 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 deserves. The faults of the work, indeed, are neither few nor...  The Works of Lord Macaulay - Page 381by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898Full view - About this book
 | William Jones - 1801 - 494 pages
...wit, every young student may guard his mind and rectify his judgment, by reading Mr. Collier's View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage ; a book which brought Dryden himself to repentance, and does indeed beggar every work work upon the same argument;... | |
 | 1821 - 322 pages
...wit, every young student may guard his mind and rectify his judgment, by reading Mr. Collier's View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage ; a book, which brought Drydcn himself to repentance, and does indeed beggar every work upon the same argument : it... | |
 | Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - 1821 - 322 pages
...wit, every young student may guard his mind and rectify his judgment, by reading Mr. Collier's View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage ; a book, which brought Dryden himself to repentance, and does indeed beggar every work upon the same argument : it... | |
 | William Jones, William Stevens - 1826 - 474 pages
...wit, every young student may guard his mind and rectify his judgment, by reading Mr. Collier's View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage: a book which brought Dryden himself to repentance, and does indeed beggar every work upon the same argument; it... | |
 | Jeremy Collier - 1840 - 656 pages
...wit, every young student should guard bis mind and rectify his judgment by reading Mr. Collier's View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage ; a book which brought Dryden himself to repentance, and does indeed beggar every work upon the same argument. It... | |
 | 1841 - 596 pages
...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,'...which fancied that Christ Church had refuted Bentley, are.such as, in the present day, a scholar of very humble pretensions may venture to pronounce boyish,... | |
 | William Jones - 1846 - 286 pages
...wit, ever}' young student may guard his mind and rectify his judgment, by reading Mr. Collier's View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage ; a book which brought Dryden himself to repentance, and does indeed beggar every work upon the same argument; it... | |
 | 1850 - 574 pages
...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,"...commotion, but which is now much less read than it deserves ! great merit must be allowed to this work. There is hardly any book of that time from which it would... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 354 pages
...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,"...thought of them by the generation which fancied that Christchurch had refuted Bentley, are such as, in the present day, a scholar of very humble pretensions... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 950 pages
...decency, the battle was already half won. In 1698, Collier published his Short View of tha Profiineness and Immorality of the English Stage, a book which...commotion, but which is now much less read than it delerves. The faults of the work, indeed, are neither few nor small. The dissertations on the Greek... | |
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