The Theatrical Bouquet: Containing an Alphabetical Arrangement of the Prologues and Epilogues, which Have Been Published by Distinguished Wits, from the Time that Colley Cibber First Came on the Stage to the Present Year ...T. Lowndes, 1780 - 337 oldal |
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19. oldal
... sense , To raise a laughter at the Fair's expence . What method fhall we choose your taste to hit ? Will no one lend our Bard a little wit ? Thank ye , kind fouls , I'll take it from the pit . The piece concluded , and the curtain down ...
... sense , To raise a laughter at the Fair's expence . What method fhall we choose your taste to hit ? Will no one lend our Bard a little wit ? Thank ye , kind fouls , I'll take it from the pit . The piece concluded , and the curtain down ...
26. oldal
... sense , And then the price we take - you'll all abuse it , So low , fo unlike Op'ras --- but excuse it , We'll mend that fault , whenever you fhall chufe it . Our laft mifchance , and worfe than all the rest , Which turns the whole ...
... sense , And then the price we take - you'll all abuse it , So low , fo unlike Op'ras --- but excuse it , We'll mend that fault , whenever you fhall chufe it . Our laft mifchance , and worfe than all the rest , Which turns the whole ...
91. oldal
... sense ; Perfuade an audience that a play has merit , Without a fingle air to give it fpirit ; ' Tis fo much out of character - so wrong- No Prologue , fir , for me , -unlefs in Song . The fame ( quoth I ) you poets reap , And all your ...
... sense ; Perfuade an audience that a play has merit , Without a fingle air to give it fpirit ; ' Tis fo much out of character - so wrong- No Prologue , fir , for me , -unlefs in Song . The fame ( quoth I ) you poets reap , And all your ...
116. oldal
... sense or shame ; Wear ruffs , or gauze - But let your skill be fuch , Rather to fhew too little , than too much . As for your Valour - here my lips I clofe Let those who beft have prov'd it - fpeak - Your foes , Your Morals , Church ...
... sense or shame ; Wear ruffs , or gauze - But let your skill be fuch , Rather to fhew too little , than too much . As for your Valour - here my lips I clofe Let those who beft have prov'd it - fpeak - Your foes , Your Morals , Church ...
143. oldal
... sense meet rarely that disaster ; Women take pride , where merit is their master : Nay , fhe that with a weak man wifely lives , Will feem t ' obey the due commands he gives ! Happy obedience is no more a wonder , When men are men , and ...
... sense meet rarely that disaster ; Women take pride , where merit is their master : Nay , fhe that with a weak man wifely lives , Will feem t ' obey the due commands he gives ! Happy obedience is no more a wonder , When men are men , and ...
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311. oldal - To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took his way ; The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day.
301. oldal - The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry...
94. oldal - The welcome visitors' approach denote; Farewell all quality of high .renown, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious town! Farewell! your revels I partake no more, And Lady Teazle's occupation's o'er!
130. oldal - And about something make a mighty Pother ; They all go in, and out; and to, and fro...
171. oldal - The painter dead, yet still he charms the eye; While England lives, his fame can never die: But he who struts his hour upon the stage, Can scarce extend his fame for half an age; Nor pen nor pencil can the actor save, The art, and artist, share one common grave.
300. oldal - Then Jonson came, instructed from the school, To please in method, and invent by rule...
326. oldal - Throw it behind the fire, and never more Let that vile paper come within my door." Thus at our friends we laugh, who feel the dart; To reach our feelings, we ourselves must smart. Is our young bard so young, to think that he Can stop the full spring-tide of calumny? Knows he the world so little, and its trade? Alas! the devil's sooner raised than laid.
170. oldal - This night, our wit, the pert apprentice cries, Lies at my feet, I hiss him, and he dies.
22. oldal - Rome swift thunder flew, And headlong from his throne the tyrant threw : Thrown headlong down, by Rome in triumph led, For this night's deed, his perjur'd bosom bled. His brother's ghost each moment made him start, And all his father's anguish rent his heart. "When rob'd in black his children round him hung...
219. oldal - Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept. Our author...