 ... and improvement. Hence, is a scene of lewdness or debauchery to be introduced into a Romance ? It is placed in an Italian convent. Is an assassin wanted to frighten ladies in the country, or to terrify a London mob on the stage? An Italian appears...  A Classical Tour Through Italy, An. MDCCCII. - Page 289by John Chetwode Eustace - 1815Full view - About this book
 | John Chetwode Eustace - 1813 - 688 pages
...ancestors: in short, wallowing in sensual indulgence, and utterly lost to all sense of virtue, honour, and improvement. Hence, is a scene of lewdness or...executed, or is religion to be employed as the means or instrument of lust or revenge? The scene is laid in Italy; the contrivers and the perpetrators are... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1814 - 572 pages
...scene of debauchery be introduced into a romance, it is placed in an Italian convent. If an assassin be wanted to frighten ladies in the country, or to terrify...of poison in one hand, and a dagger in the other. Or if a crime too great for utterance is to be presented to the imagination, it is half disclosed in... | |
 | John Chetwode Eustace - 1818 - 528 pages
...bigotted as to burn all who reject their superstitions ; void of all patriotism, yet proud of the glorv of their ancestors : in short, wallowing in sensual...employed as the means or the instrument of lust or revenge ? The scene is laid in Italy ; the contrivers and the perpetrators are Italians; and to give... | |
 | John Chetwode Eustace - 1818 - 522 pages
...and improvement. Hence, is a scene of lewdness or debauchery to be introduced into a Itorriiftfce? It is placed in an Italian convent . Is an assassin...employed as the means or the instrument of lust or revenge ? The scene is laid in Italy ; the contrivers and the perpetrators are Italians; and to give... | |
 | John Chetwode Eustace - 1821 - 490 pages
...live in promiscuous adultery, yet so jealous, as, to murder their rivals; so impious as scarcely tol believe in God, yet so bigotted as to burn all who...employed as the means or the instrument of lust or revenge ? The scene is laid in Italy ; the contrivers and the perpetrators are Italians ; and to give... | |
 | 614 pages
...ancestors ; in short, wallowing in sensual indulgence, and utterly lost to all sense of virtue, honour, and improvement. Hence, is a scene of lewdness or...employed as the means or the instrument of lust or revenge ? The scene is laid in Italy. The contrivers and the perpetrators are Italians ; and to give... | |
 | John Chetwode Eustace - 1837 - 480 pages
...frighten ladies in the country, or to terrify a London mob on the stage? An Italian appears ; a monk or 2 friar probably, with a dose of poison in one hand...employed as the means or the instrument of lust or revenge ? The scene is laid in Italy ; the contrivers and the perpetrators are Italians ; and to give... | |
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