...highest entertainments ; but should always rise from them wiser and better than we sat down to them. .J It is one of the most unaccountable things in our...lewdness of our theatre should be so much complained of, and so little redressed. It is to be hoped, that some time or other we may be at, leisure to restrain...

...moral part of the performance"* und an einer ändern Stelle: It's one of the most unaccountable thinga in our age that the lewdness of our theatre should be so rauch complained of, so well exposed and so little redressed. It is to be hoped that some tiine or...

...government, and public worship of its country. Were our plays subject to proper inspections and limitations, we might not only pass away several of our vacant...entertainments ; but should always rise from them wiser ard better than we sat down to them. It is one of the most unaccountable things in our age, that the...

...Government, and Publick Worship of its Country, Were our Plays subject to proper Inspections and Limitations, we might not only pass away several of our vacant Hours in the highest Entertainment; but should always rise from them wiser and better than we sat down to them, It is one...

...Government, and Publick Worship of its Country, Were our Plays subject to proper Inspections and Limitations, we might not only pass away several of our vacant Hours in the highest Entertainment; but should always rise from them wiser and better than we sat down to them, It is one...

...box at the theatre and Congreve, who was placed at some little distance. Addison wrote in 1712: — 'It is one of the most unaccountable things in our...complained of, so well exposed, and so little redressed.' The Spectator, No. 446. See also ante, ADDISON, 123 ». Lady Cowper who, in 1715, with the Princess...

...die sich übrigens fast wie ein in Addison's Stil übertragener Auszug aus der „Short View" liest: „It is one of the most unaccountable things in our...complained of, so well exposed, and so little redressed." Um dieselbe Zeit (1713) vollendete Gilbert Burnet seine „History of bis Own Time", in deren Schlussausführungen...

...') A quite different tone is sounded by Addison in the Spectator of August 1, 1712. We read there: "It is one of the most unaccountable Things in our...complained of, so well exposed, and so little redressed." Whibley is of about the same opinion: "Collier's success was a success of scandal and no more." ')...

...of all the Politer Part of Mankind... Were our plays subject to proper Inspections and Limitations, we might not only pass away several of our vacant Hours in the highest Entertainment; but should always rise from them wiser and better than we sat down to them» (Addison...