...account of it (composed a few years since), with which this section shall be concluded. " In 1698, Collier published his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, a book which threw the whole literary world into commotion, but which is now much less read than it...

...account of it (composed a few years since), with which this section shall be concluded. " In 1698, Collier published his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, a book which threw the whole literary world into commotion, but which is now much less read than it...

...differed little from those which are now held by Dr. Pusey and Mr. Newman.' ' In 1698,' says Macaulay, ' Collier published his " Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage," a book which threw the whole literary world into commotion, but which is now much less read than it...

...hereditary right, came forward as the champion of decency, the battle was already half won. In 1698, Collier published his " Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage," a book which threw the whole literary world into commotion, but which is now much less read than it...

...hereditary right, came forward as the champion of decency, the battle was already half won. In 1698, Collier published his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, a book which threw the whole literary world into commotion, but which is now much less read than it...

...hereditary right, came forward as the champion of decency, the battle was already half won. In 1698, Collier published his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, a book which threw the whole literary world into commotion, but which is now much less read than it...

...height, it was only necessary that some literary reformer should appear. Accordingly, no sooner had Jeremy Collier published his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, than public opinion took the side of virtue. In vain did Congreve, and other dramatists, try to defend...

...hereditary right, came forward as the champion of decency, the battle was already half won. In 1698, Collier published his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, a book which threw the whole literary world into commotion, but which is now much less read than it...

...French manners and fashions. In his Marriage a lor Mode, he satirizes this prevailing folly. In 1698 Collier published his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, and whatever are the merits or the faults of the book, it had certainly a most powerful effect on succeeding...

...extravagantly eulogizes. 297. In 1698, JEREMY COLLIER (1650-1726), an ardent, nonjuring clergyman, published his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Staffs. This pamphlet was written with extraordinary fire, wit, and energy; and the evil which it combated...