 | Walter Savage Landor - 1858 - 280 psl.
...SATIRISTS. WHILE we are frolicking with Flaccus Comes Juvenal to slash and hack us. No. 112. PLAYS. How soon, alas, the hours are over, Counted us out...the sage ! But when we play the fool, how wide The theater expands ; beside, How long the audience sits before us ! How many prompters ! what a chorus... | |
 | John Forster - 1869 - 716 psl.
...me right. In vain my faults ye quote ; 1 write as others wrote On Sunium's height." " Alas, how soon the hours are over Counted us out to play the lover...sits before us ! How many prompters ! what a chorus ! " " Wimbledon has all charms for me ! Per Buceo, I would rather see, Than all the crowds that crowd... | |
 | John Forster - 1869 - 726 psl.
...me right. In vain my faults ye quote; I write as others wrote On Summa V height." " Alas, how soon the hours are over Counted us out to play the lover...to play the sage ! But when we play the fool, how wkle The theatre expands ! beside How long the audience sits before us! How many prompters ! what a... | |
 | John Forster - 1869 - 628 psl.
...others wrote On Sunium's height." " Alas, how soon the hours are over Counted us out to play the lover 1 And how much narrower is the stage Allotted us to play the sage 1 But when we play the fool, how wide The theatre expands ! beside How long the audience sits before... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1874 - 192 psl.
...at every touch, at every tone, A spark of life hath glistened and hath gone. PLAYS. ALAS, how soon the hours are over Counted us out to play the lover...sits before us ! How many prompters ! what a chorus ! THE THREE ROSES. WHEN the buds began to burst, Long ago, with Rose the First I was walking ; joyous... | |
 | 1875 - 432 psl.
...flowers no force can sever ; And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone, forever ! PLAYS. A LAS, how soon the hours are over Counted us out to play the lover ! And how much narrower is the stage Alloted us to play the sage ! But when we play the fool, how wide The theatre expands ! beside, How... | |
 | Charles Henry Jones - 1876 - 424 psl.
...soon the hours are over Counted us out to play the lover I And how much narrower is the stage Alloted us to play the sage ! But when we play the fool, how...The theatre expands ! beside, How long the audience sit before us : How many prompters, what a chorus I 41 MOORE. THE TIME I'VE LOST IN WOOING. r I ^HE... | |
 | Theresa Cornwallis J. West - 1884 - 366 psl.
...night, on the appearance of the early stars in the evening firmament, for fear of scandal ! CHAPTER IV. How soon, alas ! the hours are over, Counted us out...sits before us. How many prompters ! what a chorus ! WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, Plays. WHO is there that cannot remember the first play they ever saw ? The... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1895 - 294 psl.
...terms, in Landor's lines : — Alas ! how soon the hours are over, Counted us out to play the over ; And how much narrower is the stage Allotted us to...when we play the fool, how wide The theatre expands ! Besides, How long the audience sits before us ; How many plaudits ! What a chorus ! But of this the... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 810 psl.
...Counted us out to play the lover t And how much narrower is the stage Allotted us to play the sage t But when we play the fool, how wide The theatre expands...beside, How long the audience sits before us ! How mauy prompters ! what a chorus ! THERE FALLS WITH EVERY WEDDING CHIME THERE falls with every wedding... | |
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Alas, how soon the hours are over Counted us out to play the lover ! And how much narrower is the stage Allotted us to play the sage ! But when we play the fool, how wide, $ The theatre expands ! beside, How long the audience sits before us! How many... 
