| Metrical epitaphs - 1868 - 266 páginas
...Reynolds, Burke, and the rest of the party, one or two of which will appear in the following ON GARRICK. 1. To paint fair nature, by divine command, Her magic pencil in his glowing hand — A Shakespeare rose — then, to expand his fame Wide o'er this " breathing world," a Garrick came. Though... | |
| Percy Fitzgerald - 1868 - 520 páginas
...the saddest realities. Going nearer, I found under this harlequin figure the following lines : — " To paint fair nature, by divine command, Her magic pencil in his glowing hand, A Shakespeare rose ; then, to expand his fame Wide o'er the " breathing world," a Garrick came. Though... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1871 - 462 páginas
...saddest realities. Going nearer, I found inscribed under this harlequin figure the following lines : " To paint fair Nature, by divine command Her magic...to expand his fame Wide o'er this breathing world, & Garrick came. Though sunk in death the forms the Poet drew, The Actor's genius bade them breathe... | |
| Westminster abbey - 1872 - 156 páginas
...monument of Garrick is on your right. $Dntlj tansjpt; or, fnrts' Cnnur. |O the memory of DAVID GABRICK, who died in the " year 1779, at the age of sixty-three....magic pencil In his glowing hand — A Shakspeare rose j then, to expand his fame, Wide o'er this ' breathing world,' a Garrick came. Though sunk in death... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1876 - 740 páginas
...saddest realities. Going nearer, I found inscribed under this harlequin figure the following lines : — To paint fair Nature, by divine command, Her magic pencil in his glowing hand, A Shakspere rose : then, to expand his fame Wide o'er this breathing world, a Gar-rick came. Though sunk... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 556 páginas
...unveiled the beauties of Shakspeare's works. " To paint fair nature, by divine command, Her magic pencil m his glowing hand, A Shakspeare rose, — then to expand...Though sunk in death the forms the Poet drew, The Actoi's genius bade them breathe anew : Though, like the Bard himself m night they lay, Immortal Garrick... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1879 - 732 páginas
...following lines: — '•To paint fair Nature, Ъу divino command, Her inn-lc peni-il in his plowing in crowds, but nowhere so absolutely as in a Quakers'...Meeting. — Those first hermits did certainly un mink in death the forms the Poet drew, Tbe Actor's genius bade them breathe anew ; Though, like the... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1879 - 672 páginas
...saddest realities. Going nearer, I found inscribed under this harlequin figure the following lines : — To paint fair Nature, by Divine command, Her magic pencil in his glowing hand, A Shakespeare rose : then, to expand his fame Wide o'er this breathing world, a Garrick came. Though... | |
| Curious epitaphs - 1883 - 208 páginas
...more ! Farewell ! thy sun of life too soon hath set, Garrick's epitaph in Westminster Abbey, leads:— To paint fair Nature by divine command, Her magic pencil in his glowing hand, A SHAKESPEARE rose ; then, to expand his fame Wide o'er the breathing world, a GARRICK came : Tho' sunk... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1884 - 830 páginas
...saddest realities. Going nearer, I found inscribed under this harlequin figure the following lines : — To paint fair Nature, by divine command, Her magic pencil in his glowing hand, A Shakspere rose : then, to expand his fame Wide o'er this breathing world, a Garrick came. Though sunk... | |
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