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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... Poet as much excelled the Actor in the one , as the Ador excelled the Poet in the other ; in his own excellence each equally inimitable ! To fay this , of Mr. GARRICK , to himself , may carry with it the appearance of adulation ; but ...
... Poet as much excelled the Actor in the one , as the Ador excelled the Poet in the other ; in his own excellence each equally inimitable ! To fay this , of Mr. GARRICK , to himself , may carry with it the appearance of adulation ; but ...
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... Poets be dull in dedications ! Dulness in thefe to wit prefer- But there indeed you seldom err . In Prologues , Prefaces , be flat ! A filver button fpoils your hat . A thread - bare coat might jokes efcape , Did not the blockheads lace ...
... Poets be dull in dedications ! Dulness in thefe to wit prefer- But there indeed you seldom err . In Prologues , Prefaces , be flat ! A filver button fpoils your hat . A thread - bare coat might jokes efcape , Did not the blockheads lace ...
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... Poet . LL , all fhall out - all that I know and feel I will by heav'n - to higher pow'rs appeal ! Behold bard ! -no ... poets , players , managers and all ! - B 2 Thefe These fools within here , fwear that I'm in liquer- THEATRICAL BOUQUET .
... Poet . LL , all fhall out - all that I know and feel I will by heav'n - to higher pow'rs appeal ! Behold bard ! -no ... poets , players , managers and all ! - B 2 Thefe These fools within here , fwear that I'm in liquer- THEATRICAL BOUQUET .
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... buskins make a giant , ev'n of me . No features then the poet's mind would trace , But one blank vizor blot out all the face . O ! glo- O ! glorious times , when actors thus could strike 6 THEATRICAL BOUQUET . PROLOGUE ...
... buskins make a giant , ev'n of me . No features then the poet's mind would trace , But one blank vizor blot out all the face . O ! glo- O ! glorious times , when actors thus could strike 6 THEATRICAL BOUQUET . PROLOGUE ...
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... poet for the play'r . Their's was the skill , with honeft help of art , To win , by juft degrees , the yielding heart . What if our Shakespeare claims the magic throne , And in one inftant makes us all his own : They differ only in the ...
... poet for the play'r . Their's was the skill , with honeft help of art , To win , by juft degrees , the yielding heart . What if our Shakespeare claims the magic throne , And in one inftant makes us all his own : They differ only in 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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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...