Thine too these golden keys, immortal boy!
This can unlock the gates of Joy;
Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears,
Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode, 1759, iii. 1.
DAVID MALLET, 1759
(1705?-1765)
Pride of his own, and wonder of this age,
Who first created, and yet rules, the Stage,
Bold to design, all powerful to express,