 And whereas public Sports do not well agree with public Calamities, nor public Stage-plays with the Seasons of Humiliation, this being an exercise of sad and pious Solemnity, and the other being Spectacles of Pleasure too commonly expressing lascivious...  Government Regulation of Elizabethan Drama - Page 223by Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve - 1908 - 259 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1817 - 612 pages
...declared, that " whereas public sports do not * agree with public calamities, nor public stage-plays with 1 the seasons of humiliation ; this being an exercise of sad ' and pious solemnity ; the other being spectacles of plea' sure too commonly expressing lascivious mirth and levi* iy ;... | |
 | 1825 - 364 pages
...recreations were laid aside. By an ordinance of September the second, 1642, it was declared, that, " whereas public sports do not well agree with public...this being an exercise of sad and pious solemnity; the other being spectacles of pleasure, too commonly expressing lascivious mirth and levity ; it is,... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell - History - 1821 - 668 pages
...agree with public calamities, nor public stage-plays with seasons of humiliation ; they being exercises of sad and pious solemnity, and the other being spectacles...too commonly expressing lascivious mirth and levity. Instead of these are recommended the profitable and seasonable considerations of repentance, reconciliation,... | |
 | Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1822 - 554 pages
...laid aside. By an ordinance of September 2, 1642, it was declared, that " whereas public sports do not agree with public calamities, nor public stage-plays...this being an exercise of sad and pious solemnity ; the other being spectacles of pleasure too commonly expressing lascivious mirth and levity ; it is... | |
 | Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1822 - 552 pages
...laid aside. By an ordinance of September 2, 1642, it was declared, that " whereas public sports do not agree with public calamities, nor public stage-plays...this being an exercise of sad and pious solemnity ; the other being spectacles of pleasure too commonly expressing lascivious mirth and levity; it is... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1824 - 718 pages
...agree with publick calamities, nor publick stage-plays with tbe seasons of humiliation, this being au exercise of sad and pious solemnity, and the other...mirth and levity: it is therefore thought fit, and ordaiued by tbe Lords and Commons in this Parliament assembled, that while these sad causes and set-times... | |
 | Books - 1825 - 368 pages
...recreations were laid aside. By an ordinance of September the second, 1642, it was declared, that, " whereas public sports do not well agree with public...this being an exercise of sad and pious solemnity ; the other being spectacles of pleasure, too commonly expressing lascivious mirth and levity ; it... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1825 - 526 pages
...enjoined ; and whereas pnblike sports doe not well agree with publike calamities, nor publike stage-playes with the seasons of humiliation, this being an exercise of sad and pious solemnity, and the other spectacles of pleasure, too commonly expressing lascivious mirth and levetie ; it is therefore thought... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Actors - 1830 - 348 pages
...enjoined ; and whereas publike sports doe not well agree with publike calamities, nor publike stage-playes with the seasons of humiliation, this being an exercise of sad and pious solemnity, and the other spectacles of pleasure, too commonly expressing lascivious mirth and levetie ; it is therefore thought... | |
 | Books - 1825 - 368 pages
...declared, that, " whereas public sports do not well agree with public calamities, nor public staje-plays with the seasons of humiliation; this being an exercise of sad and pious solemnity ; the other being spectacles of pleasure, too commonly expressing lascivious mirth and levity ; it... | |
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