A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) And the Occasional Paper No. Ix (1698)
A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) And the Occasional Paper No. Ix (1698)
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They wou'd not serve tokeep up our Souls from sinking under the pleasures of sense, but sounawares betray us into them, by loosning the strength we have toresist, and improving the Charm, that tho' we supposed the wholeConcern of the _Stage_ to set out all Virtuous at first, we cou'd notexpect its continuing long in that primitive State, before it run intosome foolish Excess. For if Mens coming often and many together, onbusiness, or kind and friendly Occasions, is apt to lay a snare intheir Wa...y; Nay if _Societies_ form'd for the very promotion of Virtue;and ti'd to all the Discipline of it, are yet hardly kept from growingirregular: What can we hope from such places of Concourse, whereImagination expects to be rais'd, and the End is Delight? But I doubt we never began so fairly as this, because our present_Corruption_ is greater, than can well be conceiv'd to have sprungfrom a _Root_ that had at first no _Bitterness_ in it. Was there nothing _ill_ in the _Representations_ themselves, yet thereis so much of that by agreement of All, in the Vain _Behaviour ofthose that are there_; that they must needs be very fond of a _Play_, that can bring themselves to sit often and long in such _Company_ forit.
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