While gradual parties fill our widen'd pit, And gape, and gaze, and wonder, ere they sit. At first, while vacant seats give choice and ease, Distant or near, they settle where they please ; But when the multitude contracts the span, And seats are rare,... Rejected Addresses: And Other Poems - Página 369de James Smith - 1860 - 414 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| James Smith - 1833 - 218 páginas
...the gallery-pane Tinge with his beam the beams of Drury Lane ; While gradual parties fill our widen'd pit, And gape, and gaze, and wonder, ere they sit...seats are rare, they settle where they can. Now the fiill benches to late-comers doom No room for standing, miscall'd standing room. Hark! the check-taker... | |
| 1838 - 588 páginas
...the gallery pane Tinge with his beam the beams of Drury-Lane, While gradual parties fill our widen'd pit, And gape, and gaze, and wonder, ere they sit....settle where they can. ' Now the full benches, to late comers, doom No room for standing, miscall'd standing room. ' Hark! the check-taker moody silence... | |
| Anonymous - 1813 - 552 páginas
...the gallery pane Tinge with his beam the beams of Drury Lane, While gradual parties fill our vviden'd pit, And gape, and gaze, and wonder, ere they sit....settle where they can. . Now the full benches, to late comers, doom No room for standing, m\sca\l'd standing room. Hark ! the check taker moody silence... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 590 páginas
...the gallery pane Tinge with his beam the beams of Drury-Lane, While gradual parties fill our widen'd pit, And gape, and gaze, and wonder, ere they sit. ' At first, while vacant seats give choice and case, Distant or near, they settle where they please; But when the multitude contracts the span, And... | |
| 1839 - 384 páginas
...Gallery pane, Tinge with his beam the beams of Drury-Lane ; While gradual parties fill our widened Pit, And gape, and gaze, and wonder ere they sit....they settle where they can. Now the full benches to late comers doom No room for standing, miscalled standing room. Hark ! the check-taker moody silence... | |
| James Smith, Horace Smith - 1841 - 200 páginas
...the gallery-pane Tinge with his beam the beams of Drury Lane ; While gradual parties fill our widened pit, And gape, and gaze, and wonder, ere they sit....benches to late-comers doom No room for standing, miscalled standing room. Hark ! the check-taker moody silence breaks, And bawling " Pit full ! " gives... | |
| James Smith - 1841 - 224 páginas
...Drury Lane; While gradual parties fill our widened pit, And gape, and gaze, and wonder, ere they sit. But when the multitude contracts the span, And seats...benches to late-comers doom No room for standing, miscalled standing room. Hark ! the check-taker moody silence breaks, And bawling " Pit full! " gives... | |
| 1842 - 1552 páginas
...pit — " At first, while vacant seals give choice and ease, Distant as near, they settle where they But when the multitude contracts the span, And seats are rare, they settle where they can." The rise of the foot-lights, daydawn of the stage, strike him with greater wonder : he supposes, in... | |
| John Fisher Murray - 1843 - 318 páginas
...popping out of holes : he grinneth with delight at the growing agregation of humanity in the pit — " At first while vacant seats give choice and ease,...span, And seats are rare, they settle where they can." The rise of the footlights, day-dawn of the stage, strike him with greater wonder : he supposes, in... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 622 páginas
...the gallery pane Tinge with his beam the beams of Drury Lane, While gradual parties fill our widen'd pit, And gape, and gaze, and wonder, ere they sit....settle where they can. " Now the full benches, to late comers, doom No room for standing, miscall'd standing room. " Hark ! the check-taker moody silence... | |
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