test+of+virtue
11Ascanio in Alba — K. 111, is a pastoral opera in two parts ( Festa teatrale in due atti ) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Parini.Performance historyIt was first performed at the Teatro Regio Ducal in Milan, on 17 October 1771.Rolesyn …
12trial — 1 test, proof, demonstration (see under PROVE) Analogous words: inspection, examination, scanning, scrutiny (see under SCRUTINIZE): *process, proceeding, procedure 2 Trial, tribulation, affliction, visitation, cross are comparable when they… …
13comédie larmoyante — ▪ French theatre (French: “tearful comedy”), 18th century genre of French sentimental drama, which formed a bridge between the decaying tradition of aristocratic Neoclassical tragedy and the rise of serious bourgeois drama. Such comedies… …
14trial — n. 1. Testing, examination, experiment. 2. Experience, experimental knowledge. 3. Attempt, endeavor, effort, essay, exertion, struggle, aim. 4. Temptation, test of virtue. 5. Test, criterion, proof, touchstone, ordeal, assay. 6. Suffering,… …
15Hugh Nibley — Hugh Winder Nibley Born March 27, 1910(1910 03 27) Portland, Oregon Died February 24, 2005(2005 02 24) (aged 94) Provo, Utah …
16Lothario — is a character in the play The Fair Penitent (1703), by Nicholas Rowe. In the play, Lothario seduces and betrays Calista. The word lothario has thus entered the English language as an eponym: a lothario is a handsome, seductive ladies man.In The… …
17The Old Law — The Old Law, or A New Way to Please You is a seventeenth century tragicomedy written by Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger. It was first published in 1656, but is generally thought to have been written about four decades… …
18Groundling Marsh — was a Canadian children s television series featuring puppets. The only merchandise produced for the show were videos and they are now exceptionally rare and no longer produced. In the United States, it aired on PBS and the Disney Channel. This… …
19drame bourgeois — ▪ French literature type of play that enjoyed brief popularity in France in the late 18th century. Written for and about the middle class and based upon the theories of the French essayist and encyclopaedist Denis Diderot (Diderot, Denis)… …
20UTILITARIANISM — the theory which makes happiness the end of life and the test of virtue, and maintains that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, and wrong as they tend to produce the reverse, a theory characterised by Carlyle,… …
