 ... much of a certain description of the company. No man of delicacy would wish the female part of his family to be exposed to such scenes ; no man of sense would wish to put youth, of the male sex, in the way of such temptation.  The Edinburgh Dramatic Review - Page 1971823Full view - About this book
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 488 pages
...too little of the play, and, in the public boxes, greatly too much of a certain description of the company. No man of delicacy would wish the female...youth, of the male sex, in the way of such temptation. This evil, if not altogether arising from the large size of the theatres, has been so incalculably... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chilvary - 1834 - 424 pages
...too little of the play, and, in the public boxes, greatly too much of a certain description of the company. No man of delicacy would wish the female...youth, of the male sex, in the way of such temptation. This evil, if not altogether arising from the large size of the theatres, has been so incalculably... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 418 pages
...too little of the play, and, in the public boxes, greatly too much of a certain description of the company. No man of delicacy would wish the female...youth, of the male sex, in the way of such temptation. This evil, if not altogether arising from the large size of the theatres, has been so incalculably... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1837 - 936 pages
...loo little of the play, and, in the public boxes, greatly too much of a certain description of the company. No man of delicacy would wish the female part of his family to bo exposed to such scenes ; no man of delicacy would wish to put youth, of the male sex, in the way... | |
 | Thomas Ebenezer Thomas - Sermons, American - 1866 - 148 pages
...intrusion, or at least from the disgusting improprieties to which their neighborhood gives rise. . . . No man of delicacy would wish the female part of his...wish to put youth of the male sex in the way of such temptations." " Unless," he adds, "in the case of strong attraction upon the stage, prostitutes and... | |
 | Baptists - 1837 - 658 pages
...speaks in strong terms of the audacious effrontery of these women at the theatres in London. He says, " No man of delicacy would wish the female part of his...youth of the male sex in the way of such temptation." He states, that, "unless in the case of strong attraction upon the stage, prostitutes and their admirers... | |
 | English periodicals - 1928 - 980 pages
...morals, and their conduct was utterly shameless. Scott, speaking of the contemporary theatre, says : ' No man of delicacy would wish the female part of his...youth of the male sex in the way of such temptation. In London, if we would enjoy our most classical enjoyment, we are braved by vice on the threshold.'... | |
 | Penny Gay - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 220 pages
...too little of the play, and, in the public boxes, greatly too much of a certain description of the company. No man of delicacy would wish the female part of his family to be exposed to such scenes . . .' (p. 392). Austen does not comment on this social problem associated with theatre-going; but... | |
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