She Stoops to Conquer; or, the Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy.... 219 An Oratorio; now first printed from the original in Dr Goldsmith's PROLOGUE, WRITTEN AND SPOKEN BY THE POET LABERIUS, A ROMAN KNIGHT, WHOM CÆSAR FORCED UPON THE STAGE. PRESERVED BY MACROBIUS.' 1 WHAT! no way left to shun th' inglorious stage, For ah! too partial to my life's decline, This translation was first printed in one of our author's earliest works, "The Present State of Learning in Europe," 12mo. 1759; but was omitted in the second edition, which appeared in 1774. |