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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... heart . But what avails all virtue ! Paffion's guft , Like whirlwinds , drive it from the heart like duft ; When reafon dawns , well may repentance mourn Love , friendship , duty , by the roots up - torn . To footh this fatal vice , the ...
... heart . But what avails all virtue ! Paffion's guft , Like whirlwinds , drive it from the heart like duft ; When reafon dawns , well may repentance mourn Love , friendship , duty , by the roots up - torn . To footh this fatal vice , the ...
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... heart , And make the head the only judging part . The coxcomb author , in his prologue fneers , And infolently every patron jeers ; Tells ye from life his characters he drew , And gives a portrait of himself and you . Draws you a fop of ...
... heart , And make the head the only judging part . The coxcomb author , in his prologue fneers , And infolently every patron jeers ; Tells ye from life his characters he drew , And gives a portrait of himself and you . Draws you a fop of ...
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... heart , " Suppafe there fhould be fomething in her art . " Grave statesmen too would chuckle , should I fay , On fuch a motion , and by fuch a day , They would be fummon'd from their own affairs , To ' tend the nation's more important ...
... heart , " Suppafe there fhould be fomething in her art . " Grave statesmen too would chuckle , should I fay , On fuch a motion , and by fuch a day , They would be fummon'd from their own affairs , To ' tend the nation's more important ...
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... heart . But fancy's pictures float upon the brain , And fhort - liv'd o'er the heart is paffion's reign , Till judgment ftamp her fanction on the whole ,. And fink th ' impreffion deep into the foul.- EPILOGUE TÓ DO U G L A Spoken by Mr ...
... heart . But fancy's pictures float upon the brain , And fhort - liv'd o'er the heart is paffion's reign , Till judgment ftamp her fanction on the whole ,. And fink th ' impreffion deep into the foul.- EPILOGUE TÓ DO U G L A Spoken by Mr ...
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... heart o'er - flow , In gushes pleasure with the tide of woe ; And when its waves retire , like thofe of Nile , They leave behind them fuch a golden foil , That there the virtues without culture grow , There the fweet bloffoms of ...
... heart o'er - flow , In gushes pleasure with the tide of woe ; And when its waves retire , like thofe of Nile , They leave behind them fuch a golden foil , That there the virtues without culture grow , There the fweet bloffoms of ...
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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 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...