This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ... and tongues set on fire of hell.' It is not only, he goes on to show, that there is great coarseness of expression, nor is it only that we are made familiar with scenes which must tend to demoralize public taste as well as public principles, but vice is nearly always associated with what men value most and desire most ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ... and tongues set on fire of hell.' It is not only, he goes on to show, that there is great coarseness of expression, nor is it only that we are made familiar with scenes which must tend to demoralize public taste as well as public principles, but vice is nearly always associated with what men value most and desire most, and virtue with everything ridiculous and degading. In nearly every play, the man who docs an injury to his neighbour is graceful, sensible, spirited, and the person who sufiers the injury is a fool, a tyrant, or both." It is not possible in this outline to omit all allusions to these works. They contain passages of great beauty and force. Their immoral character has had great influence on the public feeling in relation to the stage. The less exceptionablc of the plays we have mentioned: but as a whole, they deserve the comparison which Macaulay has drawn. ' The old drama had much that is reprehensible; but the drama of the last half of the century is unspeakably worse. The Puritans boasted that the unclean spirit was cast out: the house was swept, empty, and garnished. Now the fiend returned to his abode, and he returned not alone; he took to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself: they entered in and dwelt together, and the second possession was worse than the first." 276. These evils were not left unrebuked. In 1698, Jeremy Collier (1650-1726), a clergyman bred at Cambridge, a nonJmmy Comer juror, a warm advocate therefore of hereditary right, published his Short View of the Przfaneness and Immoralily of the English Stage. Baxter and Burnet, representatives of the Puritan and Low Church parties, might have written on this subject in vain; but a book from such a source could not fail to excite interest, and...
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