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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... Friend , But without Prejudice at least attend . If we are dull , e'en cenfure , but we truft , Satire can ne'er displease you when ' tis just : Nor can we fear a brave , a gen'rous Town Will join to crush us when we're almost down ...
... Friend , But without Prejudice at least attend . If we are dull , e'en cenfure , but we truft , Satire can ne'er displease you when ' tis just : Nor can we fear a brave , a gen'rous Town Will join to crush us when we're almost down ...
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... friends - it goes no farther . - He's a fool . So very claffic , and fo very dull-- His defert island is his own dear skull : " " No foul to make the play house ring , and rattle , No trumpets , thunder , ranting , ftorms , or battle ...
... friends - it goes no farther . - He's a fool . So very claffic , and fo very dull-- His defert island is his own dear skull : " " No foul to make the play house ring , and rattle , No trumpets , thunder , ranting , ftorms , or battle ...
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... friends above , their wives and doxies , Down to Madame , and Monfieur , in the boxes : Now for it , Sirs ! -I beg from top to bottom , You'll keep your features fix'd ' till I have got ' em . First for fine Gentlemen my fancy ftretches ...
... friends above , their wives and doxies , Down to Madame , and Monfieur , in the boxes : Now for it , Sirs ! -I beg from top to bottom , You'll keep your features fix'd ' till I have got ' em . First for fine Gentlemen my fancy ftretches ...
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... friendship , and in love fincere . Love then like glory did each heart inflame , Beauty was virtue , and to win it , fame , Now Lovers lofe their Miftreffes with grace , As at New Market they would lofe a race , Where , if in hopes they ...
... friendship , and in love fincere . Love then like glory did each heart inflame , Beauty was virtue , and to win it , fame , Now Lovers lofe their Miftreffes with grace , As at New Market they would lofe a race , Where , if in hopes they ...
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... friendship , duty , by the roots up - torn . To footh this fatal vice , the flatterer tells In ftormy minds how warmest friendship dwells ; The tree whofe fheltering arms fpread kindly round ,. If light'ning ftruck , lies blafted on the ...
... friendship , duty , by the roots up - torn . To footh this fatal vice , the flatterer tells In ftormy minds how warmest friendship dwells ; The tree whofe fheltering arms fpread kindly round ,. If light'ning ftruck , lies blafted on the ...
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applaufe bard beft boaft breaft Britons caufe charms comic critic damn DAVID GARRICK e'er English EPILOGUE ev'n ev'ry eyes faid fame faſhion fatire fave favour fcenes fcorn fear feem fenfe fhall fhew fhould filk firft flain fmile foes foft folly fome fons fool foon foul fpeak fpirit friends ftage ftand ftate ftill fuccefs fuch fure fweet GARRICK gen'rous give grace Greece heart heroes honeft honour hufbands juft KING Ladies laft laugh Lord Mifs mind mufe muft muſt ne'er night o'er OGUE paffion play pleafe pleaſe pleaſure poet poet's poor pow'r praife praiſe pray PROLOGUE R. B. SHERIDAN reafon rife ſcene ſkill ſpeak Spoken ſtage tafte taſte tears thefe there's theſe thofe thoſe thro to-night tragic Twas uſe virtue WESTO whofe wife worfe wou'd WRITTEN ye fair Zounds то
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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...