OR, A School for Fathers. A COMIC OPERA. BY ISAAC BICKERSTAFF, ESQ. CORRECTLY GIVEN, FROM COPIES USED IN THE THEATRES, BY THOMAS DIBDIN, Author of several Dramatic Pieces: and Printed at the Chiswick Press, FOR WHITTINGHAM AND ARLISS, PATERNOSTER LIONEL AND CLARISSA, FIRST acted at Covent Garden, A. D. 1768, was most favourably received, and has kept possession of the stage in the very first ranks of English opera. The author says of it (and, although it is evidence in his own favour, the public seem to have given him due credit), "It was the general opinion of all my friends, some of whom rank among the best judges, that of all my trifles, LIONEL AND CLARISSA was the most pardonable: a decision in its favour which I was the prouder of, because, to the best of my knowledge, through the whole, I had not borrowed an expression, a sentiment, or a character, from any dramatic work extant." AH, how delightful the morning, How sweet are the prospects it yields! The gardens, the groves, and the fields. Its pleasures let's employ; Kind nature gives, and reason Permits us to enjoy. Col. O. Well said, Dy, thank you, Dy. This, master Jenkins, is the way I make my daughter entertain me every morning at breakfast. Come here and kiss me, you slut; come here and kiss me, you baggage. Diana. Lord, papa, you call one such names |