FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   159   160   161   162   163   164   165   166   167   168   169   170   171   172   173   174   175   176   177   178   179   180   181   182   183  
184   185   186   187   188   189   190   191   192   193   194   195   196   197   198   199   200   201   202   203   204   205   206   207   208   >>   >|  
gs, The hero struts, and the whole audience sings; My jarring ear harsh grating murmurs wound. Hoarse and confused, like Babel's mingled sound. Hard chance had placed me near a noisy throat, That, in rough quavers, bellowed every note: "Pray, Sir," said I, "suspend awhile your song, The opera's drowned, your lungs are wondrous strong; I wish to hear your Roland's ranting strain, When he with rooted forests strews the plain."-- "_Monsieur assurement n'aime pas la musique._" Then turning round, he joined the ungrateful noise, And the loud chorus thundered with his voice." _Epistle to the Right Hon. William Pulteney._ Names of the Persons, represented in the same order as they appear first upon the stage. MERCURY. AUGUSTA. _London._ THAMESIS. DEMOCRACY. ZELOTA. _Feigned Zeal._ ARCHON. _The General._ JUNO. IRIS. ALBION. ALBANIUS. PLUTO. ALECTO. APOLLO. NEPTUNE. NEREIDS. ACACIA. _Innocence._ TYRANNY. ASEBIA. _Atheism,_ or _Ungodliness._ PROTEUS. VENUS. FAME. _A Chorus of Cities._ _A Chorus of Rivers._ _A Chorus of the People._ _A Chorus of Furies._ _A Chorus of Nereids and Tritons._ _A grand Chorus of Heroes, Loves, and Graces._ THE FRONTISPIECE. The curtain rises, and a new frontispiece is seen, joined to the great pilasters, which are seen on each side of the stage: on the flat of each basis is a shield, adorned with gold; in the middle of the shield, on one side, are two hearts, a small scroll of gold over them, and an imperial crown over the scroll; on the other hand, in the shield, are two quivers full of arrows saltyre, &c.; upon each basis stands a figure bigger than the life; one represents Peace, with a palm in one, and an olive branch in the other hand; the other Plenty, holding a cornucopia, and resting on a pillar. Behind these figures are large columns of the Corinthian order, adorned with fruit and flowers: over one of the figures on the trees is the king's cypher; over the other, the queen's: over the capitals, on the cornice, sits a figure on each side; one represents Poetry, crowned with laurel, holding a scroll in one hand, the other with a pen in it, and resting on a book; the other, Painting, with a pallet and pencils, &c.: on the sweep
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   159   160   161   162   163   164   165   166   167   168   169   170   171   172   173   174   175   176   177   178   179   180   181   182   183  
184   185   186   187   188   189   190   191   192   193   194   195   196   197   198   199   200   201   202   203   204   205   206   207   208   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

Chorus

 

scroll

 

shield

 

joined

 
adorned
 
represents
 

figure

 

holding

 

figures

 

resting


Rivers

 

Ungodliness

 

PROTEUS

 

Cities

 

Atheism

 

ACACIA

 

NEREIDS

 
NEPTUNE
 

Innocence

 

TYRANNY


ASEBIA
 
Heroes
 

curtain

 

FRONTISPIECE

 

Graces

 

frontispiece

 

pilasters

 
Furies
 

Tritons

 

Nereids


People

 
cypher
 

capitals

 
cornice
 

columns

 

Corinthian

 
flowers
 
Poetry
 

Painting

 

pallet


pencils

 

crowned

 

laurel

 

arrows

 

saltyre

 

stands

 
quivers
 

APOLLO

 
hearts
 

imperial