They have obtained their pleasures from other quarters.

Some of these they have found in one species of enjoyment, and others in another.

But those, which they particularly prize, they have found in the enjoyment of domestic happiness; and these pleasures they value next to the pleasures of religion.
[6] "Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise, that has survived the fall! Thou art the nurse of virtue--In thine arms She smiles, appearing, as in truth she is, Heav'n-born, and destin'd to the skies again.
Thou art not known, where pleasure is ador'd, That reeling goddess, with a zoneless waist And wandering eyes, still leaning on the arm Of Novelty, her fickle, frail support; For thou art meek and constant, hating change, And finding, in the calm of truth-tried love, Joys, that her stormy raptures never yield.
Forsaking thee, what shipwreck have we made Of honour, dignity, and fair renown!" [Footnote 6: COWPER.] But if the Quakers have been accustomed to place one of the sources of their pleasures in domestic happiness, they may be supposed to be jealous of every thing that appears to them to be likely to interrupt it.

But they consider dramatic exhibitions, as having this tendency.
These exhibitions, under the influence of plot, dialogue, dress, music, action, and scenery, particularly fascinate.

They excite the person, who has once seen them, to desire them again.