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 50
... laws . If we but live to fee that joyful day , Then of the English ftage , reviv'd we may , As of your honour now , with proper application , fay . So when the Gallick fox by fraud of peace , Had lull'd the British lion into ease , And ...
... laws . If we but live to fee that joyful day , Then of the English ftage , reviv'd we may , As of your honour now , with proper application , fay . So when the Gallick fox by fraud of peace , Had lull'd the British lion into ease , And ...
Page 73
... laws repeal , Warm all her fex's bofoms to rebel , And only , with Platonic raptures , fwell . Long the refifts the proper ufe of beauty , But flesh and blood reduce the dame to duty . A Coxcomb too of modern ftamp we fhow , A wit but ...
... laws repeal , Warm all her fex's bofoms to rebel , And only , with Platonic raptures , fwell . Long the refifts the proper ufe of beauty , But flesh and blood reduce the dame to duty . A Coxcomb too of modern ftamp we fhow , A wit but ...
Page 75
... another word . Turn to that hall where juftice wields her fword : Think in what narrow limits you would draw , By this profcription , all the fons of law : E 2 For For ' tis the fix'd , determin'd rule of courts THEATRICAL BOUQUET . 75.
... another word . Turn to that hall where juftice wields her fword : Think in what narrow limits you would draw , By this profcription , all the fons of law : E 2 For For ' tis the fix'd , determin'd rule of courts THEATRICAL BOUQUET . 75.
Page 76
... laws , Let us examine what would be the cafe : Why , many a great man would be out of place . O. Wild . ' Twould many a virtuous character restore . M. Gr . But take a character from many more . O. Wild . Tho ' on the fide of bad the ...
... laws , Let us examine what would be the cafe : Why , many a great man would be out of place . O. Wild . ' Twould many a virtuous character restore . M. Gr . But take a character from many more . O. Wild . Tho ' on the fide of bad the ...
Page 84
... laws ! When doubt and fear to disconcert him serve , Throb in each pulfe , and feel along the nerve , How can the handkerchief poffefs his mind ? Or how fhall grace and character be join'd ! Hard is his lot in this politer age , Who ...
... laws ! When doubt and fear to disconcert him serve , Throb in each pulfe , and feel along the nerve , How can the handkerchief poffefs his mind ? Or how fhall grace and character be join'd ! Hard is his lot in this politer age , Who ...
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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...