The Beauties of Sheridan: Consisting of Selections From His Poems, Dramas, and Speeches (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Beauties of Sheridan: Consisting of Selections From His Poems, Dramas, and Speeches

Youth's earliest Blush - and Beauty's virgin tear. Such is their mead - their honours thus secure, Whose arts yield objects, and wh ose works endure.

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Excerpt from The Beauties of Sheridan: Consisting of Selections From His Poems, Dramas, and Speeches

Sheridan.

Monody to the Memory of Garrick.

Spoken at Drury Lane Theatre.

If dying excellence deserves a tear,
If fond remembrance still is cherished here,
Can we persist to bid your sorrows flow
For fabled sufferers, and delusive woe,
Or with quaint smiles dismiss the plaintive strain,
Point the quick jest - indulge the comic vein -
Ere yet to buried Roscius we assign
One kind regret - one tributary line!
His fame requires we act a tenderer part!
His memory claims the tear you gave his art!
The general voice, the meed of mournful verse,
The splendid sorrows that adorn his hearse,
The throng that mourned as their dead Favourite pass'd,
The graced respect that claim'd him to the last.
While Shakspeare's image, from its hallow'd base,
Seemed to prescribe the grave, and point the place, -
Nor these, - nor all the sad regrets that flow
From fond Fidelity's domestic woe, -

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.