Fashionable AmusementsJonathan Leavitt, 1831 - 205 pages |
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Page iii
... pages ; but a dispassionate and courteous investigation of the true tendency of customs so unfavourable to the cultivation of piety . Our children and youth are naturally far enough from God . It were wise and kind not to.
... pages ; but a dispassionate and courteous investigation of the true tendency of customs so unfavourable to the cultivation of piety . Our children and youth are naturally far enough from God . It were wise and kind not to.
Page xiii
... youth are principally of this class - Card - playing possesses but little of this quality , being as much a game of chance as skill - The attraction must reside in some concomitant of the amusement - Whether mercenary considerations ...
... youth are principally of this class - Card - playing possesses but little of this quality , being as much a game of chance as skill - The attraction must reside in some concomitant of the amusement - Whether mercenary considerations ...
Page 26
... youth , for instance , be accus- tomed to hear such pursuits declaimed against and forbidden , without a single reason accompanying the prohibition , or such reasons only as his judgment pro- nounces palpably absurd , how unprepared ...
... youth , for instance , be accus- tomed to hear such pursuits declaimed against and forbidden , without a single reason accompanying the prohibition , or such reasons only as his judgment pro- nounces palpably absurd , how unprepared ...
Page 27
... youth , who attempts to form a virtuous character , at once fair and firm , on the basis of mere prohibition and command , acts with ignorance and folly , similar to that of the inconsiderate builder described in one of our Saviour's ...
... youth , who attempts to form a virtuous character , at once fair and firm , on the basis of mere prohibition and command , acts with ignorance and folly , similar to that of the inconsiderate builder described in one of our Saviour's ...
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... youth should employ his best exertions to prevent exposure to their temptations . It is obvious that unlawful gratification forms the strongest test of youthful virtue . Pleasure , at this early period of life , is peculiarly attractive ...
... youth should employ his best exertions to prevent exposure to their temptations . It is obvious that unlawful gratification forms the strongest test of youthful virtue . Pleasure , at this early period of life , is peculiarly attractive ...
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admiration admitted advantages advocate afford amid appears argument attention attractions ball-room beauty benevolence card-playing card-table cards charms chess circumstances considerable correct corres criminal dancing danger degree delight desire destitute doubles entendres drama ductility ductions duty elegance employed enjoyment excitement exhibitions Faery Queene fair brows fascination fashionable amusements feeling former Fox and Geese furnished gaiety Gamester gratification habits happiness heart human mind imagination imitative powers important indulged injury innocent intellectual and moral interest juvenile ment mental misanthropie moral character nature object opponent opposite partake passions perfect conceptions performers perusal pleasure possesses present principles productions pursuits qualities racter reason recreation religion remarks render representation sacred Samuel Lowell scene secure sentiments society soever spectator spirit stage amusements success suffering sufficient supplied taste temptation tendency theatre theatrical amusements thought timate tion trifling truth unlawful vice virtue virtuous character votaries wise young persons youth
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Page 45 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Page 66 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 189 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...
Page 19 - In joyous pleasure then in grievous paine; For sweetnesse doth allure the weaker sence So strongly, that uneathes it can refraine From that which feeble nature covets faine : But griefe and wrath, that be her enemies And foes of life, she better can abstaine : Yet vertue vauntes in both her victories, And Guyon in them all shewes goodly maysteries.
Page 35 - So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind Though single.
Page 121 - Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship.
Page 142 - Cet amour des objets imaginaires et cette facilité de m'en occuper achevèrent de me dégoûter de tout ce qui m'entouroit, et déterminèrent ce goût pour la solitude qui m'est toujours resté depuis ce temps-là. On verra plus d'une fois dans la suite les bizarres effets de cette disposition si misanthrope et si sombre en apparence, mais qui vient • en effet d'un cœur trop affectueux , trop aimant, trop tendre , qui, faute d'en trouver d'existants qui lui ressemblent, est forcé de s'alimenter...
Page 165 - Oh! he will tell thee, that the wealth of worlds Should ne'er seduce his bosom to forego That sacred hour...
Page 116 - For praise too dearly loved, or warmly sought, Enfeebles all internal strength of thought; And the weak soul, within itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.