 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 422 pàgines
...calls upon the audience to exult, that a piece was exhibited •which they might fairly call their own, " Where the proud titles of My Lord! Your Grace ! " To humble Mr. and plain Sir, give place." It possesses little merit either in plot or character. The preface claims indulgence for the author... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 418 pàgines
...Prologue calls upon the audience to exult, that a piece was exhibited which they might fairly call their own, " Where the proud titles of My Lord ! Your Grace ! " To humble Mr. and plain Sir, give place." It possesses little merit either in plot or character. The preface claims indulgence for the author... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 444 pàgines
...upon the audience to exult, that a piece was exhibited which they might fairly call their own, " Whete the proud titles of My Lord ! Your Grace ! • " To humble Mr. and plain Sir, give place." It possesses little merit either in plot or character. The ' preface claims indulgence for the author... | |
 | Vermont Historical Society - 1926 - 630 pàgines
...The fledgeling Eagle screams lustily in the Prolotrue. ' ' written bv a young gentleman of New York:" "Exult, each patriot heart! This night is shown A piece which we may fairly call our own Our author pictures not from foreign climes The fashions or the follies of the times : But has confined... | |
 | George Oberkirsh Seilhamer - 1889 - 408 pàgines
...sign of their characters being in the fact that they called each other Lctitia and Charlotte. In this Exult each patriot heart ! — this night is shown...Grace ! ' To humble Mr. and plain Sir give place. Our author pictures not from foreign climes The fashions or the follies of the times ; But has confin'd... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 564 pàgines
...benefit of the sufferers by the fire at Boston. PBOLOGUE, IN REBUKE OF THE PREVAILING ANGLOMANIA. i XULT each patriot heart ! — this night is shown A piece,...Grace ! " To humble "Mr." and plain " Sir" give place. Our author pictures not from foreign climes The fashions, or the follies of the times; But has confined... | |
 | Katharine Lee Bates - 1897 - 438 pàgines
...played in New York twenty years later, heralded itself with a flourish of Revolutionary trumpets : " Exult each patriot heart ! — this night is shown A piece which we may fairly call our own." The privilege is not precious. Dull, trivial, and shapeless, the play is noteworthy only as providing... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent - 1903 - 632 pàgines
...it could count upon patriotic fervour for support, as the opening lines of the prologue anticipated: Exult, each patriot heart ! this night is shown A...Grace ! " To humble Mr. and plain Sir give place. It is just to add that much of the stilted conversation, the pairing of valets and masters, the situation... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent - 1903 - 666 pàgines
...it could count upon patriotic fervour for support, as the opening lines of the prologue anticipated: Exult, each patriot heart ! this night is shown A...call our own ; Where the proud titles of "My Lord 1 Your Grace ! " To humble Mr. and plain Sir give place. It is just to add that much of the stilted... | |
 | Annie Russell Marble - 1907 - 424 pàgines
...patriotism is sounded in the first lines of the prologue : EXULT, each patriot heart ! this night is shewn A piece, which we may fairly call our own; Where the..."Your Grace !" To humble Mr. and plain Sir give place. Our Author pictures not from foreign climes, The fashions or the follies of the times; But has confin'd... | |
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Exult each patriot heart ! — this night is shewn A piece, which we may fairly call our own; Where the proud titles of "My Lord! Your Grace! 
