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THE ROSCIAD.
When Love, Hate, Jealousy, Despair, and Rage,
With wildest tumults in her breast engage;
Still equal to herself is Zara seen:
Her passions are the passions of a queen. 490
With wildest tumults in her breast engage;
Still equal to herself is Zara seen:
Her passions are the passions of a queen. 490
When she to murther whets the tim'rous Thane,
I feel Ambition rush through ev'ry vein;
Persuasion hangs upon her daring tongue,
My heart grows flint, and ev'ry nerve's new strung.
I feel Ambition rush through ev'ry vein;
Persuasion hangs upon her daring tongue,
My heart grows flint, and ev'ry nerve's new strung.
In comedy———"Nay, there," cries critic, "hold. 495
"Pritchard's for comedy too fat and old.
"Who can, with patience, bear the grey coquette,
"Or force a laugh with over-grown Julett?
"Her speech, look, action, humour, all are just;
"But then, her age and figure give disgust." 500
"Pritchard's for comedy too fat and old.
"Who can, with patience, bear the grey coquette,
"Or force a laugh with over-grown Julett?
"Her speech, look, action, humour, all are just;
"But then, her age and figure give disgust." 500
Are foibles then, and graces of the mind,
In real life, to size or age confin'd?
Do spirits flow, and is good-breeding plac'd
In any set circumference of waist?
As we grow old, doth affectation cease, 505
Or gives not age new vigour to caprice?
If in originals these things appear,
Why should we bar them in the copy here?
In real life, to size or age confin'd?
Do spirits flow, and is good-breeding plac'd
In any set circumference of waist?
As we grow old, doth affectation cease, 505
Or gives not age new vigour to caprice?
If in originals these things appear,
Why should we bar them in the copy here?
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