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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... folly , To chace away celeftial melancholy . AN HISTORICAL EPILOGUE то THE BR A OTHE By the AUTHOR . R. S. N Epilogue , through cuftom , is your right , But ne'er perhaps was needful till this night : To night the virtuous falls , the ...
... folly , To chace away celeftial melancholy . AN HISTORICAL EPILOGUE то THE BR A OTHE By the AUTHOR . R. S. N Epilogue , through cuftom , is your right , But ne'er perhaps was needful till this night : To night the virtuous falls , the ...
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... folly's bondage , and be wife : Once more let virtue , dignity be priz'd , Nor copy what your ancestors defpis'd . Each falfe refinement ftudy to disdain , And harden into manhood back again : So fhall our Britain's honours mount on ...
... folly's bondage , and be wife : Once more let virtue , dignity be priz'd , Nor copy what your ancestors defpis'd . Each falfe refinement ftudy to disdain , And harden into manhood back again : So fhall our Britain's honours mount on ...
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... folly and vice ,, Compos'd by themfelves - and retail'd at half price ! Our Poet to - night - Arrah , joys , a dear Honey ! Comes from Ireland to pocket your fweet British money- Nay , brings in a Scofman - becaufe ' tis the fashion ...
... folly and vice ,, Compos'd by themfelves - and retail'd at half price ! Our Poet to - night - Arrah , joys , a dear Honey ! Comes from Ireland to pocket your fweet British money- Nay , brings in a Scofman - becaufe ' tis the fashion ...
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... folly in the age : Happy the father , fifter , mother , wife , Who prize a fon's , a brother's , husband's life , Should we dethrone the tyrant , whofe caprice So oft endangers and deftroys their peace ; Whofe fell defpotic fway doth ev ...
... folly in the age : Happy the father , fifter , mother , wife , Who prize a fon's , a brother's , husband's life , Should we dethrone the tyrant , whofe caprice So oft endangers and deftroys their peace ; Whofe fell defpotic fway doth ev ...
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... folly is at hand ; Learning is better far than houfe and land . Let not your virtue trip , who trips may stumble , And virtue is not virtue , if he tumble I give it up -morals won'rdɔ for me ; To make you laugh , I must play tragedy ...
... folly is at hand ; Learning is better far than houfe and land . Let not your virtue trip , who trips may stumble , And virtue is not virtue , if he tumble I give it up -morals won'rdɔ for me ; To make you laugh , I must play tragedy ...
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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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