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 11
... Heroes die for love's fweet paffion , And fiery Trials are quite out of fashion . Ye fons of Frailty --- you whom rage devours , For you this night the Mufe exerts her pow'rs ; With crimson hands , pale cheeks , and blood - shot eyes ...
... Heroes die for love's fweet paffion , And fiery Trials are quite out of fashion . Ye fons of Frailty --- you whom rage devours , For you this night the Mufe exerts her pow'rs ; With crimson hands , pale cheeks , and blood - shot eyes ...
Page 23
... Heroes ! -How unlike to thofe , Whofe valour , like their wit , lies only in their clothes ? Such arrant Beaux , so trim , so degagée , That ev'n French Ladies wou'd not run away . They'll huff , indeed , and ftrut , look proud , and ...
... Heroes ! -How unlike to thofe , Whofe valour , like their wit , lies only in their clothes ? Such arrant Beaux , so trim , so degagée , That ev'n French Ladies wou'd not run away . They'll huff , indeed , and ftrut , look proud , and ...
Page 27
... heroes , ftates , and kingdoms rife and fall : So ( with the mighty to compare the fmall- ) Thro ' int'reft , whim , or if you please thro ' fate , We feel commotions in our mimick ftate ; The fock and bufkin fly from ftage to stage ...
... heroes , ftates , and kingdoms rife and fall : So ( with the mighty to compare the fmall- ) Thro ' int'reft , whim , or if you please thro ' fate , We feel commotions in our mimick ftate ; The fock and bufkin fly from ftage to stage ...
Page 29
... hero , her deliverer fprung to light ; A race of hardy , northern fons he led , Guiltlefs of courts , untainted , and unread , Whofe inborn fpirit fpurn'd th ' ignoble fee , Whofe hands fcorn'd bondage , for their hearts were free , Afk ...
... hero , her deliverer fprung to light ; A race of hardy , northern fons he led , Guiltlefs of courts , untainted , and unread , Whofe inborn fpirit fpurn'd th ' ignoble fee , Whofe hands fcorn'd bondage , for their hearts were free , Afk ...
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... heroes all , from virtuous antient Rome ; In thofe far diftant times when Romans knew The fweets of guarded liberty , like you ; And , fafe from ills which force or faction brings , Saw freedom reign beneath the fmile of kings . Yet ...
... heroes all , from virtuous antient Rome ; In thofe far diftant times when Romans knew The fweets of guarded liberty , like you ; And , fafe from ills which force or faction brings , Saw freedom reign beneath the fmile of kings . Yet ...
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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...