Ascension, but he does not clearly show how this was done. " These extracts will allow us to figure to ourselves the scene and the performance of Cornish Mystery-plays : the bare granite plain of St. Just, in view of Cape Cornwall, and of the transparent... Archaeologia Cambrensis - Seite 1571860Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1859 - 914 Seiten
...Chureh-town, and must have been seen by many of our readers. They will agree with Mr. Norris that " the bare granite plain of St. Just, in view of Cape...that magnificent headland, would be a fit theatre for what in those days of simplicity would appear a serious presentation of the great History of the Creation,... | |
| Edwin Norris - 1859 - 558 Seiten
...representing Hell, and that in the drama of the Resurrection it might have served for the Grave. The trench he conjectures to have aided in representing the Ascension, but he does not clearly shew how this was done. These extracts will allow us to figure to ourselves the scene and the performance... | |
| Thomas Clifton Paris - 1865 - 514 Seiten
...itself is much filled up. It was here that " miracle plays " were performed in Cornish (see Introd.) " The bare granite plain of St. Just, in view of Cape...magnificent headland, would be a fit theatre for the extiibition of what in those days of simplicity would appear a serious presentation of the general... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1882 - 300 Seiten
...itself is much filled up. It was here that " miracle plays" wore performed in Curnish (see Introd.) " The bare granite plain of St. Just, in view of Cape Cornwall, nnd of the transparent sea which beats against that magnificent headland, would be a fit theatre for... | |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - 412 Seiten
...would like to give life again, if only for a day, to the picture which Mr. Norris conjures up : — " The bare granite plain of St. Just, in view of Cape...sea which beats against that magnificent headland. . . . The mighty gathering of people from many miles around hardly showing like a crowd in that extended... | |
| Charles Mills Gayley - 1907 - 436 Seiten
...representing Hell, and that in the drama of the Resurrection it might have served for the Grave. The trench he conjectures to have aided in representing the Ascension, but he does not clearly shew how this was done." Returning to the vehicle of two stages, we find from the inventory of the... | |
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