 | Wayne E. Burton - Wit and humor - 1868 - 552 pages
...in favor of virtue than at a good play? Whore is goodness so feelingly, so enthusiastically learned? What so solemn as to see the excellent passions of...the child and his mother — the noble and the poor artisan — the monarch and his subjects — all ages and all ranks convulsed with one common passion... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1869 - 424 pages
...with sin and Satan, that it stands in their vocabulary for every species of abomination. And yet why? Where is every feeling more roused in favour of virtue...animated by a great poet? To hear Siddons repeat what Shakspeare wrote! To behold the child and his mother — the noble and the poor artisan — the monarch... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Essays - 1869 - 890 pages
...with sin and Satan, that it stands in their vocabulary for every species of abomination. And yet why ? Where is every feeling more roused in favour of virtue...feelingly, so enthusiastically learnt? What so solemn as to sec the excellent passions of the human heart called forth by a great actor, animated by n great poet... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Christian ethics - 1870 - 842 pages
...sin and Satan,—that it stands in their vocabulary for every species of abomination. And yet why Î Where is every feeling more roused in favour of virtue...goodness so feelingly, so enthusiastically learnt Î What so solemn as to see the excellent passions of the human heart called forth by a great actor,... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1856 - 784 pages
...recommends it as one of the best means of continuing virtuous, and reforming the vicious. He adds: — "Where is every feeling more roused in favour of virtue...Where is goodness so feelingly, so enthusiastically learned? What so solemn, as to see the excellent passions of the human heart called forth by a great... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English essays - 1874 - 608 pages
...with sin and Satan, that it stands in their vocabulary for every species of abomination. And yet why ? Where is every feeling more roused in favour of virtue...animated by a great poet ? To hear Siddons repeat what Shakspeare wrote ! To behold the child and his mother — the noble and the poor artizan — the monarch... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1877 - 626 pages
...with sin and Satan, that it stands in their vocabulary for every species of abomination. And yet why ? Where is every feeling more roused in favour of virtue...animated by a great poet ? To hear Siddons repeat what Shakspeare wrote ! To behold the child and his mother— the noble and the poor artisan — the monarch... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - England - 1878 - 400 pages
...people with Satan, that it stands in their vocabulary for every species of abomination. And yet, why ? Where is every feeling more roused in favour of virtue...than at a good play ? Where is goodness so feelingly learnt ? What so solemn as to see the excellent passions of the human heart called forth by a great... | |
 | Theology - 1857 - 992 pages
...recommenfa it as one of the best means of continuing virtuous, and reforming the vicious. He adds : — " Where is every feeling more roused in favour of virtue...Where is goodness so feelingly, so enthusiastically learned ? What so solemn, as to see the excellent passions of the human heart called forth by a great... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1889 - 470 pages
...vocabulary for every species of abomination. And yet why ? Where is every feeling more roused in favor of virtue than at a good play ? Where is goodness...animated by a great poet? To hear Siddons repeat what Shakespeare wrote ! To behold the child and his mother — the noble and the poor artisan — the monarch... | |
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... the theatre. There is something in the word Playhouse which seems so closely connected, in the minds of these people, with sin and Satan, — that it stands in their vocabulary for every species of abomination. 
