 | William Henry Irving - 1928 - 508 σελίδες
...of the day was "Orator" Henley, to whom Pope refers good naturedly in the Dunciad: O great restorer of the good old stage, Preacher at once, and Zany of thy age. He it was who engaged in a public controversy with Foote, the comedian, in the Haymarket, and beat... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 1994 - 276 σελίδες
...aspiration to be an orator, Henley appears rather to be the "zany" of an opera buffa: Oh great Restorer of the good old Stage, Preacher at once, and Zany of thy Age! Oh worthy thou of ¿Egypt's wise abodes, A decent Priest, where monkeys were the Gods! (201-4) Henley may have styled... | |
 | James E. Gill - 1995 - 468 σελίδες
...stands, Tuning his voice, and balancing his hands. How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue! . . . Preacher at once, and Zany of thy Age! Oh worthy thou of /Egypt's wise abodes, A decent Priest, where monkeys were the Gods! (3.195-97, 202-4) At first glance,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 σελίδες
...benches, Henley! with thy strain, While Sherlock, Hare, and Gibson preach in vain. Oh great restorer of the good old stage, Preacher at once, and zany of thy age! Oh worthy thou of Egypt's wise abodes, A decent priest, where monkeys were the gods! But fate with butchers placed thy... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 592 σελίδες
...trickles from his tongue ! How sweet the periods, neither said nor sung ! . . . Oh, great restorer of the good old stage, Preacher at once and zany of thy age ! Oh, worthy thou of Egypt's wise abodes ; A decent priest where monkeys were the gods ! The J)unciad (1742). Orator Hunt,... | |
 | John Richetti - 2005 - 974 σελίδες
...the point made by Pope's phrasing in The Dunciad Variorum, when he calls Henley 'Oh great Restorer of the good old Stage, / Preacher at once, and Zany of thy Age!'(in, 201-2).49 The intermingling of popular literary forms and entertainments with commercialised... | |
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Oh, great restorer of the good old stage, Preacher at once, and zany of thy age... 
