Thee, too, whene'er thy cash is spent, Shall wing their flight on parchment pinions. "TWAS winter's reign-" the witching time o'night!" When wizard-spells have pow'r to raise the dead, That, musing upon days of past delight, I sat alone-when all were gone to bed. rubebut; Nec tainen est selite (assuete) tardius orta dies. Ovid. Upon the earth the dying embers fell, Emblem of man, and emblem of his fate, And seem'd, tho' silent, this sad truth to tell, "And thus," I answer'd," sanguine boyhood glows, "And thus, some fair in youth and beauty blooms, "And thus the proud one for a while may shine- Yet And turn to ashes like yon blacken'd coal ! "What then is man?-a vapour from his birth, That lives by puffing-dies away in smoke. And when the shovel lays him in the earth, "The tongues of thousands give his deeds a poke !" P. G. THE SLIGHTED MAID. 'MONG briars, roses blossom wild, As sweet, and still more blooming, The thorn that fester'd in her heart, As strong in the fist as a ditcher and hedger, Says Dick, "That is mere slight of hand, it is plain, J. TO MR. WARD. A BROTHER BARD. DESERTED DIDO fir'd the pyre, and died; PRO. GUILDHALL QUIBBLE. PEACOCK V. PEACOCK, Two law-stationers quarrel'd and got into Chancery, Their trade and litigation, in little seem to vary, Equity's so slow, it seems law-station-ary. Guildhall, March 4, 1809. J. P. S. 1809. MEMORANDA DRAMATICA, DRURY-LANE. Feb. 18. Man and Wife.-Unconscious Counterfeit. 20. Country Girl *.-Blue Beard. 21. Man and Wife.-Unconscious Counterfeit. 23. Circassian Bride +.-Fortune's Frolic. 24. ON THIS DAY THE THEATRE WAS UITERLY DESTROYED BY FIRE. * Catching something of the spirit of Macbeth, who determined to die with harness on his back, Mrs. Jordan seems resolved to die with a frock on her's. In certain parts her age and form combined, render her Miss Peggy most preposterous and unseemly; but it is said, that you need only mess with the Devil to get so used to him, as to see none of his defects; and stupid—no, honest Bull has messed so often with Mrs. Jordan and Peggy, that he can discover nothing of the sort. Constant John still sees all the charms that first captivated him, and she probably continues to figure in the character, for the same reason a strolling player of sixty, once gave for retaining the part of the school-boy-" I did it," said he, "forty years ago, and therefore think I have a right to do it now +." † Another vehicle for music! Would it not be much better for poor Euterpe to go on foot, than to consent to ride in such miserable carriages? When the Vicar of Wakefield's family hinted the propriety of riding Dobbin to church, he answered that walking was a hundred times preferable to such a conveyance—they slighted his admonition, and were laughed at for their pains. Had the Circassian Bride seated herself in a concert-room, she would have been admired (for the music, by Bishop, is excellent); but aiming to mount the stage in the form of a drama, she has missed her step, and fallen so extremely lame, that it may be doubted whether she can ever walk again. Mrs. Mountain, as Rachael, laboured under a severe hoarseness, for which she made her own apology, previously to an excellent bravura song. Bannister, as Blunt, and Smith as Taffrel, were two British sailors: a race of men so interesting on their own element, and so insipid on the Dramatic Censor, Vol. i. p. 457. 1770. |