The painter dead, yet still he charms the eye; While England lives, his fame can never die: But he who struts his hour upon the stage, Can scarce extend his fame for half an age; Nor pen nor pencil can the actor save, The art, and artist, share one common... The Port folio, by Oliver Oldschool - Page 71Full view - About this book
| 1882 - 602 pages
...fame of all great singers or actors rests necessarily upon tradition. As Garrick has justly said : " N"or pen, nor pencil, can the actor save, The art and artist have a common grave." Still, if \vc may accept concurrent contemporary testimony, Malibran combined... | |
| 1866 - 398 pages
...dead, yet still he charms the eye. While England lives his fame can never die. But he " who si nits his hour upon the stage," Can scarce extend his fame for...actor save, The art and artist share one common grave. Colley Cibber was the original source from whence they all drew the observation. Speaking of Betterton... | |
| William Rounseville Alger - 1877 - 468 pages
...charms the eye; While taste survives, his fame can never die. But he who struts /it's hour upon Ike stage Can scarce extend his fame for half an age....save, — The art and artist share one common grave." CHAPTER X. TWO YEARS OF RECREATION AND STUDY IN THE OLD WORLD. THE parting cheers died into silence,... | |
| Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 pages
...dead, yet still he charms the eye ; While England lives his fame can never die : But he who struts his hour upon the stage Can scarce extend his fame for...Actor save, The art and artist share one common grave. S .% Garrick, Prologue to 'The Clandestine Marriw' B ACTOR. THE Actor only shrinks from Time's award... | |
| Charles Churchill - 1880 - 740 pages
...dead, yet still he charms the eye. While England lives his fame can never die. But he " who struts his hour upon the stage," Can scarce extend his fame for...actor save, The art and artist share one common grave. Colley Cibber was the original source from whence they all drew the observation. Speaking of Betterton... | |
| E.M. ABDY-WILLIAMS - 1885 - 772 pages
...Roscius had his provincial rival in his eye when he penned these touching lines : " For he who struts his hour upon the stage, Can scarce extend his fame for...save — The art, and artist, share one common grave ! " Had it not been for his brief accidental acquaintance with Garrick and Tate Wilkinson, the very... | |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1884 - 388 pages
...fame can never die; But he who struts his hour upon the stage Can scarce protract his fame through half an age; Nor pen, nor pencil can the actor save ; The art and artist have one common grave." It is this assertion of Garrick's and Sheridan's, it may be, that Campbell... | |
| Austin Dobson - 1891 - 510 pages
...yet still he charms the Eye ; While England lives, his Fame can never die ; But he who struts lit's Hour upon the Stage, Can scarce extend his Fame for...save, The Art, and Artist, share one common Grave." The idea in the last couplet, which the author of the Prologue is thought to have borrowed from " The... | |
| Theodore Martin - 1894 - 336 pages
...Europe for a century and a half A welcome peace, — a peace, the precious fruit 1 "He who struts his hour upon the stage, Can scarce extend his fame for...; Nor pen nor pencil can the actor save, The art, the artist, share one common grave." — GARRICK. Prologue to The Clandestine Marriage. Of thirty years... | |
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