Odes, Lyrical Ballads, and Poems on Various Occasionsauthor, 1809 - 311 pages |
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Odes, Lyrical Ballads, and Poems on Several Occasions Stephen George Kemble No preview available - 2019 |
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actor ADDRESS arms Bacchus bard Batavia Behold bless bliss blooming brave breast Britannia Britons Buttermere charm courser Coventry cries Derry dream e'en e'er envied eyes fade fairest in heaven Falstaff fame fate feel flower France gard'ning genius Give grace grateful grief guinea hail happy Hark heard Hearts of oak honour hope huzza KEMBLE King kiss land live Lord loud lyre LYRICAL BALLADS maid mind Momus morn mourn mummers muse namby pamby ne'er never nice little island night noble o'er Oh tis Oran Palemon peace PELEUS Percy poor praise proclaim Robin Gray SCARBRO scene Shakespeare shame shew sigh sing Skull-club smile SONG soon sorrow soul sweet tale tears thee thou tis a nice toil Tol lol truth twas Virginia virtue Volunteers wave weep whene'er Whilst wretched youth
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Page 91 - WE know not how our play may pass this stage, But by the best of poets in that age The Malta- Jew had being and was made ; And he then by the best of actors play'd: In Hero and Leander one did gain A lasting memory ; in Tamburlaine, This Jew, with others many, th...
Page 27 - And hither in a broad-wheel'd waggon brought him ; For in a chaise the varlet ne'er could enter, And no mail-coach on such a fare would venture.
Page 142 - Heart of oak are our men, We always are ready : Steady, boys, steady ! We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again.
Page 44 - Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire ; Threaten the threatener and outface the brow Of bragging horror: so shall inferior eyes, 50 That borrow their behaviours from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.
Page 78 - Language (nor perhaps in any) that is in any degree answerable to the Idea that I conceive of it. And I shall be ambitious of no other fruit from this weak and imperfect attempt of mine, but the opening of a way to the courage and industry of some other persons, who may be better able to perform it throughly and successfully.
Page 126 - Romans endeavour'd our country to gain ; But our ancestors fought, and they fought not in vain. Such is our love of liberty, our country, and our laws, That, like our ancestors of old, we'll stand in freedom's cause : We'll bravely fight, like heroes bold, for honour and applause, And defy the French, with all their arts, to alter our laws.
Page 28 - twas said of Macklin in the Jew, ' This is the very Falstatf Shakspeare drew." To you, with diffidence, he bids me say, Should you approve, you may command his stay, To lie and swagger here another day. If not, to better men he'll leave his sack, And go as ballast, in a collier, back.
Page 27 - And no mail coach on such a fare would venture. Blest with unwieldiness (at least), his size Will favour find in every critic's eyes ; And should his humour, and his mimic art, Bear due proportion to his outward part,. — As once 'twas said of Macklin, in the Jew, — This is the very Falstaff Shakespeare drew.
Page 91 - This Jew, with others many, th' other wan The attribute of peerless, being a man Whom we may rank with (doing no one wrong) Proteus for shapes, and Roscius for a tongue...
Page 27 - But all good honest flesh and blood and bone, And weighing, more or less, some thirty stone. Upon the northern coast by chance we caught him And hither in a...