 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1829 - 530 pages
...heaven's gate Angels within it. , THE END OF THE PLAY [Dr. Birch, 1849 ; Miscellanies, Vol. I, 1855] THE play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's hell : A moment yet the actor stops, And looks around, to say farewell. It is an irksome word and task... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1865 - 562 pages
...here Alone and merry at Forty Year, Dipping my nose in the Gascon wine. THE END OF THE PLAY. ' I *HE play is done ; the curtain drops, •*• Slow falling...say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A face that's any thing but gay. One word, ere yet the evening ends, Let's close it with a parting rhyme, And pledge... | |
 | Robert C. Eden - 1865 - 142 pages
...BURTON.- Com. Serg't — .... CHASE. QM Serg't — SAM. PICKETT. Serg't Major — H. BABOOCK. L'Envoi. The play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell, A moment jet the actor stops, And looks around to bid farewell, It is an irksome word and task, And when he's... | |
 | 1865 - 520 pages
...cb. xv. § Ibid., ch. xU. £ August, 1823.— Ibid., di. lix. 1 Diary of Sir \V. Scott, Dec. 8, 1825. shows, as he removes the mask, A face that's anything but gay.* In one of Hood's letters from Coblentz we read : " The artist who is coming out to take my portrait... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 pages
...imitation for the refined productions in prose and verse, as and observing. III. 127. END OF TKE PLAY. THE play is done — the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's ' bell ; A moment y<5t the actor stops, And looks around, to say farewell It is an irksome ' word and task ; And when... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 550 pages
...strutted out. No wonder that the master Showman of Vanity Fair should pen an envoi after this fashion : " The play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow falling...removes the mask, A face that's anything but gay." Horace Walpole will be found iterating and reiterating in his letters a favourite apophthegm of his—that... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 432 pages
...strutted out. No wonder that the master Showman of Vanity Fair should pen an envoi after this fashion : " The play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow falling...removes the mask, A face that's anything but gay." Horace Walpole will be found iterating and reiterating in his letters a favourite apophthegm of his—that... | |
 | 1880 - 996 pages
...most natural, most manful, and most poetical utterances, has retained its hold on its old readers : " The play is done, the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's hell. The Christmas book for 1849 was the continuation to Ivanhoe, " Rebecca and Rowena," with several... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...PLAY. • ORIGINALLY PRINTED AT THE END OF "DR. BIRCH AND HIS THE play is done ; the curtain ttrops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell : A moment yet...And, when he's laughed and said his say, He shows, as hii removes the mask, A face that's anything but gny. This crowns his feast with wine and wit : Who... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...shuts up with loss of breath, And leaves no epilogue but death. HENRY KING. THE END OF THE PLAY. ТПЕ Man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel,...to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these he 's laughed and said his say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A face that 's anything but gay.... | |
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THE play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell : A moment yet the actor stops, And looks around, to say farewell. It is an irksome word and task ; And, when he's laughed and said his say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A... 
