Read full poem →And if it can, at once both please and preach.
Let mine an innocent gay farce appear,
And more diverting still than regular,
Dictionary Entry
A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
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. farcefarce merefarce french
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Poetry examples for “farce”
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Read full poem →Fond to forget the statesman in the friend;
For Swift and him, despised the farce of state,
The sober follies of the wise and great;
Read full poem →Ambrose Philips, and Pope assisted him in the composition of his
luckless farce, 'Three Hours after Marriage'. When Gay's opera 'Polly'
was forbidden by the licenser, and Gay's patrons, the Duke and Duchess
Read full poem →JL his farce is an alteration of Ben Jonson's Alchymisi \
but it bears about as close a resemblance to that beautiful
Read full poem →How well did you know that life to a genius, a god,
Is naught but a farce! How well did you look with those eyes
As black as a beetle's through all the ridiculous show:
Read full poem →This drama of hard words unspoken,
This fireside farce, without a friend
Or enemy to comprehend
Read full poem →books, each number containing one historical play and
one farce. The first number contains the following plays:
Read full poem →Where sold he bargains, whip-stitch, kiss my arse,
Promis'd a play and dwindled to a farce?
When did his muse from Fletcher scenes purloin,
Read full poem →Borne in the vast balloon of Busby's song; 40
"Shine in your farce, masque, scenery, and play"
(For this last line George had a holiday).
Read full poem →For SWIFT and him despis’d the farce of state,