 THE play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow falling, to the prompter's bell : A moment yet the actor stops, And looks around, to say farewell. It is an irksome word and task ; And when he's laughed and said his say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A...  Ballads and Songs - Page 262by William Makepeace Thackeray - 1906 - 276 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 116 pages
...pupils of Birch's ; and I wish a merry Christmas to them, and to all young and old boys. EPILOGUE. THE play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow falling,...farewell. It is an irksome word and task ; And when he 's laughed and said his say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A face that's anything but gay. One... | |
 | 1853 - 800 pages
...of feeling. A more touching .-.train we do not recollect.— [Ed. Sou. Lit. Met*. The play U donc ; the curtain drops, Slow falling, to the prompter's bell ; A moment yet the actor stop«, And looks around to say farewell. It is an irksome word and task ; And when he's laughed and... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 110 pages
...pupils of Birch's ; and I wish a merry Christmas to them, and to all young and old hoys. EPILOGUE. THE play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow falling,...shows, as he removes the mask, A face that's anything hut gay. One word, ere yet the evening ends, Let's close it with a parting rhyme,' And pledge a hand... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 260 pages
...unkindly this little word of me : Heaven be merciful to us all, sinners as we be ! THE END OF THE PLAY. THE play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow falling...say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A face that's any thing but gay. One word, ere yet the evening ends, Let's close it with a parting rhyme, And pledge... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Christmas - 1857 - 290 pages
...Christmas-day ; and so I wish a merry Christmas to all young and old boys. AND HIS YOUNG FRIENDS. 45 EPILOGUE. THE play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow falling,...anything but gay. One word, ere yet the evening ends, Let 's close it with a parting rhyme, And pledge a hand to all young friends, As fits the merry Christmas... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...heart, whate'er the meal is THE END OF THE PLAY. TUE play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow fulling to the prompter's bell : A moment yet the actor stops,...say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A face that's any thing but gay. One word, ere yet the evening ends. Let's close it with a parting rhyme, And pledge... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...And sit you down and say your grace With thankful heart, whate'er the meal is. THE END OF THE PLAY. THE play is .done ; the curtain drops. Slow falling to the prompter's boll : A moment yet the actor stops, And looks around to say farewell. It is an irksome word and task... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1859 - 670 pages
...glances a mortifying reflection on the shortness of human life and the vanity of human pleasures."! The play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's Dell : A moment yet the actor stops, And looks around, to say farewell. It is an irksome word and task... | |
 | Literature - 1864 - 672 pages
...strutted out. No wonder that the master Showman of Vanity Fair should pen an envoi after this fashion : The play is done ; the curtain drops, Slow falling...farewell. It is an irksome word and task; And, when he's laugh'd and said his say, He shows, as he removes the mask, 1 A face that's anything but gay.J Horace... | |
 | 1864 - 30 pages
...human goodness which gives the key-note to all his works. Whatever he may write, as he himself says, "He shows as he removes the mask A face that's anything but gay." And his moral is always the same : — " The strong may yield, the good may fall, The great man be... | |
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