and that which he delights in must be happy.
Halaman 28 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age. and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds.
Halaman 164 - Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: 10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; 11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
Halaman 27 - I'm weary of conjectures : — this must end them. [Laying his hand on his sword. Thus am I doubly armed : my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. This in a moment brings me to an end; But this informs me I shall never die.
Halaman 16 - My name is Norval ! on the Grampian hills My father feeds his flocks : a frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home.
Halaman 119 - Could the youth to whom the flavour of his first wine is delicious as the opening scenes of life, or the entering upon some newly discovered paradise, look into my desolation, and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will...
Halaman 35 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Halaman 119 - ... for this night's repetition of the folly ; could he feel the body of the death out of which I cry hourly with feebler and feebler outcry to be delivered — it were enough to make him dash the sparkling beverage to the earth in all the pride of its mantling temptation ; to make him clasp his teeth, and not undo 'em To suffer WET DAMNATION to run thro
Halaman 86 - How ill exchanged are things like these for thee ! How do thy potions, with insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid...
Halaman 196 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.