From “Prologue”
   [Spoken by Mr. Garrick at the opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane, in 1747.]

  WHEN Learning’s triumph o’er her barbarous foes
First reared the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose;
Each change of many-colored life he drew,
Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new:
Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign,
And panting Time...