stage-plays

About 1624 Prynne had begun a book against stage-plays; on 31 May 1630 he obtained a license to print it, and about November 1632 it was published.

AS SEEN ON TV: WILLIAM PRYNNE Toby O'B 2009

About 1624 Prynne had begun a book against stage-plays; on 31 May 1630 he obtained a license to print it, and about November 1632 it was published.

Archive 2009-11-29 Toby O'B 2009

But Sir Condy all this time, and a great while afterwards, was at a terrible nonplus; for he had no liking, not he, to stage-plays, nor to Miss Isabella either — to his mind, as it came out over a bowl of whisky-punch at home, his little Judy

Castle Rackrent 2006

At the time when he left Stratford and went up to London, a great body of stage-plays of all dates and writers existed in manuscript and were in turn produced on the boards.

Representative Men 2006

Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains are all actually performed, like stage-plays, before the pilgrims.

Lay Morals 2005

“I never heard my father speak of stage-plays,” said Lord

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

Of all preaching in the world, (that speaks not stark lies) I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity, and affect them as stage-plays used to do, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of

The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974

We will not question the importance of a Goethe, with his scientific amusements, stage-plays, ducal companionships, and art of taking good care of himself; but we cannot deny at least an equal sanity to the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various

Jerome says [* Epist. xxi ad Damas]: "We see priests forsaking the gospels and the prophets, reading stage-plays, and singing the love songs of pastoral idylls."

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

He will not become good suddenly, as in some stage-plays.

Cromwell Alfred B. Richards