 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1916 - 534 pages
...twenty years. "Public sports do not well agree with public calamities, nor public stage plays with the seasons of humiliation, this being an exercise of...being spectacles of pleasure, too commonly expressing lascivious mirth and levity." The audiences that went to many of these later plays found neither morality... | |
 | Edmund Kerchever Chambers - 1923 - 444 pages
...whereas publike Sports doe not well agree with publike Calamities, nor publike Stage-playes with the Seasons of Humiliation, this being an Exercise of...being Spectacles of pleasure, too commonly expressing laciuious Mirth and Levitie : It is therefore thought fit, and Ordeined by the Lords and Commons in... | |
 | Sheldon Cheney, Edith Juliet Rich Isaacs - 1927 - 542 pages
...because, they said : Sports doe not well agree with publike Calamities, nor publike Stage-playes with the Seasons of Humiliation, this being an Exercise of...and pious solemnity, and the other being Spectacles too commonly expressing lacivious Mirth and Levitie. And it is recorded also that once even America... | |
 | D. M. E. Habbema - 1928 - 226 pages
...doe not well agree with publike Calamities, nor publike stageplayes with the Seasons of Humiliations, this being an Exercise of sad and pious solemnity,...expressing lacivious mirth and Levitie : It is therefore thought fit, and Ordeined by the Lords and Commons in this Parliament Assembled, that while these sad... | |
 | Alfred Harbage - 1936 - 320 pages
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 | Alfred Harbage - 1936 - 322 pages
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 | Maggs Bros - 1948 - 166 pages
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... 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... 
