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Article DISSERTATIONS ON THE POLITE ARTS. ← Page 6 of 6 Article THE STAGE. Page 1 of 2 →
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Dissertations On The Polite Arts.
Silt when loud surges lash the sounding shore , The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent rtfar . « - When Ajax strives some rock's vast wei g ht to tbrovj , The line too labours , and the words move slow ; Not so , when swift Camilla scours the plain , Flies o ' er th' unbending corn , and skims along the main , ( To be continued . )
The Stage.
THE STAGE .
BY JOHN TAYLOR , ESQ .
Continued from p . 242 .
WF sprightly MATTOCKS was not form'd to trace jl The finish'd elegance of comic grace , what humour means she ably can express , And put on manners as she puts on dress . With skill she shews the vulgar city wife , "Whose test of spirit is incessant strife ; Or sportive females of a hiher race
g , Whose boist ' rous airs their rank and sex disgrace ; Or where the widow with a mournful eye , Her recent loss , would prudently supply , And , while she whimpers for her poor dead dear , The smile of hope illumes the labour'd tear . Sometimes , perchancetoo stately and too prim
, , When she should seem all merriment and whim ; Sometimes , too anxious to express with force , Her col ' ring , we allow , is hard and coarse ; But all her characters are well design'd , Form'd OR the certain ground-work of the mind .
Beneath the veil of manners she can pry , And trace the passions with a thinking eye ; She takes her portraits from the passing throng , With judgment solid , and with humour strong . JORDAN advances with so proud a name , That censure sinks beneath tfi' o ' erwhelming fame .
To truth and reason we shall always bow , - B « t fashion ' s edicts dare to disallow , And tho , ugh we own her merit , still decline With boundless homage to approach her shrine . Nor shall we rashlyjoin a partial crowd , ¦ Who in thpir worshiarrogantlloud
p y , And , caught by novelty ' s bewild ' ring blaze , Abandon those who well deserve their praise . But here with candour shall we briefly try To hold her portrait to the public . eye ; Tti " ' '
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Dissertations On The Polite Arts.
Silt when loud surges lash the sounding shore , The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent rtfar . « - When Ajax strives some rock's vast wei g ht to tbrovj , The line too labours , and the words move slow ; Not so , when swift Camilla scours the plain , Flies o ' er th' unbending corn , and skims along the main , ( To be continued . )
The Stage.
THE STAGE .
BY JOHN TAYLOR , ESQ .
Continued from p . 242 .
WF sprightly MATTOCKS was not form'd to trace jl The finish'd elegance of comic grace , what humour means she ably can express , And put on manners as she puts on dress . With skill she shews the vulgar city wife , "Whose test of spirit is incessant strife ; Or sportive females of a hiher race
g , Whose boist ' rous airs their rank and sex disgrace ; Or where the widow with a mournful eye , Her recent loss , would prudently supply , And , while she whimpers for her poor dead dear , The smile of hope illumes the labour'd tear . Sometimes , perchancetoo stately and too prim
, , When she should seem all merriment and whim ; Sometimes , too anxious to express with force , Her col ' ring , we allow , is hard and coarse ; But all her characters are well design'd , Form'd OR the certain ground-work of the mind .
Beneath the veil of manners she can pry , And trace the passions with a thinking eye ; She takes her portraits from the passing throng , With judgment solid , and with humour strong . JORDAN advances with so proud a name , That censure sinks beneath tfi' o ' erwhelming fame .
To truth and reason we shall always bow , - B « t fashion ' s edicts dare to disallow , And tho , ugh we own her merit , still decline With boundless homage to approach her shrine . Nor shall we rashlyjoin a partial crowd , ¦ Who in thpir worshiarrogantlloud
p y , And , caught by novelty ' s bewild ' ring blaze , Abandon those who well deserve their praise . But here with candour shall we briefly try To hold her portrait to the public . eye ; Tti " ' '