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... gives this information of Thom . Davies's being driven off the stage by Churchill's satire , on the authority of Dr. Johnson . This Davies was the editor of Dramatic Miscellanies , and of the Life and Works of Lillo . The name of the ...
... gives this information of Thom . Davies's being driven off the stage by Churchill's satire , on the authority of Dr. Johnson . This Davies was the editor of Dramatic Miscellanies , and of the Life and Works of Lillo . The name of the ...
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... give ? In ev'ry age Cash hath been rudely banish'd from the stage ; Monarchs themselves , to grief of ev'ry play'r , Appear as often as their image there : They can't , like candidate for other seat , Pour seas of wine , and mountains ...
... give ? In ev'ry age Cash hath been rudely banish'd from the stage ; Monarchs themselves , to grief of ev'ry play'r , Appear as often as their image there : They can't , like candidate for other seat , Pour seas of wine , and mountains ...
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Thomas Campbell. But what they have they give : could Clive do more , Though for each million he had brought home four ? Shuter keeps open house at Southwark fair , And hopes the friends of humour will be there ; In Smithfield , Yates ...
Thomas Campbell. But what they have they give : could Clive do more , Though for each million he had brought home four ? Shuter keeps open house at Southwark fair , And hopes the friends of humour will be there ; In Smithfield , Yates ...
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... Gives him all merit : that allows him none . Between them both we'll steer the middle course , Nor , loving praise , rob judgment of her force . Just his conceptions , natural and great : His feelings strong , his words enforc'd with ...
... Gives him all merit : that allows him none . Between them both we'll steer the middle course , Nor , loving praise , rob judgment of her force . Just his conceptions , natural and great : His feelings strong , his words enforc'd with ...
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... in his train , He drives impetuous o'er the trembling plain , Shall , at our bidding , quit his lawful prey , And to meek , gentle , gen'rous Peace give way . ROBERT DODSLEY . BORN 1703. - DIED 1764 . It CHARLES CHURCHILL . 25.
... in his train , He drives impetuous o'er the trembling plain , Shall , at our bidding , quit his lawful prey , And to meek , gentle , gen'rous Peace give way . ROBERT DODSLEY . BORN 1703. - DIED 1764 . It CHARLES CHURCHILL . 25.
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Page 284 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 285 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Page 290 - And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Page 291 - That call'd them from their native walks away ; When the poor exiles, every pleasure past, Hung round the bowers, and fondly...
Page 286 - The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned.
Page 191 - Cold is Cadwallo's tongue, That hush'd the stormy main : Brave Urien sleeps upon his craggy bed : Mountains, ye mourn in vain Modred, whose magic song Made huge Plinlimmon bow his cloudtopt head. On dreary Arvon's shore they lie, Smear'd with gore, and ghastly pale : Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by.
Page 440 - Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust.
Page 288 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'T is yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 47 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Page 287 - Thither no more the peasant shall repair, To sweet oblivion of his daily care ; No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale...