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The Stage.
'Tis hers with softest charms the breast to move In drooping anguish and in plaintive love ; Where sweet Ophelia meets with wild disdain , Or senseless wanders for a father slain ; Where Desdemona meekly would assuage The poor abus'd Othello ' s causeless rage
; Or Juliet fondly tempts her love to stay , And doubts the tuneful harbinger of day . Ask we the spell by which she wakes the si gh , And calls the flowing sorrow to the eye ? — 'Tis pow ' rful nature ' s all-prevailing sway , And KEMBLE acts as feeling points the way :
When , through the finer workings of the soul , A temper'd fervour animates the whole , We nature ' s strong presiding influence find , And trace the virtues of a kindred mind ; 'Tis nature prompts her looks , her tones , her tears , And . tells the heart , she is what she appears .
Remarks On General Invitations.
REMARKS ON GENERAL INVITATIONS .
THE first and most common of all invitations are general invitations : We shall be glad to see you , Mr . , to take a dinner with us' —or- — 'When you pass this way , we shall be happy if you ; will step in , and eat a bit of mutton '—or— 'Why do we never see you ? We are always at home , and shall be happy if you will spend a day with us '—or— - 'Well ! when am I to see you ? Will you dine with me soon ?'— -or— ' So ! you never will come and dine with us "
—or— ' Before yougo out of town , I positively insist , that you come and dine with us '—or— ' I am engaged to-morrow , but , any other time , I shall be very happy if you will take pot-luck with us '—or— . * Now do come and dine with us , just in the family-way , ' & c . With many other forms , which it were endless to mention . A man , who has but a dozen of such kinds of friends , has no occasion to keep a table
of his own above once a fortnight—and yet , sir , somehow or other , I have met with various disappointments in accepting such invitations . It was but the other day I walked four miles from my house to-dine ¦ with a friend , who was always at home , ' and who had asked me so often , that I began to be ashamed of my rudeness—but he had just dined , although 1 was at his house half an hour before the time which
jie told me he always kept . I concealed that I had not dined , and , making my bow precipitately , went to a neighbouring public house and dined on a beef-steak . Those who ' are always at home , ' I have found are very seldom in the humour of seeing company , and of those who are ' most ' glad to see one , ' the greater part are engaged abroad . Some are' very happy to see me , " but it happens very unfortunately , that the mistress of the
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The Stage.
'Tis hers with softest charms the breast to move In drooping anguish and in plaintive love ; Where sweet Ophelia meets with wild disdain , Or senseless wanders for a father slain ; Where Desdemona meekly would assuage The poor abus'd Othello ' s causeless rage
; Or Juliet fondly tempts her love to stay , And doubts the tuneful harbinger of day . Ask we the spell by which she wakes the si gh , And calls the flowing sorrow to the eye ? — 'Tis pow ' rful nature ' s all-prevailing sway , And KEMBLE acts as feeling points the way :
When , through the finer workings of the soul , A temper'd fervour animates the whole , We nature ' s strong presiding influence find , And trace the virtues of a kindred mind ; 'Tis nature prompts her looks , her tones , her tears , And . tells the heart , she is what she appears .
Remarks On General Invitations.
REMARKS ON GENERAL INVITATIONS .
THE first and most common of all invitations are general invitations : We shall be glad to see you , Mr . , to take a dinner with us' —or- — 'When you pass this way , we shall be happy if you ; will step in , and eat a bit of mutton '—or— 'Why do we never see you ? We are always at home , and shall be happy if you will spend a day with us '—or— - 'Well ! when am I to see you ? Will you dine with me soon ?'— -or— ' So ! you never will come and dine with us "
—or— ' Before yougo out of town , I positively insist , that you come and dine with us '—or— ' I am engaged to-morrow , but , any other time , I shall be very happy if you will take pot-luck with us '—or— . * Now do come and dine with us , just in the family-way , ' & c . With many other forms , which it were endless to mention . A man , who has but a dozen of such kinds of friends , has no occasion to keep a table
of his own above once a fortnight—and yet , sir , somehow or other , I have met with various disappointments in accepting such invitations . It was but the other day I walked four miles from my house to-dine ¦ with a friend , who was always at home , ' and who had asked me so often , that I began to be ashamed of my rudeness—but he had just dined , although 1 was at his house half an hour before the time which
jie told me he always kept . I concealed that I had not dined , and , making my bow precipitately , went to a neighbouring public house and dined on a beef-steak . Those who ' are always at home , ' I have found are very seldom in the humour of seeing company , and of those who are ' most ' glad to see one , ' the greater part are engaged abroad . Some are' very happy to see me , " but it happens very unfortunately , that the mistress of the