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
| Austin Dobson - 1896 - 430 pages
...unrealized. So true are Garrick's own prophetic words in the Prologue to ' The Clandestine Marriage ' : — ' Nor Pen nor Pencil can the Actor save ; The Art, and Artist, share one common Grave ! ' Richard Mead. DR. MEAD'S LIBRARY. TN that lively and now rather rare little book, •*• the '... | |
| Austin Dobson - 1896 - 394 pages
...unrealized. So true are Garrick's own prophetic words in the Prologue to 'The Clandestine Marriage': — ' Nor Pen nor Pencil can the Actor save ; The Art, and Artist, share one common Grave ! ' DR. MEAD'S LIBRARY. TN that lively and now rather rare little book, the 'Etat des Arts en Angleterre,'... | |
| Austin Dobson - 1898 - 488 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...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... | |
| 1902 - 1046 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...save, The art and artist share one common grave." This, however, was long before the time of the theatrical history and biography, which have now become... | |
| Thomas Edgar Pemberton - 1902 - 374 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...save, The art and artist share one common grave." • The volumes of theatrical history and biography that have been written and become popular since... | |
| Thomas Edgar Pemberton - 1904 - 414 pages
...dead, yet still he charms the eye ; While England lives his name can never die. But he who struts his hour upon the stage Can scarce extend his fame for...save ; The art and artist share one common grave." I hope that in the pages of this permitted biography I shall persuade my old friend to believe that... | |
| Florence Mary Wilson Parsons - 1906 - 542 pages
...his calling, but publicly dwelt on it in his prologue to The Clandestine Marriage, which ends— " Nor Pen nor Pencil can the Actor save, The Art and Artist, share one common Grave." It was a novelty to an audience to hear the petted player deliver himself of so melancholy a reflection,... | |
| Florence Mary Wilson Parsons - 1906 - 538 pages
...his calling, but publicly dwelt on it in his prologue to The Clandestine Marriage, which ends — " Nor Pen nor Pencil can the Actor save, The Art and Artist, share one common Grave." It was a novelty to an audience to hear the petted player deliver himself of so melancholy a reflection,... | |
| Austin Dobson - 1912 - 342 pages
...Prologue to the 'Clandestine Marriage V and Sheridan, with much facile ' fioriture,' included it in that 1 Nor Pen nor Pencil can the Actor save ; The Art, and Artist, share one common Grave. ' Monody ' which was spoken by Mrs. Yates at Drury Lane, on the great actor's death. But it was Lloyd... | |
| Oliver Elton - 1928 - 444 pages
...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...save ; The art, and artist, share one common grave . . . Your children cannot feel what you have known ; They '11 boast of Quins and Gibbers of their... | |
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