 While gradual parties fill our widen'd pit, And gape, and gaze, and wonder, ere they sit. At first, while vacant seats give choice and ease, Distant or near, they settle where they please ; But when the multitude contracts the span, And seats are rare,...  Rejected Addresses, Or, The New Theatrum Poetarum - Page 161by James Smith, Horace Smith - 1851 - 193 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Smith, Horace Smith - 1812 - 156 pages
...the gallery pane Tinge with his beam the beams of Drury Lane, While gradual parties fill our widen'd pit, And gape, and gaze, and wonder, ere they sit....they settle where they can. Now the full benches, to late comers, doom No room for standing, miscull'U standing room. Hark ! the check taker moody silence... | |
 | 1812 - 532 pages
...the gallery pane Tinge with his beam the beams of Drury Lane, While gradual parties fill our widen'd pit, And gape, and gaze, and wonder, ere they sit....they settle where they can. Now the full benches, to late comers, doom No room for standing, miscall'd standing room. Hark ! the check taker moody silence... | |
 | James Smith, Horace Smith - 1812 - 158 pages
...the gallery pane Tinge with his beam the beams of Drury Lane., While gradual parties fill our widen'd pit, And gape, and gaze, and wonder, ere they sit....the span, And seats are rare, they settle where they cart, Now the full benches, to late comers, doom No room for standing, miscall'd standing roum. Hark... | |
 | James Smith, Horace Smith - 1812 - 162 pages
...Lane, While gradual parties fill our widen'd pit, JLnd gape, and gaze, and wonder, ere they sit. i At first, while vacant seats give choice and ease,...they settle where they can. Now the full benches, to late comers, doom No room for standing, miscall'd standing room. Hark ! the check taker moody silence... | |
 | James Smith, Horace Smith - 1812 - 154 pages
...the gallery pane Tinge with his beam the beams of Drury Lane, While gradual parties fill our widen'd pit, And gape, and gaze, and wonder. ere they sit. At first, while racaut seats gire choice and ease, Distant or near, they settle wher« they pleas* j 11$ *B«t when... | |
 | James Smith, Horace Smith - 1813 - 472 pages
...the gallery pane Tinge with his beam the beams of Drury-Lane, While gradual parties fill our widen'd pit, And gape, and gaze, and wonder, ere they sit....they settle where they can. Now the full benches, to late comers, doom No room for standing, miscall'd standing room. Hark ! the check-taker moody silence... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 540 pages
...the gallery pane Tinge with his beam the beams of Drury Lane, While gradual parties fill our widen'd pit, And gape, and gaze, and wonder, ere they sit....they settle where they can. Now the full benches, to late comers, doom No room for standing, miscall'd standing room. Hark ! the check taker moody silence... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 544 pages
...the gallery pane Tinge with his beam the beams of Dniry Lanei \Vhilegradual parties fill our widen'd pit, And gape, and gaze, and wonder, ere they sit. At first, while vacant seats give choice and easa, Distant or near, they settle where they please; But when the multitude contracts the span, And... | |
 | 1813 - 670 pages
...they seule where they please ; VOL. IX. K ^ At first, while vacant seats give choice and ease» *;. But when the multitude contracts the span, And seats are rare, they settle where they can. Hark ! the check taker moody silence breaks, And bawling " Pit full," gives the check he takes ; Yet... | |
 | 1842 - 850 pages
...aggregation of humanity in the pit — " At first, while vacant Mats give choice and ease, Distant as near, they settle where they please ; But when the multitude contracts the span, And seati are rare, they settle where they can." The rise of the foot-lights, daydawn of the stage, strike... | |
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