The Works of the Rev Daniel M'Call

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and dissipated, I would prescribe the same recreation, or solitude and study. How far die entertainments of the stage are reconcileable with the preceding rules and observations, will be the subject of another paper, which will appear when opportunity serves. Sylvanus. ?on rtje fjeatre?No. Hi.. tty,...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and dissipated, I would prescribe the same recreation, or solitude and study. How far die entertainments of the stage are reconcileable with the preceding rules and observations, will be the subject of another paper, which will appear when opportunity serves. Sylvanus. ?on rtje fjeatre?No. Hi.. tty, Efattle from a discifile of Thalia, to a certain Preach. HYPOCRISY'S on, No more of your fun, A truce with fanatical raving- Why censure the Stage I 'Tis known to the age, That both of us thrive by deceiving. 'Tis frequently said, That two of a trade Will boldly each other bespatter: But, trust me, they're fools, Who play with edg'd tools? So let's have no more of the matter. City Gazette?from the Botton CentineU I Should not have deigned to take notice of this mean scrap of doggrel, but that it affords a direct argument in favor of what I have advanced against the general character and tendency of the stage. Conscious that it is incapable of being defended hy fair reasoning, its advocates, and especially theplayers, have no other means of recommending U to the popular taste, than ridicule of seriousness; which they find, by experience, is that alone which can support it. To represent all pretensions to sobriety and religionras mere hypocrisy and fanaticism, word of great consequence to players, so well takes with the depraved taste of mankind, that it is better understood and more sensibly felt, by the vulgar, than any possible arguments from reason, religion, or public utility. Hypocrisy is a term that has ever been successfully employed against religion and good manners; it has been made the pretext and engine of vice, but is never employed by the friends and advocates of virtue, in any other cause than the good of mankind?not to ...