14. When far from thee [ bide, In dreams still at thy side I've talk'd to thee; 15. And when I woke, I sigh'd Myself alone to see. From the German - TAYLOR. We must part awhile; A few short months-tho' short, they will be long Without thy dear society: but yet We must endure it, and our love will be The fonder after parting-it will grow 16. Oh Absence! by thy stern decree, JAMES G. PERCIVAL. How many a heart, once light and free, ACTION. J. T. WATSON. 1. Whilst timorous knowledge stands considering, DANIEL. 2. Good actions crown themselves with lasting bays; Who well deserves needs not another's praise. HEATH. 3. If thou dost ill, the joy fades, not the pains; If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains. G. HERBERT. 1. If it were done, when 't is done, then, 't is well That it were done quickly. SHAKSPEARE. 2. Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harm. SHAKSPEARE. 3. Let's take the instant by the forward top; 4. 5. How slow the time To the warm soul, that, in the very instant The keen spirit SHAKSPEARE. Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thoughts THOMSON. Plans and performs, resolves and executes! HANNAH MORE. 6. My days, though few, have pass'd below BYRON'S Giaour. 7. Act! for in action are wisdom and glory; From the German. S. Seize, mortals, seize the transient hour: 9. Let us then be up and doing, HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. ACTORS-DRAMA - THEATRE. 1. Look to the players; see them well bestow'd: They are the abstract and brief chroniclers of the times. 2. They say we live by vice; indeed 'tis true; 3. Boldly I dare say SHAKSPEARE. RANDOLPH. There has been more by us in some one play RANDOLPH. 18 ACTORS-DRAMA-THEATRE. 4. When, with mock majesty and fancied power, 5. Whose every look and gesture was a joke 6. What we hear TICKELL. BLAIR'S Grave. With weaker passion will affect the heart, FRANCIS' Horace. 7. Lo, where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. 8. Where one base scene shall turn more souls to shame, Than ten of Channing's Lectures can reclaim. 9. Where mincing dancers sport tight pantalets, And turn fops' heads while turning pirouettes. SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. 10. And turn from gentle Juliet's woe, SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. ADIEU-FAREWELL - PARTING. 1. With that, wringing my hand he turn'd away, DANIEL. 2. I part with thee As wretches, that are doubtful of hereafter,. 3. Then came the parting hour, and what arise 4. 'T were vain to speak, to weep, to sigh; ROWE. CRABBE'S Hall. 5. Farewell!-a word that hath been and must be, A sound that makes us linger-yet, farewell! BYRON. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 6. Let's not unman each other-part at once; BYRON'S Sardanapalus. 7. One struggle more, and I am free From pangs that rend my heart in twain; One last long sigh to love and thee, BYRON. |