| Kate Sanborn - English poetry - 1869 - 306 pages
...Garrick, describe him who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man ; As an actor, confessed without rival to shine ; As a wit, if not first, in...his failings, a dupe to his art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colors he spread, And beplastered with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural,... | |
| William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...Garrick — describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. As an actor, confessed without rival to shine ; As a wit, if not first, in...failings — a dupe to his art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread. And beplastered with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 1502 pages
...Garrick, describe me who can ; An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. As an actor, confessed in London, gazing I the strangers, and they at me....possible I might find an infinite fund • ridicule in th beauty, his colours he spread, And beplastered with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was... | |
| Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1870 - 456 pages
...cross over, No countryman living their tricks to discover; Detection her taper shall quench to a spark, And Scotchman meet Scotchman, and cheat in the dark....abridgment of all that was pleasant in man; As an actor, confess'd without rival to shine, As a wit, if not first, in the very first line: Yet, with talents... | |
| John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Karl Young, James Francis Augustine Pyre - English literature - 1910 - 656 pages
...Garrick, describe me who can, >s An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man ; As an actor, contest without rival to shine ; As a wit, if not first, in...failings, a dupe to his art ; Like an ill-judging beauty his colors he spread, 21 And beplastered with rouge his own natural red. ( On the stage he was... | |
| Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...Garrick, describe me who can An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man; As an actor, confessed er that you may take copies or translations, as you...with regret, as I sincerely regret yours; even whi beauty, his colours he spread. And beplastered with rouge his own natural red. 100 On the stage he... | |
| English poetry - 1910 - 524 pages
...Garrick, describe him who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man: As an actor, confess'd without rival to shine ; As a wit, if not first, in...failings — a dupe to his art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was... | |
| William Murison - English language - 1910 - 416 pages
...passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills. 9. As an actor, confessed without rival to shine ; As a wit, if not first, in...heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art. 10. Sisterly, brotherly, Fatherly, motherly, Feelings had changed : Love, by harsh evidence, Thrown... | |
| English poetry - 1910 - 298 pages
...cross over, No countryman living their tricks to discover; Detection her taper shall quench to a spark, And Scotchman meet Scotchman, and cheat in the dark....abridgment of all that was pleasant in man: As an actor, confess'd without rival to shine; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line: Yet, with talents... | |
| English poetry - 1910 - 606 pages
...cross over, No countryman living their tricks to discover; Detection her taper shall quench to a spark, And Scotchman meet Scotchman, and cheat in the dark....abridgment of all that was pleasant in man: As an actor, confess'd without rival to shine; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line: Yet, with talents... | |
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