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 Songs |
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... Stage 18 Jerry Sneak's , Jeu D'Esprit 19 Billy Whipstitch 20 Alonzo the Brave , and the Fair Imogine 23 Giles Jollop the Grave and Brown Sally Green 25 The Idiot 28 Maid of the Moor 30 An Occasional Prologue 331 Tony Lumpkin's Ramble 34 ...
... Stage 18 Jerry Sneak's , Jeu D'Esprit 19 Billy Whipstitch 20 Alonzo the Brave , and the Fair Imogine 23 Giles Jollop the Grave and Brown Sally Green 25 The Idiot 28 Maid of the Moor 30 An Occasional Prologue 331 Tony Lumpkin's Ramble 34 ...
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... gave him a hint For improving the prisons of hell . THE SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN . The world's a stage - and man has seven ages , So Shakspeare writes , king of dramatic sages , The Seven Ages of Woman . But he forgot to ADDRESSES , ETC. 9.
... gave him a hint For improving the prisons of hell . THE SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN . The world's a stage - and man has seven ages , So Shakspeare writes , king of dramatic sages , The Seven Ages of Woman . But he forgot to ADDRESSES , ETC. 9.
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... stages of domestic life , As child , as sister , parent , friend , and wife , Woman , the source of every fond employ , Softens affliction , and enlivens joy . your What is your boast , male rulers of the land ? How cold and cheerless ...
... stages of domestic life , As child , as sister , parent , friend , and wife , Woman , the source of every fond employ , Softens affliction , and enlivens joy . your What is your boast , male rulers of the land ? How cold and cheerless ...
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... stage , “ And all the men and women merely players . " Thus Shakspeare said , and what can we say ? That life is a droll ' twix't a farce and a play , Where some act extempore , others by rule , Some sly ones play knaves ' parts , but ...
... stage , “ And all the men and women merely players . " Thus Shakspeare said , and what can we say ? That life is a droll ' twix't a farce and a play , Where some act extempore , others by rule , Some sly ones play knaves ' parts , but ...
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... d'ye hear -a ? " Hob a nob , sir , -done - two bumpers of madeira . " Thus would he introduce him on the stage , Had Shakspeare liv'd in this taste - eating age . .... Address on Closing a Theatre . " The sixth ADDRESSES , ETC. 13.
... d'ye hear -a ? " Hob a nob , sir , -done - two bumpers of madeira . " Thus would he introduce him on the stage , Had Shakspeare liv'd in this taste - eating age . .... Address on Closing a Theatre . " The sixth ADDRESSES , ETC. 13.
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Page 136 - 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.
Page 136 - 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.
Page 139 - 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.
Page 134 - 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...
Page 136 - 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...
Page 136 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Page 14 - 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.
Page 135 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire, Hands that the rod of empire might have...
Page 138 - 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...
Page 135 - 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...