 | Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitt Southworth - 1859 - 498 Seiten
...mute and motionless, Asks but a glance from time ; But by the mighty Actor brought, Illusion's perfect triumphs come, — Verse ceases to be airy thought, And Sculpture to be dumb. CAMPBELL. IT was just a quarter to eight o'clock when our party, consisting of Colonel Bingham, Mr.... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1860 - 358 Seiten
...mute and motionless. Steals but a glance of time : But, by the mighty ACTOK brought Illusion's perfect triumphs come,— Verse ceases to be airy thought, And SCULPTURE to be dumb ! THE END. OF D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 846 & BROADWAY* Passages from the Autobiography of Sidney, Lady... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1860 - 368 Seiten
...motionless, Steals but a glance of time : FAREWELL. 347 But, by the mighty ACTOR brought Illusion's perfect triumphs come, — "Verse ceases to be airy thought, And SCULPTURE to be dumb ! THE END. CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT MAIN LIBRARY This book is due on the last date stamped below. 1-month... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1860 - 346 Seiten
...mute and motionless, Steals but a glance of time : But, by the mighty ACTOR brought Illusion's perfect triumphs come, — Verse ceases to be airy thought, And SCULPTURE to be dumb ! On the annexed page is given a part of a New York play bill, showing the cast, &c., of Mr. Charles... | |
 | Double acrostics - 1862 - 208 Seiten
...sister arts \V here all their beauty blends ; For, by the mighty actor brought, Illusion's perfect triumphs come, Verse ceases to be airy thought And sculpture to be dumb." 1. " Thy spirit on thy child hath shed The gift, the vision of the unsealed eye, To pierce the mists... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1864 - 784 Seiten
...motionless, Steals but a glance of time. But by the mignty Actor brought, Illusion's perfect triumph* come — Verse ceases to be airy thought, And Sculpture to be dumb." " High were the task — too high, Ye conscious bosoms here ! In words to paint your memory Of Kemble... | |
 | 1864 - 516 Seiten
...mute and motionless, Steals but a glance of time. But, by the mighty actor brought, Illusion's perfect triumphs come,— Verse ceases to be airy thought, And Sculpture to be dumb.J Colley Cibber writes with only natural esprit de corps, magnifying his office, and upholding... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1864 - 516 Seiten
...mute and motionless, Steals but a glance of time. But, by the mighty actor brought, Illusion's perfect triumphs come,— Verse ceases to be airy thought, And Sculpture to be dumb.J Colley Cibber writes with only natural esprit de corps, magnifying his office, and upholding... | |
 | 1870 - 758 Seiten
...Campbell, was recited by Young. The ode, which is very unequal, ends finely with the grand lines : " But, 'by the mighty actor brought, Illusion's wedded...ceases to be airy thought, And sculpture to be dumb." This great actor died in his pleasant and intellectual retirement at Lausanne, February 26th, 1828.... | |
 | 1866 - 524 Seiten
...mute and motionless, Steals but a glance of time. But by the mighty actor brought, Illusion's perfect triumphs come, — Verse ceases to be airy thought,...Sculpture to be dumb. Time may again revive, But ne'er eclipse the charm, When Cato spoke in him alive, Or Hotspur kindled warm. What soul was not resign'd... | |
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For ill can Poetry express Full many a tone of thought sublime, And Painting, mute and motionless, Steals but a glance of time. But by the mighty actor brought, Illusion's perfect triumphs come, — Verse ceases to be airy thought, And Sculpture to be... 
