7. Act! for in action are wisdom and glory; Fame, immortality-these are its crown; Build on achievements thy doom of renown. From the German. 8. Seize, mortals, seize the transient hour: 9. Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for every fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. ACTORS-DRAMA-THEATRE. 1. Look to the players; see them well bestow'd: They are the abstract and brief chroniclers of the times. SHAKSPEARE. 2. They say we live by vice; indeed 'tis true; Only to cure them. RANDOLPH. 3. Boldly I dare say As the physicians by diseases do, There has been more by us in some one play RANDOLPH. 18 ACTORS-DRAMA - THEATRE. 4. When, with mock majesty and fancied power, And rhyme and quibble in the pains of death. 5. Whose every look and gesture was a joke 6. TICKELL. BLAIR'S Grave. What we hear With weaker passion will affect the heart, FRANCIS' Horace. 7. Lo, where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. 8. Where one base scene shall turn more souls to shame, Than ten of Channing's Lectures can reclaim. SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. 9. Where mincing dancers sport tight pantalets, And turn fops' heads while turning pirouettes. 10. SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. And turn from gentle Juliet's woe, SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. ADIEU-FAREWELL-PARTING. 1. With that, wringing my hand he turn'd away, DANIEL. 2. I part with thee As wretches, that are doubtful of hereafter, Part with their lives, unwilling, loath and fearful, ROWE. 3. Then came the parting hour, and what arise 4. "T were vain to speak, to weep, to sigh; CRABBE'S Hall. 5. Farewell!-a word that hath been and must be, A sound that makes us linger-yet, farewell! BYRON. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 6. Let's not unman each other-part at once; 7. One struggle more, and I am free BYRON'S Sardanapalus. From pangs that rend my heart in twain; Then back to busy life again. BYRON. 20 ADIEU-FAREWELL-PARTING. 8. Then fare thee well, deceitful maid, 9. 'T were vain and foolish to regret thee; But now the moments bring The time of parting, with redoubled wing; 10. Fare thee well! yet think awhile BYRON. BYRON'S Corsair. On one whose bosom bleeds to doubt thee; And die with thee, than live without thee! 11. With all my soul, then let us part, Since both are anxious to be free; MOORE. MOORE. 12. Well-peace to thy heart, tho' another's it be; And health to thy cheek, tho' it bloom not for me. MOORE. 13. Enough that we are parted-that there rolls MOORE'S Lalla Rookh. 14. Go, thou vision wildly gleaming, 15. Vanish'd, like dew-drops from the spray, I cast life's brightest pearl away, And, false one, breathe my last adieu! W. G. CLARK. 16. Farewell, oh, farewell! thou hast broken the chain, How I grieved o'er thee, dear one !-farewell, oh, farewell! 17. One hurried kiss-one last, one long embrace One yearning look upon her tearful face- MRS. C. H. W. ESLING. 18. We parted in sadness, but spoke not of parting; CHARLES FENNO HOFFMAN. 19. Farewell, then, thou loved one-O, loved but too well, 20. We part-no matter how we part; There are some thoughts we utter not; RICHARD HENRY WILDE. |