 THE play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow falling, to the prompter's bell : A moment yet the actor stops, And looks around, to say farewell. It is an irksome word and task ; And when he's laughed and said his say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 5141864Full view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 116 pages
...pupils of Birch's ; and I wish a merry Christmas to them, and to all young and old boys. EPILOGUE. THE play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow falling,...farewell. It is an irksome word and task ; And when he 's laughed and said his say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A face that's anything but gay. One... | |
 | 1853 - 800 pages
...of feeling. A more touching .-.train we do not recollect.— [Ed. Sou. Lit. Met*. The play U donc ; the curtain drops, Slow falling, to the prompter's bell ; A moment yet the actor stop«, And looks around to say farewell. It is an irksome word and task ; And when he's laughed and... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1855 - 526 pages
...unkindly this little word of me : Heaven be merciful to us all, sinners as we be ! THE END OF THE PLAY. THE play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow falling...farewell. It is an irksome word and task ; And, when he's laughed and said his say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A face that's anything but gay. One word,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 110 pages
...pupils of Birch's ; and I wish a merry Christmas to them, and to all young and old boys. EPILOGUE. THE play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow falling,...farewell. It is an irksome word and task ; And when he's laughed and said his say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A face that's anything but gay. One word,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 260 pages
...unkindly this little word of me : Heaven be merciful to us all, sinners as we be ! THE END OF THE PLAY. THE play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow falling...farewell. It is an irksome word and task ; And, when he's laughed and said his say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A face that's any thing but gay. One word,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Christmas - 1857 - 290 pages
...Christmas-day ; and so I wish a merry Christmas to all young and old boys. AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS. 45 EPILOGUE. THE play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow falling,...farewell. It is an irksome word and task ; And when he's laughed and said his say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A face that's anything but gay. One word,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...heart, whate'er the meal is THE END OF THE PLAY. TUE play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow fulling to the prompter's bell : A moment yet the actor stops,...farewell. It is an irksome word and task; And, when he's laughed and said his say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A face that's any thing but gay. One word,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...And sit you down and say your grace With thankful heart, whate'er the meal is. THE END OF THE PLAY. THE play is .done ; the curtain drops. Slow falling to the prompter's boll : A moment yet the actor stops, And looks around to say farewell. It is an irksome word and task... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1829 - 530 pages
...heaven's gate Angels within it. , THE END OF THE PLAY [Dr. Birch, 1849 ; Miscellanies, Vol. I, 1855] THE play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's hell : A moment yet the actor stops, And looks around, to say farewell. It is an irksome word and task... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1865 - 562 pages
...here Alone and merry at Forty Year, Dipping my nose in the Gascon wine. THE END OF THE PLAY. ' I *HE play is done ; the curtain drops, •*• Slow falling...farewell. It is an irksome word and task ; And, when he's laughed and said his say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A face that's any thing but gay. One word,... | |
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