 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...without rival to shine : As a wit, if not first, in the very first line : Yet, with talents like these and an excellent heart, The man had his failings —...his art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, A nd beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting;... | |
 | James Beattie, Oliver Goldsmith - Gift books - 1864 - 540 pages
...without rival to shine ; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line : Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings,...his art. like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 464 pages
...without rival to shine ; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line : Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colors he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple,... | |
 | Children's literature - 1865 - 1136 pages
...without rival to shine ; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line ; Yet with talents like these and an excellent heart, The man had his failings,...his art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting... | |
 | Richard Ashe King - Authors, English - 1910 - 370 pages
...without rival to shine; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line. Yet with talents like these and an excellent heart, The man had his failings,...his art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplastered with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting;... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 524 pages
...without rival to shine ; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line : Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings —...his art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting;... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 298 pages
...without rival to shine; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line: Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings —...his art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting;... | |
 | William Murison - English language - 1910 - 416 pages
...without rival to shine ; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line : Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art. 10. Sisterly, brotherly, Fatherly, motherly, Feelings had changed : Love, by harsh evidence, Thrown... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...without rival to shine : As a wit, if not first, in the very first line : Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings,...his art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. 100 On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...without rival to shine ; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line ; Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart. The man had his failings —...a dupe to his art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colors he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple,... | |
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As an actor, confess'd without rival to shine; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line; Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings — a dupe to his art. 
