 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 572 pages
...sin and Satan, that it stands, in their vocabulary, for every species of abomination. And yet why ? Where is every feeling more roused in favour of virtue than at a good plajr ! Where is goodness so feelingly, so enthusiastically learnt ? What so solemn as to see the most... | |
 | 1821 - 522 pages
...favour of virtue, than at a good play ? Where is goodness so feelingly, so enthusiastically learned ? What so solemn as to see the excellent passions of...forth by a great actor, animated by a great poet ? To behold the child and his mother, the great man and the poor artisan, all ages and all ranks, moved... | |
 | 1821 - 510 pages
...with sin and Satan, that it stands in their vocabulary for every species of abomination. And yet why ? Where is every feeling more roused in favour of virtue,...Where is goodness so feelingly, so enthusiastically learned ? What so solemn as to see the excellent passions of the human heart called forth by a great... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - England - 1822 - 218 pages
...duty more strikingly taught than at a well-regulated theatre? What so sublime as to see the noblest passions of the human heart called forth by a great actor, animated by a great poet? The pallid and sceptered muse of tragedy has " wept herself to marble" over the urn of persecuted virtue... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1839 - 464 pages
...sin and Satan, — that it stands in their vocabulary for every species of abomination. And yet why ? Where is every feeling more roused in favour of virtue...great poet ? To hear Siddons repeat what Shakspeare wrote ! To behold the child and his mother — the noble and the poor artisan — the monarch and his... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English literature - 1844 - 348 pages
...Satan, — that it stands in their vocabulary for every species of abomh-ation. And yet why? \Vliere is every feeling more roused in favour of virtue than...great poet ? To hear Siddons repeat what Shakspeare wrote ! To behold the child and his mother — the noble and the poor artisan — the monarch and his... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English literature - 1844 - 348 pages
...every species of abomiuation. And yet why ? Where is every feeling more roused in favour of viitue than at a good play? Where is goodness so feelingly, so enthusiastically leamt ? What so solemn as to see the excellent passions of the human heart called forth by a great... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English literature - 1845 - 530 pages
...Satan, that it stands in their vocabulary for every species of abomination. And yet why ? Where is evey feeling more roused in favour of virtue than at a...great poet ? To hear Siddons repeat what Shakspeare wrote ! To behold the child and his mother — the noble and the poor artisan — the monarch and his... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1846 - 368 pages
...sin and Satan, — that it stands in their vocabulary for every species of abomh-ation. And yet why? Where is every feeling more roused in favour of virtue than at food play? Where is goodness so feelingly, so enthusiastically learnt ? What so solemn as to see the... | |
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... the theatre. There is something in the word Playhouse which seems so closely connected, in the minds of these people, with sin and Satan, — that it stands in their vocabulary for every species of abomination. 
