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An expostulatory letter to the Rev. W. D. Tattersall, A. M. Rector of Westbourne, Sussex, and Vicar of Morton-Underedge, Gloucestershire. in which the bad tendency of the admission of stage amusements, in a religious and moral point of view, is seriously considered. By Rowland Hill, A. M. Late of St. John's College, Cambridge.
Hill, Rowland, 1744-1833.Date: 1795- Books
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Remarks on the prevailing custom of attending stage entertainments: also on the present taste for reading romances and novels: and on some other customs; Submitted, with a heart overflowing with good will, to the notice and consideration of the professors of the Christian name, in the different religious societies; By John Kendall.
Kendall, John, 1726-1815.Date: M.DCC.XCIV. [1794]- Books
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The morality of stage-plays seriously considered.
Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816.Date: M,DCC,LVII. printed in the year, [1757]- Books
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A serious remonstrance in behalf of the Christian religion, against the horrid blasphemies and impieties which are still used in the English play-houses, to the great dishonour of Almighty God, and in contempt of the statutes of this realm. Shewing their plain Tendency to overthrow all Piety, and advance the Interest and Honour of the Devil in the World; from almost Seven Thousand Instances, taken out of the Plays of the present Century, and especially of the five last Years, in defiance of all Methods hitherto used for their Reformation. By Arthur Bedford, M. A. Chaplain to the most Noble Wriothesly Duke of Bedford, and Rector of Newton St. Loe in the County of Somerset.
Bedford, Arthur, 1668-1745.Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]- Books
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The absolute unlawfulness of the stage-entertainment fully demonstrated. By William Law, A.M.
Law, William, 1686-1761.Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726]- Books
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A letter from M. Rousseau, of Geneva, to M. D'Alembert, of Paris, concerning the effects of theatrical entertainments on the manners of mankind. Translated from the French.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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The person of quality's answer to Mr. Collier's letter, Being a Disswasive from the Play-House. In which are Inserted the Apologies of a Young Lady, and Young Gentleman, in behalf of the Ladies and Gentlemen who frequent the Play-House.
Dennis, John, 1657-1734.Date: 1704- Books
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A serious enquiry into the nature and effects of the stage. Being an attempt to show, that contributing to the support of a public theatre, is inconsistent with the character of a Christian. By John Witherspoon, M. A. Minister of the Gospel in Beith.
Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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The absolute unlawfulness of the stage-entertainment fully demonstrated. By William Law, A.M.
Law, William, 1686-1761.Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726]- Books
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Mr. Collier's dissuasive from the play-house; in a letter to a person of quality, occasion'd by the late calamity of the tempest.
Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.Date: 1704- Books
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A letter to the Right Honourable Sir Richard Brocas, lord mayor of London. By a Citizen.
Hare, Francis, 1671-1740.Date: MDCCXXX. [1730]- Books
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A reinforcement of the reasons proving that the stage is an unchristian diversion. Or, a vindication of the appendix to the use and abuse of diversions, a sermon on Luke xix. 13. In answer to the remarks of an anonymous author. By the Revd George Anderson V.D.M. author o the sermon and appendix.
Anderson, George, 1676-1756.Date: MDCCXXXIII. [1733]- Books
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A defence of The short view of the profaneness and immorality of the English stage, &c. Being a reply to Mr. Congreve's Amendments, &c. and to the Vindication of the author of the Relapse. By Jeremy Collier, M.A.
Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.Date: 1705- Books
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A Representation of the impiety & immorality of the English stage, with reasons for putting a stop thereto: and some questions addrest to those who frequent the play-houses.
Date: 1704- Books
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The theatre licentious and perverted. Or, a sermon for reformation of manners. Preached on the Lord's day, Dec. 2. 1770. Partly occasioned by the acting of a comedy, entitled, The minor, in the licensed Theatre of Edinburgh, on Saturday the 24th of November preceding. By James Baine, A. M. Minister of the Gospel at Edinburgh. Inscribed to Samuel Foote, Esq;
Baine, James, 1710-1790.Date: [1770]- Books
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An oration, in which an enquiry is made whether the stage is, or can be made a school for forming the mind to virtue; And proving the Superiority of Theatric Instruction over those of History and Moral Philosophy. With reflections on operas. Spoke March 13, 1733, in the Jesuits College at Paris, in Presence of the Cardinals de Polignac and de Bissy, the Pope's Nuncio, and several other Persons of the highest Distinction by Charles Porée of the Society of Jesus, translated into English by J. Lockman.
Porée, Charles, 1675-1741.Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Books
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The usefulness of the stage to religion, and to government: shewing the advantage of the drama in all nations since its first institution. With an account of the rise and progress of the play-houses that were put down, and Remarks on all the Dramatick Pieces which have been Published and Played since the late Act of Parliament for Licencing the Stage, with the Reasons that Occasioned it. Also A Distinction between the Stage and the Press, and our present Written Plays and the Drama in its Purity, with Reflections on the Taste of the Times, as to Ballad Operas, Pantomines, Dumb Shew, Tumbling, Dancing, and Entertainments.
Date: [1738]- Books
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A Representation of the impiety & immorality of the English stage, with reasons for putting a stop thereto: and some questions addrest to those who frequent the play-houses.
Date: 1704- Books
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An address to the ladies on the indecency of appearing at immodest plays.
Date: M.DCC.LVI. [1756]- Books
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Some remarks upon the Revd. Mr. Anderson's positions concerning the unlawfulness of stage-plays. In a letter to the author.
Date: MDCCXXXIII. [1733]- Books
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A discourse on stage entertainments. By the Revd. David Simpson, M. A.
Simpson, David, 1745-1799.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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A christian exhortation to the people.
Carrington, Thomas.Date: 1778]- Books
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Visits from the shades: or, dialogues serious, comical, and political. Calculated for these times. Between I. Jo Hains's ghost, and the Reforming Mr. Collier. II. Pryn, and the Loyal Observator. III. Nat. Lee the Tragedian, and Colly Cibber, the Plagiary. IV. Pasquil, and Heraclitus Ridens. V. Hobs, and the Pious Mr. Asgill. VI. Ben Jonson, and Mr. Baker, the Author of the Oxford-Act. Vii. The Famous Luxemburgh, and Mynheer Obdam. Viii. John Sobiesky, and the present King of Polod. IX. Gustavus Adolphus, and the present King of S---n.
Date: Printed in the Year [1704]-05- Books
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The usefulness of the stage to religion, and to government: shewing the advantage of the drama in all nations since its first institution. With an account of the rise and progress of the play-houses that were put Down, and Remarks on all the Dramatick Pieces which have been Published and Played since the late Act of Parliament for Licencing the Stage, with the Reasons that Occasioned it. Also a distinction between the stage and the press, and our present Written Plays and the Drama in its Purity, with Reflections on the Taste of the Times, as to Ballad Operas, Pantomines, Dumb-Shew, Tumbling, Dancing, and Entertainments.
Date: [1738]- Books
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The absolute unlawfulness of the stage-entertainment fully demonstrated. By William Law, M.A.
Law, William, 1686-1761.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]