Profaneness

Profaneness, which is so much an Offence, at once.

A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) Anonymous

How much Profaneness, Leudness, Intemperance, &c. have been introduced by the Army and Navy, and Revenue -- how much servility, Venality And Artifice and Hypocricy, have been introduced among the Ambitious and Avaricious by the british Politicks of the last 10 Years?

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 5 - 6 July 1774 1963

He talkes so much and takes up so much of our Time, and fills it with Trash, Obsceneness, Profaneness, Nonsense and Distraction, that We have no [time] left for rational Amusements or

John Adams diary 15, 30 January 1768, 10 August 1769 - 22 August 1770 1961

Collier published his "Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage," a powerful and effective protest against the depravity of the drama.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage_ (1698) was largely directed against Dryden.

English literary criticism Various

In the year 1698, Jeremy Collier, a distinguished nonjuring clergyman, published _A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

Collier's _Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English

A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) Anonymous

And _Anti-Thunderrs_ arm'd; _Profaneness_ next 900

Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley

Awe, that the least Glymps of Profaneness and Immorality shou'd not dare to appear on the Stage; and this may be done by encouraging none but those who write well: for when a good Poet takes on him to instruct, we need fear no Immodesty; for 'tis impossible in a Regular

A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) Anonymous

The growing indignation was voiced from time to time in published protests, of which the last, in 1698, was the over-zealous but powerful 'Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage' by Jeremy Collier, which carried the more weight because the author was not a Puritan but a High-Church bishop and partisan of the Stuarts.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher