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Page 135 - ... tis only her plan to catch, if she can, the giddy and gay, as they go that way, by a production on a new construction : she has baited her trap, in hopes to snap all that may come with a sugar-plum.
Page 135 - ... pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in and now out, with a deal of state, in a figure of eight, without pipe or string, or any such thing ; and now I have writ, in a rhyming fit, what will make you dance, and as you advance, will keep you still, though against your will, dancing away, alert and gay, till you come to an end of what I have penn'd ; which that you may do, ere Madam and you are quite worn out with jigging about, I take my leave, and here you receive a bow profound,...
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Page 134 - I have writ Charity, not for popularity, but as well as I could, in hopes to do good ; and if the Reviewer, should say, " to be sure, the gentleman's Muse wears Methodist shoes, you may know by her pace and talk about grace, that she and her bard have little regard for the taste and fashions, and ruling passions, and...
Page 236 - ... goddess. The house was crowded with hundreds more than it could hold, — with thousands of admiring spectators, that went away without a sight. This extraordinary phenomenon of tragic excellence ! this star of Melpomene ! this comet of the stage ! this sun of the firmament of the Muses ! this moon of blank verse ! this queen and princess of tears ! this...
Page 134 - My very dear Friend — I am going to send, what when you have read, you may scratch your head, and say, I suppose, there's nobody knows whether what I have got be verse or not ; — by the tune and the time, it ought to be rhyme, but if it be, did you ever see, of late or of yore, such a ditty before ? I have writ Charity...
Page 236 - ... blubbered like hungry children crying for their bread and butter; and when the bell rang for music between the acts, the tears ran from the bassoon players...
Page 133 - Dear Mother, — So am I, which prevents his duty being paid to his loving mother by her affectionate son, SAM. FOOTE.
Page 236 - Shakspeare ! this world of weeping clouds ! this Juno of commanding aspects ! this Terpsichore of the curtains and scenes ! this Proserpine of fire and earthquake ! this Katterfelto of wonders ! exceeded expectation, went beyond belief, and soared above all the natural powers of description ! She was nature itself! She was the most exquisite work of art! She was the very daisy, primrose, tuberose...
Page 237 - One hundred and nine ladies fainted, forty-six went into fits, and ninety-five had strong hysterics : the world will scarcely credit the truth when they are told, that fourteen children, five old women...