| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 páginas
.... Such is theirmeed — thetv honors thussecure, Whose arts yield objects, and whose works endure : The actor only shrinks from time's award ; Feeble tradition is his memory's guard ; whose faint breath his merit! "muH abide, nvouch'fi by proof, to substance uuallied ! E'eii matchless... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 páginas
...is //«•</• meed; their honours thus secure ; Whose arts yield objects, and whose works endure. The actor only shrinks from time's award ; Feeble tradition is his memory's guard , By whose faint breath his merits must abide, Unvouch'd by proof, to substance unallied ! E'en matchless... | |
| 1819 - 610 páginas
...volume, and lifts his voice to thronging multitudes, long after his bones have mouldered in the dust. The actor only shrinks from time's award, Feeble tradition is his memory's guard ; Even matchless Kemble's art No fixed effect, no model leaves behind. The grace of action, the adapted... | |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1821 - 428 páginas
...Such is their meed — their honours thus secure, Whose arts yield objects, and whose works endure. The Actor, only, shrinks from Time's award ; Feeble tradition is his memory's guard ; By whose faint breath his merits must abide, Unvouch'd by proof— to substance unallied ! E'en matchless... | |
| James Boaden - 1824 - 240 páginas
...When Reynolds modestly inscribed his name upon the hem of her garment, he bestowed greater lonT gevity than he received. " The actor only shrinks from Time's...us that Droeshout engraved, besides the head of our 12 • poet, portraits of John Fox, the martyrolagist ; Richard Elton ; John Howson, Bishop of Durham... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1824 - 140 páginas
...Such is their meed — their honours thus secure, Whose arts yield objects, and whose works endure : The actor only shrinks from time's award ; Feeble tradition is his memory's guard ; By whose faint breath his merits must abide, Unvouched by proof, to substance unallied ! E'en matchless... | |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1825 - 346 páginas
...Such is their meed— their honours thus secure, Whose arts yield objects, and whose works endure. The Actor, only, shrinks from Time's award ; Feeble tradition is his memory's guard; By whose faint breath his merits must abide, Unvouch'd by proof — to substanpe unallied ! E'en matchless... | |
| 1826 - 310 páginas
...Such is their meed — their honours thus secure, Whose arts yield objects, and whose works endure. The actor only shrinks from time's award ; Feeble tradition is his memory's guard ; By whose faint breath it must abide, Unvouch'd by proof — to substance unallied ! • Even matchless... | |
| Thomas Smart Hughes - 1835 - 364 páginas
...their skill and glory behind them, by which their distinguished excellence is known to posterity : The actor only shrinks from Time's award : Feeble tradition is his memory's guard. Tradition, however, is so strong and uniform in its testimony to Garrick's merits, that we may well... | |
| Pierce Egan - 1838 - 418 páginas
...melancholy truth, observed by the late brilliant, witty, and inimitable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. " The ACTOR only shrinks from Time's award: Feeble tradition is his memory's guard ; By whose faint breath his merits must subside, Unvouch'd by proof—to SUBSTANCE unallied!" In spite... | |
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