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 ... |
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Page 32
... sure to understand , Oh ! think on us what various ills will flow , When great ONES only purchase - what they know . Why laugh at TASTE ! It is a harmless fashion , And quite fubdues each detrimental paffion ; The fair Ones hearts will ...
... sure to understand , Oh ! think on us what various ills will flow , When great ONES only purchase - what they know . Why laugh at TASTE ! It is a harmless fashion , And quite fubdues each detrimental paffion ; The fair Ones hearts will ...
Page 49
... Sure to thofe fcenes fome honour thou'd be paid , Which Cambden patroniz'd , and Shakespear play'd . Nature was nature then , and still survives ; The garb may alter , but the fubftance lives . Lives in this playwhere each may find ...
... Sure to thofe fcenes fome honour thou'd be paid , Which Cambden patroniz'd , and Shakespear play'd . Nature was nature then , and still survives ; The garb may alter , but the fubftance lives . Lives in this playwhere each may find ...
Page 65
... Sure we the old Maggye , as well as the younger , May boast that our liquor is clearer and ftronger ; Of bragging and puffing you make but a jeft , You taste of us both , and will stick at the best ; A race we have had , for your ...
... Sure we the old Maggye , as well as the younger , May boast that our liquor is clearer and ftronger ; Of bragging and puffing you make but a jeft , You taste of us both , and will stick at the best ; A race we have had , for your ...
Page 110
... Sure all our fwearers might be laid afide . No , of fuch tools , our Author has no need , To make his Plot , or make his Play fucceed ; He , of black bills has no prodigious tales , Or Spanish pilgrims caft afhore in ' ales ; Here's not ...
... Sure all our fwearers might be laid afide . No , of fuch tools , our Author has no need , To make his Plot , or make his Play fucceed ; He , of black bills has no prodigious tales , Or Spanish pilgrims caft afhore in ' ales ; Here's not ...
Page 134
... sure , that dish muft please an English nation , Where . Paris cooks have been fo long the fashion . A dame antique of fifty and above , Whofe feeble pulfe ftill beats a march to love , We fet before you next but this cold pye Is ...
... sure , that dish muft please an English nation , Where . Paris cooks have been fo long the fashion . A dame antique of fifty and above , Whofe feeble pulfe ftill beats a march to love , We fet before you next but this cold pye Is ...
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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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Page 311 - 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.
Page 301 - 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...
Page 94 - 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!
Page 130 - And about something make a mighty Pother ; They all go in, and out; and to, and fro...
Page 171 - 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.
Page 300 - Then Jonson came, instructed from the school, To please in method, and invent by rule...
Page 326 - 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.
Page 170 - This night, our wit, the pert apprentice cries, Lies at my feet, I hiss him, and he dies.
Page 22 - 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...
Page 219 - 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...