 | John Bell - 1792 - 332 Seiten
...readers will care. PROLOGUE. i 0 night we cjme upon a bold design^ To try to please without one borrow' d line; Our plot is new and regularly clear, And not one single tittle from Moliere. O'er buried poets we with caution tread, And parish sextons leave to rob the dead. For you,... | |
 | John Bell - 1797 - 464 Seiten
...will care. PROLOGUE. 1 0 night rue come upon a bold design, To try to please without one borrow' d line ; Our plot is new and regularly clear, And not one single tittle from Moliere. O'er buried poets we with caution tread, And parish sextons leave to rob the dead. For you,... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 670 Seiten
...tending to prove that women had DO souK BOLD STROKE FOR A WIFE. Jfri CENTLirRE. PROLOGUE. TO-NTGHT we come upon a bold design, To try to please without...and regularly clear, And not one single tittle from Moliere. O'er buried poet» we with caution tread, And parish sextons leave to rob the dead. For you,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 666 Seiten
...prove that women bad no gMls> <:• BOLD STROKE FOR A WIFE. CENTLIVRE. PROLOGUE. To-NIGHT we coine upon a bold design, To try to please without one borrow'd...is new, and regularly clear, - And not one single tijtle from Moliere. O'er buried poets we with caution tread, And parish sextons leave to rob the dead.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 666 Seiten
...that women had ne look. BOLD STROKE FOR A WIFE. Mri CENTLIVRE. PROLOGUE. TO-NIGHT we com« upon a bokl and fancy you'll like the project. — Read, read,...Col. [Heads.] " Friend Prim, there is arrived. from Moliere. O'er buried poets we with caution tread, And parish sextons leave to rob the dead. For you,... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - 1825 - 472 Seiten
...performed the part of Alexander the Great in Lee's Ilirul Queens. Prologue to " A Bold Stroke for a Wife." TO-NIGHT we come upon a bold design, To try to please...and regularly clear, And not one single tittle from Moliere. O'er buried poets we with caution tread, And parish sextons leave to rob the dead. For you,... | |
 | 1833 - 828 Seiten
...audiences, at the Theatres Royal of this great metropolis. The lair authoress says, in her Prologue, "To-night we come upon a bold design, To try to please without one borrow "tl line ; Our plot is new and regularly clear, Arid not one single little from Jl/t» Here;... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - 1844 - 432 Seiten
...wrote the prologue herself, but only the first six lines are worth preserving : — " To-night ire come upon a bold design, To try to please without...and regularly clear, And not one single tittle from Moliere. O'er buried poets we with caution tread, And parish sextons leave to rob the dead." " The... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - 1844 - 438 Seiten
...Mrs. Centlivre wrote the prologue herself, but only the first six lines are worth preserving : — " To-night we come upon a bold design, To try to please without one borrow'd line ; Oar plot is new and regalarly clear, And not one single tittle from Moliere. O'er buried poets we... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - 1844 - 484 Seiten
...Mrs. Centlivre wrote the prologue herself, but only the first six lines are worth preserving : — " To-night we come upon a bold design, To try to please without one borrow 'd line ; Our plot is new and regularly clear, And not one single tittle from Molicrc. O'er... | |
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TO-NIGHT we come upon a bold design, To try to please without one borrow'd line ; Our plot is new and regularly clear, And not one single tittle from Moliere. O'er buried poets we with caution tread, And parish sextons leave to rob the dead. 
