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Alas, how soon the hours are over Counted us out to play the lover! And how much narrower is the stage Allotted us to play the sage! But when we play the fool, how wide The theatre expands! beside, How long the audience sits before us! How many prompters! What a chorus!
Alas, how soon the hours are over Counted us out to play the lover! And how much narrower is the stage Allotted us to play the sage! But when we play the fool, how wide The theatre expands! beside, How long the audience sits before us! How many prompters! What a chorus!
Approximate author period: c. 1819 AD · industrial
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- Walter Savage Landor
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- Approximate author period: c. 1819 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 322 · printed citation: W. S. Landor. · compiler notes excluded
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