| Churchill Babington - 1849 - 130 páginas
...account of it (composed a few years since), with which this section shall be concluded. " In 1698, Collier published his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, a book which threw the whole literary world into commotion, but which is now much less read than it... | |
| Churchill Babington - 1849 - 182 páginas
...account of it (composed a few years since), with which this section shall be concluded. " In 1698, Collier published his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, a book which threw the whole literary world into commotion, but which is now much less read than it... | |
| 1850 - 574 páginas
...differed little from those which are now held by Dr. Pusey and Mr. Newman.' ' In 1698,' says Macaulay, ' Collier published his " Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage," a book which threw the whole literary world into commotion, but which is now much less read than it... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 354 páginas
...hereditary right, came forward as the champion of decency, the battle was already half won. In 1698, Collier published his " Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage," a book which threw the whole literary world into commotion, but which is now much less read than it... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 128 páginas
...hereditary right, came forward as the champion of decency, the battle was already half won. In 1698, Collier published his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, a book which threw the whole literary world into commotion, but which is now much less read than it... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 450 páginas
...hereditary right, came forward as the champion of decency, the battle was already half won. In 1698, Collier published his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, a book which threw the whole literary world into commotion, but which is now much less read than it... | |
| David Pryde - 1862 - 160 páginas
...height, it was only necessary that some literary reformer should appear. Accordingly, no sooner had Jeremy Collier published his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, than public opinion took the side of virtue. In vain did Congreve, and other dramatists, try to defend... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 páginas
...hereditary right, came forward as the champion of decency, the battle was already half won. In 1698, Collier published his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, a book which threw the whole literary world into commotion, but which is now much less read than it... | |
| Henry Trueman Wood - 1870 - 76 páginas
...French manners and fashions. In his Marriage a lor Mode, he satirizes this prevailing folly. In 1698 Collier published his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, and whatever are the merits or the faults of the book, it had certainly a most powerful effect on succeeding... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - 1870 - 388 páginas
...extravagantly eulogizes. 297. In 1698, JEREMY COLLIER (1650-1726), an ardent, nonjuring clergyman, published his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Staffs. This pamphlet was written with extraordinary fire, wit, and energy; and the evil which it combated... | |
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