14 ABSENCE. When I think of my own native land, Soon hurries me back to despair! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Think'st thou that I could bear to part COWPER L'HOMSON. From thee, and learn to halve my heart? Far I BYRON'S Bride of Abydos. go where fate may lead me, Far across the troubled deep; Where no stranger's ear shall heed me, Tho' fate, my girl, may bid us part, And canst thou think, because we part "Tis hard to be parted from those With whom we for ever could dwell; T. MOORE When perhaps we are saying farewell-forever! MRS. OFIE When absent from her whom my soul holds most dear, In this bosom what anguish, what hope, and what fear, BRAHAM. ACTION. 15 When far from thee I bide, I've talk'd to thee; And when I woke, I sigh'd Myself alone to see. From the German-TAYLOR. We must part awhile; A few short months-tho' short, they will be long We must endure it, and our love will be JAMES G. PERCIVAL. Oh Absence! by thy stern decree, Is fill'd with doubts and fears! Thy days like tedious weeks do seem, J. T. WATSON, ACTION. Whilst timorous knowledge stands considering, Good actions crown themselves with lasting bays; If thou dost ill, the joy fades, not the pains; DANIEL HEATH G. HERBERT ACTIVITY- ENTERPRISE. If it were done, when 't is done, then, 't is well SHAKSPEARE. Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harm. SHAKSPEARE. Let's take the instant by the forward top; How slow the time To the warm soul, that, in the very instant The keen spirit SHAKSPEARE. Seizes the prompt occasion,-makes the thoughts Plans and performs, resolves and executes! My days, though few, have pass'd below THOMSON. HANNAH MORE. BYRON'S Giaouar. ACTORS-DRAMA - THEATRE. Act! for in action are wisdom and glory; From the German. Seize, mortals, seize the transient hour: Let us then be up and doing, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. 17 HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. ACTORS-DRAMA - THEATRE. Look to the players; see them well bestow'd: They are the abstract and brief chroniclers of the times. They say we live by vice; indeed 'tis true; As the physicians by diseases do, Only to cure them. SHAKSPEARE. RANDOLPH. Boldly I dare say There has been more by us in some one play RANDOLPH. 18 ACTORS - DRAMA - THEATRE. When, with mock majesty and fancied power, Whose every look and gesture was a joke Before she was aware. What we hear TICKEL Let BLAIR'S Grave. With weaker passion will affect the heart, FRANCIS' Horace. Lo, where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. Where one base scene shall turn more souls to shame, SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. Where mincing dancers sport tight pantalets, SPRAGUE's Curiosity. And turn from gentle Juliet's woe, SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. |