The Actor's Budget: Consisting of Monologues, Prologues, Epilogues, and Tales, Serious and Comic : Together with a Rare and Genuine Collection of Theatrical Anecdotes and Comic Songsprinted at the Columbian Press, 1824 - 379 oldal |
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... is liable to be cheated , which by the bye ac- counts for so many young ladies very innocently singing Fly not yet , " when they only intended to chaunt a sober hymn for general edification . < 6 ii . Now although there is no law at Bow.
... is liable to be cheated , which by the bye ac- counts for so many young ladies very innocently singing Fly not yet , " when they only intended to chaunt a sober hymn for general edification . < 6 ii . Now although there is no law at Bow.
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... sings , ( Holding up the flap of his coat , he sings to the tune of " O my Kitten . " ) " Here's papa's nose and features , and here's a Jack - a - dandy ; " Givens a blow to beat me , who'll have some sugar - candy ; " He'll be a man ...
... sings , ( Holding up the flap of his coat , he sings to the tune of " O my Kitten . " ) " Here's papa's nose and features , and here's a Jack - a - dandy ; " Givens a blow to beat me , who'll have some sugar - candy ; " He'll be a man ...
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... sing my funny song ; Pray don't be angry , if a laugh should seize ye , I mean no harm , I only vish to please ye . BILLY WHIPSTITCH ; OR , THE TAILOR'S RAMBLE . A London tailor , as it's said , By buckram , canvas , tape and thread ...
... sing my funny song ; Pray don't be angry , if a laugh should seize ye , I mean no harm , I only vish to please ye . BILLY WHIPSTITCH ; OR , THE TAILOR'S RAMBLE . A London tailor , as it's said , By buckram , canvas , tape and thread ...
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... sings , While graduate Dulness clogs thy wings With mathematic lumber . Thy pinions , next , ( which , while they wave , Fan all our birth - days to the grave , ) I think , ere it was prudent , Ball on'd me , from the schools , to town ...
... sings , While graduate Dulness clogs thy wings With mathematic lumber . Thy pinions , next , ( which , while they wave , Fan all our birth - days to the grave , ) I think , ere it was prudent , Ball on'd me , from the schools , to town ...
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... sing - song house , I'm told , Where foreign notes are chang'd for gold , Some beat , and others kill me . Thou know'st my little winning ways , 1 live by eating modern plays , ( A milk and water diet ; ) But thou would'st starve me ...
... sing - song house , I'm told , Where foreign notes are chang'd for gold , Some beat , and others kill me . Thou know'st my little winning ways , 1 live by eating modern plays , ( A milk and water diet ; ) But thou would'st starve me ...
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The Actor's Budget: Consisting of Monologues, Prologues, Epilogues, and ... William Oxbury Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2018 |
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136. oldal - For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, — Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, 'Oft Have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
136. oldal - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
139. oldal - Scotland's shore. So thick a haze o'erspreads the sky They cannot see the sun on high ; The wind hath blown a gale all day, At evening it hath died away. On the deck the Rover takes his stand, So dark it is they see no land. Quoth Sir Ralph, "It will be lighter soon, For there is the dawn of the rising moon.
134. oldal - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
136. oldal - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their...
136. oldal - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
14. oldal - With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
135. oldal - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire, Hands that the rod of empire might have...
138. oldal - Rover walked his deck, And he fixed his eye on the darker speck. He felt the cheering power of spring ; It made him whistle, it made him sing : His heart was mirthful to excess, But the Rover's mirth was wickedness. His eye was on the Inchcape...
135. oldal - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death...