Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1835. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... SACRED DRAMAS; CHIEFLY INTENDED FOR YOUNG PERSONS. THE SUBJECTS TAKEN FROM THE BIBLE. All the books of the Bible are either most admirable and exalted pieces of poetry, or the best materials in the world for it. Cowley. 268 TO HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF BEAUFORT, These Sacred Dramas are, with the most perfect respect, inscribed; as, among the many amiable and distinguished qualities which adorn her mind, and add lustre to her rank, her excellence in the maternal character gives a peculiar propriety to her protection of this little work, written with an humHe wish to promote the love of piety and virtue in young persons, by her Grace's most obedient, most obliged, and most humble servant, HANNAH MORE. ADVERTISEMENT. I Am as ready as the most rigid critic to confess, that nothing can be more simple and inartificial than the plans of the following dramas. In the construction of them, I have seldom ventured to introduce any persons * of my own creation: still less did I imagine myself at liberty to invent circumstances. I reflected, with awe, that the place whereon I stood was holy ground. All the latitude I permitted myself was, to make such persons as I selected act under such circumstances as I found, and express such sentiments as, in my humble judgment, appeared not unnatural to their characters and situations.--Some of the speeches are so long as to retard the action; for I rather aspired after moral instruction than the purity of dramatic composition. I am aware that it may be brought as an objection, that I have now and then made my Jewish characters speak too much like Christians, as it may be questioned whether I have not, occasionally, ascribed to them a degree of light and knowledge greater than they, probably, had the means of possessing; but I was more a...
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