| Henry Morley - English literature - 1892 - 452 pages
...forbidden because of the plague. I like the policy well if it hold still, for a disease is but botched or patched up that is not cured in the cause, and the cause of plagues is sin if you look to it well; and the cause of sin are plays ; therefore the cause of plagues are plays."... | |
| Edward Robins - Actors - 1895 - 390 pages
...follie." From this horrible vista of sin he argued that: '' .The cause of plagues is sinne, if you look at it well, and the cause of sinne are playes ; therefore, the cause of plagues are playes." All of which shows that the reverend gentleman had enough knowledge of logic to enunciate a syllogism,... | |
| Sidney Lanier - English poetry - 1902 - 466 pages
...London's prodigalitie and folly. But I understande they are now forbidden by cause of the plague. . . . The cause of plagues is sinne, if you looke to it...playes ; therefore the cause of plagues are playes." In 1578 John Stockwood preaches a sermon at Paul's Cross—which seems to have been a favourite position... | |
| Literature - 1903 - 820 pages
...purpose, all by the time he wa twenty-four years of age. The cause of plagues is sinne, if you look to it well; and the cause of sinne are playes; therefore the cause of plagues are playes." The dedication begins with -a quaint stor of an anti-climax, and soon acquaints one wit one of Gosson's... | |
| Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson - Anglo-Saxon language - 1903 - 288 pages
...prodigalitie and folly." Then with the syllogistic reasoning, "the cause of plagues is sinne, . . . and the cause of sinne are playes: therefore the cause of plagues are playes," an assertion that found ready belief, he continued : "More horrible enormities, and swelling sins,... | |
| Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson - Dissertations, Academic - 1903 - 300 pages
...prodigalitie and folly." Then with the syllogistic reasoning, "the cause of plagues is sinne, . . . and the cause of sinne are playes: therefore the cause of plagues are playes," an assertion that found ready belief, he continued: "More horrible enormities, and swelling sins, are... | |
| Henry Morley - English literature - 1912 - 1416 pages
...forbidden because of the plague. I like the policy well, if it hold still; for a disease is but botched or patched up that is not cured in the cause, and the cause of plagues is sin, if you look to it well; and the cause of sin are plays : therefore the cause of plagues are plays."... | |
| Drama - 1927 - 648 pages
...entertainment was the root of all evil, as a preacher explained: "The cause of plagues is sinne, if you look to it well: and the cause of sinne are playes; therefore the cause of plagues are playes."' From, denouncing the theatre the Puritans passed to denouncing other entertainments; from denouncing... | |
| Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1910 - 558 pages
...writers against the stage unanswerably put the matter: ' the cause of plagues is sinne, if you look to it well: and the cause of sinne are playes: therefore the cause of plagues are playes 2 .' Turning from the theological to the moral aspect of the matter, we may notice that here, too,... | |
| Leeds Barroll - Drama - 1998 - 440 pages
...New Shakespeare Society, 1877-79) 144-45. 21. White argues that "the cause of plagues is sinne . . . and the cause of sinne are playes: therefore the cause of plagues are playes." For White, the devastation caused by the plague joins with the moral destructiveness of theater, making... | |
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