Prologue
书迷正在阅读:和离前夫君失忆了 , 会啵啵的鸭舌帽 , 炼丹师的现代修真日常 , 影后不该讨厌我 , 我的意中猪 , 拯救流量小花系统[重生] , 女神的异能保镖 , 万年老二的反击[穿书] , 青天记 , 无我 , 勾引龙的正确方式 , 男配大佬不对劲啊
prologue spoken by mr. woods on his be-night, monday, 16th april, 1787. when, by a generous public's kind acclaim, that dearest meed is granted—ho fame; waen here your favour is the actor's lot, nor even the man in private life fot; what breast so dead to heavenly virtue's glow, but heaves impassion'd with the grateful throe? poor is the task to please a barb'rous throng, it needs no siddons' powers in southern's song; but here an a nation, fam'd afar, fenius, learning high, as great in war. hail, caledonia, name for ever dear! before whose sons i'm honour'd to appear? where every sce, every nobler art, that inform the mind or mend the heart, is known; as grateful nations oft have found, far as the rude barbarian marks the bound. philosophy, no idle pedant dream, here holds her search by heaven-taught reason's beam; here history paints with elegand force the tide of empire's fluctuating course; here douglas forms w