 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 sider
...Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting ; 'Twas only that when he was off he was acting. * The Rev. Dr. Dodd, preacher at the Magdalen. t Dr. Kenrick retd lectures at the Devil- tavern, under... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 sider
...line : an excellentheart, upe to his art. colours he spread, is own natural red. simple, affecting; was off he was acting. With no reason on earth to go out of his way, Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly He turn'd and he varied full ten times a day : sick If... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 sider
...Like an ill judging beauty, his colours he spread, And be-plaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting ; 'Twas only that when he was offhe was acting. With no reason on earth to go out of his way, He rurn'd and he varied full ten times... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 sider
...like an ill- judged beauty, his colours he spread. And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting ; 'Twas...acting. With no reason on earth to go out of his way, He turn'd and he varied full ten times a-day ; Though secure of our hearts, yet confounde'dly sick If... | |
 | Steam boat companion - 1824 - 228 sider
...beauty, his colours he spread And beplaster'd with rouge, bis own natural red. On the stage he was easy, simple, affecting, Twas only that when he was off,...With no reason on earth, to go out of his way, He tnrn'd, and he varied full ten times a day; Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundly sicfe, If they... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 sider
...rouge, his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'Twas only that, гv hen aven'sownthundersshook the world below, And play'd the God an engine on his turn'd and he varied full ten times a day: Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick, If they... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 sider
...Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting ; 'Twas...of his way, He turned and he varied full ten times a-day : Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and... | |
 | 1825 - 668 sider
...of that name, but the avw iroXurpoirot, the shuffling avien of Homer) down to little Davy Garrick, Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick, If they were not his own by finessing and trick, have had a touch of this quality. Nay, even Prometheus himself, the Pagan antetype of providence, put... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 160 sider
...own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting ; 'Twas only that when he was ofl' he was acting. With no reason on earth to go out of his way, He turn'd and he varied full ten times a day : Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 sider
...red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affeeting ; 'Twas only that, when he was off, he was aeting. e. Wel eoude he knowe a draught turn'd and he varied full ten times a day : Though seeure of our hearts, yet eonfoundedly siek, If... | |
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As a wit, if not first, in the very first line: Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his 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... 
