The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh, Volume 2Nonesuch Press, 1927 - Dramatists, English |
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Page 143 - Ha! ha! ha! Ha! ha! ha! well hast thou done To lay down thy pack, And lighten thy back. The world was a fool, e'er since it begun, And since neither Janus, nor Chronos, nor I Can hinder the crimes Or mend the bad times, 'Tis better to laugh than to cry.
Page 144 - MARS. Inspire the vocal brass, inspire ; The world is past its infant age : Arms and honour, Arms and honour, Set the martial mind on fire, And kindle manly rage. Mars has look'd the sky to red ; And Peace, the lazy good, is fled.
Page 143 - Chronos, Chronos, mend thy pace ; An hundred times the rolling sun. Around the radiant belt has run In his revolving race.
Page 146 - Took all the ungodly pains, and got the least. Thus did the thriving malady prevail ; The court its head, the poets but the tail. The sin was of our native growth, 'tis true ; The scandal of the sin was wholly new. Misses there were, but modestly concealed ; Whitehall the naked Venus first revealed, Who standing as at Cyprus in her shrine, The strumpet was adored with rites divine.
Page 144 - MARS. Inspire the Vocal Brass, Inspire; The World is past its Infant Age: Arms and Honour, Arms and Honour, Set the Martial Mind on Fire, And kindle Manly Rage. Mars has lookt the Sky to Red; And Peace, the Lazy Good, is fled.
Page 91 - Nay, there," cries Critic, " hold ; " Pritchard's for comedy too fat and old ; " Who can, with patience, bear the gray coquette, " Or force a laugh with overgrown Julett ? " Her speech, look, action, humour, all are just, " But then her age and figure give disgust.
Page 146 - The poets, who must live by courts, or starve, Were proud so good a government to serve: And, mixing with buffoons and pimps profane, Tainted the stage, for some small snip of gain.
Page 8 - Unmanner'd jests are blurted in your face, There Yates with justice strict attention draws, Acts truly from himself, and gains applause ; But when to please himself or charm his wife He aims at something in politer life, When blindly thwarting Nature's stubborn plan, He treads...
Page 81 - twas wealth gave joy and mirth, And that to be the dearest wife Of one who labour'd all his life, To make a mine of gold his own, And not spend sixpence when he'd done, Was heaven upon earth. When these two blades had done, d'ye see, The feather (as it might be me) Steps out, sir, from behind the screen, With such an air, and such a mien, Look you, old gentleman, in short, He quickly spoil'd the statesman's sport.