| Henry Brodribb Irving - Theater - 1906 - 272 pages
...powerless to confine the public appetite to the plain fare of tragedy and comedy, unable to persuade them To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth and salutary woe. It was in a magnificent attempt to outdo the spectacular triumphs of John Rich at Covent Garden, called... | |
| Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 378 pages
...the follies you decry, As Tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die : T is yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving...age And Truth diffuse her radiance from the Stage." Garrick must have been proud to act under such banner of song as that. The tragedy of Irene came to... | |
| Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 364 pages
...the follies you decry, As Tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die : 'T is yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving...the pomp of Show, For useful Mirth and salutary Woe : 90 Bid scenic Virtue form the rising age And Truth diffuse her radiance from the Stage." Garrick... | |
| Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 528 pages
...commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense ; To chase the charms of Sound, the pomp of Show, 60 For useful Mirth and salutary Woe ; Bid scenic Virtue...age, And Truth diffuse her radiance from the stage. OLIVER GOLDSMITH FROM THE TRAVELLER REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheldt, or... | |
| Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 506 pages
...the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving...Sense; To chase the charms of Sound, the pomp of Show, 60 For useful Mirth and salutary Woe; Bid scenic Virtue form the rising age, And Truth diffuse her... | |
| Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 506 pages
...the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die; 'Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving...; To chase the charms of Sound, the pomp of Show, 60 For useful Mirth and salutary Woe ; Bid scenic Virtue form the rising age, And Truth diffuse her... | |
| Henry Brodribb Irving - Theater - 1907 - 242 pages
...powerless to confine the public appetite to the plain fare of tragedy and comedy, unable to persuade them To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth and salutary woe. It was in a magnificent attempt to outdo the spectacular triumphs of John Rich at Covent Garden, called... | |
| William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 pages
...more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die; Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued nature and reviving...age, And truth diffuse her radiance from the stage, S. yohnson 77- s°"g In Connection with the Shakespeare Jubilee at Stratford upon Avon, September 7,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...the follies you decry, 55 As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die; 'Tis Yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving...the pomp of Show, For useful Mirth and salutary Woe; 60 Bid scenic Virtue form the rising age, And Truth diffuse her radiance from the stage. PREFATORY... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1909 - 562 pages
...reviving Sense; To chase the charms of Sound, the pomp of Show, For useful Mirth and salutary Woe; 60 Bid scenic Virtue form the rising age, And Truth diffuse her radiance from the stage. PREFATORY NOTE ON THE DICTIONARY. NONE of Johnson's works yielded him such return of fame as his Dictionary.... | |
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