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 10
Some of you fickle Patriots I shall pass , Such brittle beings , will be best on glass
. Now Courtiers you --- looks meant your thoughts to smother , Hands fixt on one
thing - eyes upon another ; For Politicians , I have no dark tints , Such clouded ...
Some of you fickle Patriots I shall pass , Such brittle beings , will be best on glass
. Now Courtiers you --- looks meant your thoughts to smother , Hands fixt on one
thing - eyes upon another ; For Politicians , I have no dark tints , Such clouded ...
Page 31
Authors have ever in a canting strain Begg'd mercy for the bantling of their brain :
That you , kind nurse , wou'd fondle't on your lap , And rear it with applause , that
best of papThus Babes have in their cradles ' scap'd a blow , Though lame and ...
Authors have ever in a canting strain Begg'd mercy for the bantling of their brain :
That you , kind nurse , wou'd fondle't on your lap , And rear it with applause , that
best of papThus Babes have in their cradles ' scap'd a blow , Though lame and ...
Page 57
... Which wont fail to procure me custom enough : " That a Lady from Paris is
lately arriv'd , " Who with exquisite art has nicely contriv'd “ The best paint for the
face , -the best palle for the 6 hands , " A water for freckles , for flushings , and
tans .
... Which wont fail to procure me custom enough : " That a Lady from Paris is
lately arriv'd , " Who with exquisite art has nicely contriv'd “ The best paint for the
face , -the best palle for the 6 hands , " A water for freckles , for flushings , and
tans .
Page 169
O learn , ye Fair , if this same madness spreads , Not to hold up , but to keep
down your heads : Be not misled by strange fantastic art , But in your dress let
Nature take some part ; Her skill alone a lasting pow'r insures , And best can
ornament ...
O learn , ye Fair , if this same madness spreads , Not to hold up , but to keep
down your heads : Be not misled by strange fantastic art , But in your dress let
Nature take some part ; Her skill alone a lasting pow'r insures , And best can
ornament ...
Page 182
Do laugh , pray laugh - ' tis your best cure when ill , The grand specifick ,
universal pill ! What would I give to set the tide a - going , A spring - tide in your
heart with joy o'erflowing ! No superficial skin - deep mirth - all from withinLaugh
till your ...
Do laugh , pray laugh - ' tis your best cure when ill , The grand specifick ,
universal pill ! What would I give to set the tide a - going , A spring - tide in your
heart with joy o'erflowing ! No superficial skin - deep mirth - all from withinLaugh
till your ...
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Page 309 - 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 299 - 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 92 - 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 128 - And about something make a mighty Pother ; They all go in, and out; and to, and fro...
Page 169 - 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 298 - Then Jonson came, instructed from the school, To please in method, and invent by rule...
Page 324 - 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 168 - This night, our wit, the pert apprentice cries, Lies at my feet, I hiss him, and he dies.
Page 20 - 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 217 - 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...
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| Title | 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 ... |
| Publisher | T. Lowndes, 1780 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 28 Nov 2006 |
| Length | 337 pages |
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