 It strange, dear author, yet it true is, That, down from Pharamond to Louis, All covet life, yet call it pain: All feel the ill, yet shun the cure: Can sense this paradox endure? Resolve me, Cambray, or Fontaine. The man in graver tragic known (Though...  Narrative of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., - Page 330by John Gibson Lockhart - 1848Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...preach. POPE. Oh, great restorer of the good old stage, Preacher at once, and zany, of thy age. POPE. The man in graver tragic known, Though his best part...loads the scene, Unwilling to retire, though weary. PRIOR. Next, Comedy appear'd, with great applause. Till her licentious and abusive tongue Waken'd the... | |
 | Christianity - 1888 - 438 pages
...the speaker applied them to himself. This is the last stanza : " The Man in graver Tragic known (Tho' his best Part long since was done) Still on the Stage...the Jest still loads the Scene, Unwilling to retire, tho' Weary." But the crown of Prior's achievements is certainly the poem " To a Child of Quality,"... | |
 | Matthew Prior - English poetry - 1889 - 326 pages
...speaker applied them to himself. Here is the closing stanza : " The Man in graver Tragic known (Tho' his best Part long since was done) Still on the Stage...the Jest still loads the Scene, Unwilling to retire, tho' Weary." * But the crown of Prior's achievement is certainly the poem " To a Child of Quality,"... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English poetry - 1891 - 312 pages
...feel the ill, yet shun the cure : Can sense this paradox endure ? Resolve me, Cambray or Fontaine. The man in graver tragic known, (Though his best part...the Harlequin, After the jest still loads the scene, A PARAPHRASE FROM THE FRENCH IN grey-hair'd Celia's wither'd arms As mighty Lewis lay, She cry'd, '... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1894 - 412 pages
...they blessed him by name. He was touched, and quoted a long passage from Prior: — And he who played the harlequin, After the jest still loads the scene, Unwilling to retire, though weary. On the following day they visited Castle Dangerous, and the Douglas monuments in the deserted church.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1894 - 798 pages
...they blessed him by name. He was touched, and quoted a long passage from Prior: — And he who played the harlequin, After the jest still loads the scene, Unwilling to retire, though weary, On the following day they visited Castle Dangerous, and the Douglas monuments in the deserted church.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...preach. POPE. Oh, great restorer of the good old stage, Preacher at once, and zany, of thy age. POPE. The man in graver tragic known, Though his best part...loads the scene, Unwilling to retire, though weary. PRIOR. Next, Comedy appear'd, with great applnuse, Till her licentious and abusive tongue Waken'd the... | |
 | Austin Dobson - England - 1896 - 390 pages
...speaker applied them to himself. Here is the last stanza : • — ' The Man in graver Tragic known (Tho' his best Part long since was done) Still on the Stage...the Jest still loads the Scene, Unwilling to retire, tho' weary.' 1 But the crown of Prior's achievement is certainly the poem ' To a Child of Quality,'... | |
 | Austin Dobson - English literature - 1896 - 430 pages
...speaker applied them to himself. . Here is the last stanza : — ' The Man in graver Tragic known (Tho' his best Part long since was done) Still on the Stage...the Jest still loads the Scene, Unwilling to retire, tho' weary.' l But the crown of Prior's achievement is certainly the poem 'To a Child of Quality,'... | |
 | John Dennis - 1896 - 276 pages
...the ill, yet shun the cure ; Can sense this paradox endure ? Resolve me Cambray l or Fontaine. ' " The man in graver tragic known (Though his best part...done), Still on the stage desires to tarry ; And he who played the Harlequin, After the jest still loads the scene, Unwilling to retire, though weary." ' Gay,... | |
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