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The Stage.
THE STAGE .
Continued from p . ioo . WITH ev ' ry careless grace of sprightly ease , while nature delihtto lease BY JOHN TAYLOR , ESQ .
Secure , can g , p , The sportive C ARGILL revels o ' er the scene , Love in her eye and frolic in her mien . By no ambitious impulse e ' er betray'd , ' . And scorning affectation ' s vain parade , She skims along where genius points the way , Simole at once and arch , correct and gay .
Where ' er the bard a character supplies , Which no stiff airs of hig h-bred art disguise , Where the quick graces spring from feelings warm , That fire the eyes and animate the form , The lovely Syren soars beyond his art , And speaks the vivid language of the heart . Though nature starts at that fantastic rage
, The vile transform of sexes on the stage , Such varying excellence in her we meet , As almost sanctions the absurd conceit . Yet CARGILL throw this dang ' rous skill aside , And let thy sway o ' er man content thy pride ; Oh ! turn not such delusive pow ' rs to vex ,
With love ' s resistless snares , thy hapless sex . FARREN , with talents that have rais'd her name Hig h on the records of theatric fame , Of affectation fatally the slave , Too oft perverts what bounteous nature gave .
E'en where a bard has this lov'd folly try'd With some outre resemblance to deride , Too oft her manners far transcend the part , And mock the feebler effort of his art . Yet was she fovm'd each softer care to move , To image tender truth and gen ' rous love
, To bid the sympathizing sorrows flow With plaintive charm of mild domestic woe , Though from the serious muse she long has stray'd , And fondly revels with the comic maid . 'Tis hers to sport with airy ease along , And hold the glass to fashion ' s iddy throng
g , Reflect each foible ofthe flutt ' ring race , And paint their virtues with an heighten'd grace-. ( To be continued . ) VOL , V , B b
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The Stage.
THE STAGE .
Continued from p . ioo . WITH ev ' ry careless grace of sprightly ease , while nature delihtto lease BY JOHN TAYLOR , ESQ .
Secure , can g , p , The sportive C ARGILL revels o ' er the scene , Love in her eye and frolic in her mien . By no ambitious impulse e ' er betray'd , ' . And scorning affectation ' s vain parade , She skims along where genius points the way , Simole at once and arch , correct and gay .
Where ' er the bard a character supplies , Which no stiff airs of hig h-bred art disguise , Where the quick graces spring from feelings warm , That fire the eyes and animate the form , The lovely Syren soars beyond his art , And speaks the vivid language of the heart . Though nature starts at that fantastic rage
, The vile transform of sexes on the stage , Such varying excellence in her we meet , As almost sanctions the absurd conceit . Yet CARGILL throw this dang ' rous skill aside , And let thy sway o ' er man content thy pride ; Oh ! turn not such delusive pow ' rs to vex ,
With love ' s resistless snares , thy hapless sex . FARREN , with talents that have rais'd her name Hig h on the records of theatric fame , Of affectation fatally the slave , Too oft perverts what bounteous nature gave .
E'en where a bard has this lov'd folly try'd With some outre resemblance to deride , Too oft her manners far transcend the part , And mock the feebler effort of his art . Yet was she fovm'd each softer care to move , To image tender truth and gen ' rous love
, To bid the sympathizing sorrows flow With plaintive charm of mild domestic woe , Though from the serious muse she long has stray'd , And fondly revels with the comic maid . 'Tis hers to sport with airy ease along , And hold the glass to fashion ' s iddy throng
g , Reflect each foible ofthe flutt ' ring race , And paint their virtues with an heighten'd grace-. ( To be continued . ) VOL , V , B b