{"product_id":"2940012913012","title":"THE FATAL FALSEHOOD: A TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS.","description":"• \"TYPE 'SOGAN' IN THE NOOK BOOK SEARCH BOX TO VIEW ALL MY TITLES!\"\u003cbr\u003e• Table of contents with working links to chapters is included\u003cbr\u003e• The book has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors\u003cbr\u003e• New and improved version\u003cbr\u003e• \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur modern poets now can scarcely choose\u003cbr\u003eA subject worthy of the Tragic Muse;\u003cbr\u003eFor bards so well have glean'd th' historic field,\u003cbr\u003eThat scarce one sheaf th' exhausted ancients yield;\u003cbr\u003eOr if, perchance, they from the golden crop\u003cbr\u003eSome grains, with hand penurious, rarely drop;\u003cbr\u003eOur author these consigns to manly toil,\u003cbr\u003eFor classic themes demand a classic soil,\u003cbr\u003eA vagrant she, the desert waste who chose,\u003cbr\u003eWhere Truth and History no restraints impose.\u003cbr\u003eTo her the wilds of fiction open lie,\u003cbr\u003eA flow'ry prospect, and a boundless sky;\u003cbr\u003eYet hard the task to keep the onward way,\u003cbr\u003eWhere the wide scenery lures the foot to stray;\u003cbr\u003eWhere no severer limits check the Muse,\u003cbr\u003eThan lawless fancy is dispos'd to choose.\u003cbr\u003eNor does she emulate the loftier strains\u003cbr\u003eWhich high heroic Tragedy maintains:\u003cbr\u003eNor conquests she, nor wars, nor triumphs sings,\u003cbr\u003eNor with rash hand o'erturns the thrones of kings.\u003cbr\u003eNo ruin'd empires greet to night your eyes,\u003cbr\u003eNo nations at our bidding fall or rise;\u003cbr\u003eTo statesmen deep, to politicians grave,\u003cbr\u003eThese themes congenial to their tastes we leave.\u003cbr\u003eOf crowns and camps, a kingdom's weal or woe,\u003cbr\u003eHow few can judge, because how few can know!\u003cbr\u003eBut here you all may boast the censor's art;\u003cbr\u003eHere all are critics who possess a heart.\u003cbr\u003eOf the mix'd passions we display to-night,\u003cbr\u003eEach hearer judges like the Stagyrite.\u003cbr\u003eThe scenes of private life our author shows,\u003cbr\u003eA simple story of domestic woes;\u003cbr\u003eNor unimportant is the glass we hold,\u003cbr\u003eTo show th' effect of passions uncontroll'd;\u003cbr\u003eTo govern empires is the lot of few,\u003cbr\u003eBut all who live have passions to subdue.\u003cbr\u003eSelf-conquest is the lesson books should preach,\u003cbr\u003eSelf-conquest is the theme the Stage should teach.\u003cbr\u003eVouchsafe to learn this obvious duty here,\u003cbr\u003eThe verse though feeble, yet the moral's clear.\u003cbr\u003eO mark to-night the unexampled woes\u003cbr\u003eWhich from unbounded self-indulgence flows.\u003cbr\u003eYour candour once endur'd our author's lays,\u003cbr\u003eEndure them now—it will be ample praise.","brand":"vladislav sogan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069634035952,"sku":"2940012913012","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012913012_p0.jpg?v=1763573866","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012913012","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}