 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 trang
...devil. Gallants, look to't; you say there are no sprites; But 111 come dance about your beds at nights. O poet! damn'd dull poet, who could prove So senseless...die for love ! Nay, what's yet worse, to kill me in my prime, Of Easter-term, in tart and cheese-cake lime! But farewell, gentlemen ; make haste to me... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 trang
...say there are no sprites ; But 111 come dance about your beds at nights. O poet! damn'd dull poct, who could prove So senseless to make Nelly die for love ! Nay, what's yet worse, to kill me in my prime, Of Easter-term , in tart and cheese-cake time ! But farewell , gentlemen ; make haste to... | |
 | Prologues - 1810 - 280 trang
...fweet kind of taking, When I furprife you between fleep and waking. To tell you true, I walk becaufe I die Out of my calling, in a tragedy. O poet! damn'd dull poet, who could prove So fenfelefs to make Nelly die for love: Nay what's yet worfe, to kill me in the prime Of Eafttr term,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 trang
...between sleep and waking. To tell you true, 1 walk, because I die Out of my calling, in a tragedy. 0 poet, damn'd dull poet ! who could prove So senseless,...die for love ! Nay, what's yet worse, to kill me in my prime Of Easter-term, in tart and cheesecake time! I'll fit the fop; for I'll not one word say,... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1825 - 326 trang
...and waking : To tell you true, I walk because 1 die Out of my calling, in a tragedy. O poet, d — d dull poet, who could prove So senseless, to make Nelly...die for love; Nay, what's yet worse, to kill me in my prime, Of Easter-term, in tart and cheese-cake time ! I'll fit the fop ; for I'll not one word say,... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1825 - 332 trang
...; And, 'faith, you'll be in a sweet kind of taking, When I surprise you between sleep and waking : To tell you true, I walk because I die Out of my calling, in a tragedy. O poet, d — d dull poet, who could prove So senseless, to make Nelly die for love ; Nay, what's yet worse,... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 514 trang
...mad? you damn'd confounded " dog, " I am to rise and speak the Epilogue." Then to the audience — " I come, kind Gentlemen, strange news to tell ye, "...prove, " So senseless to make Nelly die for love. ********** " As for my Epitaph, when I am gone, " I'll trust no poet, but will write my own. " Here... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1838 - 256 trang
...her own deficiencies: — " I am the ghost of poor departed Nelly ; • • * * To tell you truth, I walk because I die Out of my calling — in a tragedy !" And the concluding lines contain an allusion to one of her personal characteristics, — the extreme... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1840 - 558 trang
...nights. And faith you '11 be in a sweet kind of taking, When I surprise you between sleep and waking. To tell you true, I walk, because I die, Out of my calling in a tragedy. 0 poet, damn'd dull poet, who could prove So senseless, to make Nelly die for love ! Nay, what 's yet... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - 1846 - 562 trang
...emperor's daughter, which she does most basely."] In an epilogue to Tyrannic Love, spoken by her, she says, I walk, because I die Out of my calling in a tragedy. And from the same authority it may be collected that her person was small, and she was negligent in... | |
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I'll come dance about your beds at nights; And faith you'll be in a sweet kind of taking, When I surprise you between sleep and waking. To tell you true, I walk, because I die Out of my calling, in a tragedy. O poet, damned dull poet, who could prove... 
