 ... read This little story; And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As heaven and nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.  Yale Studies in English - Page 2171912Full view - About this book
 | Select collection - Epitaphs - 1806 - 262 pages
...creature. Years he number'd scarce thirteen When Fates turn'd cruel, Yet three filPd Zodiacks had he been The stage's jewel ; And did act (what now we moan) Old men so duly, As, sooth, the Parctc thought him one, He play'd so truly. So, by error to his fate They all consented ; But viewing... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...creature. Years he number'd scarce thirteen When fates turn'd cruel, Yet three fill'd zodiacs had he been The stage's jewel ; And did act, what now we moan,...so duly, As, sooth, the Parcae thought him one, He play'd so truly. in Cynthia's Revels, and in the Poetaster, 1600 and 1601, in which year he probably... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Actors - 1825 - 374 pages
...creature. Years he number'd scarce thirteen, When Fates tura'd cruel. Yet three fill'd Zodiacs had he been The Stage's jewel; And did act (what now we moan) Old men so duly, As, sooth, the Parcse thought him one, He play'd so truly. So, by error, to his fate They all consented ; But viewing... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 382 pages
...creature. Years he number'd scarce thirteen When fates turn'd cruel, Yet three fill'd zodiacs had he been The stage's jewel ; And did act (what now we moan) Old men so duly, As, sooth, the Parcse thought him one, He play'd so truly. So, by error to his fate, They all consented j But viewing... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1828 - 468 pages
...creature. Years he number'd, scarce thirteen When fates turn'd cruel, Yet three fill'd Zodiacs had he been The stage's jewel. And did act, what now we moan, Old men so duly, As sooth, the Pare* thought him one, He play'd so truly. Jonson. % ÎBumb $eal of 6ranto0tr* In the just departed... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1828 - 514 pages
...creature. Years he nnmber'd, scarce thirteen When fates turn'd cruel. Yet three fill'd Zodiacs had he been The stage's jewel. And did act, what now we moan, Old men to duly, As sooth, the Parcne thought him one, He play'd so truly. JOHSOH. of In the just departed... | |
 | William Chambers - Literature - 1837 - 352 pages
...creature. Years he numbered scarce thirteen, When fates turned cruel, Yet three filled Zodiacs had he been The stage's jewel. And did act, what now we moan, Old men so duly, As sooth, the Parcse thought him one, He played so truly. LAPLAND SKATE RUNNERS. The Laplanders are a quiet, good... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1843 - 342 pages
...creature. Years he numbered scarce thirteen, When fates turn'd cruel, Yet three filled zodiacs had he been The stage's jewel ; And did act what now we moan, Old men so duly, That the Parcce thought him one He play'd so truly : So hy error to his fate, They all consented ;... | |
 | Literature - 1896 - 854 pages
...before the court, and Ben Jonson wrote his pitiful epitaph on the poor little player who had acted Old men so duly As, sooth the Parcae thought him one. He played so truly, and in mistaken haste hurried him off the world's stage altogether. The trade in infant prodigies lias... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 340 pages
...creature. Years he numbered scarce thirteen, When fates turn'd cruel, Yet three filled zodiacs had he been The stage's jewel ; And did act what now we moan, Old men so duly, That the Parcce thought him one He play'd so truly : So by error to his fate, They all consented ;... | |
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