"Support our virtue:--kindle in our souls / A ray of your divine enthusiasm; / Such as inflames the patriot's breast, and lifts / Th'impassion'd mind to that sublime of virtue, / That even on the rack it feels the good, / Which in a single hour it works for millions, / And leaves the legacy to after times."
The Orphan of China, A Tragedy
First performed April 21, 1759. 10 entries in ESTC (1759, 1761, 1763, 1772, 1787, 1797).<br>
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Text from <u>The Orphan of China, A Tragedy, As It Is Perform'd at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane.</u> (London: Printed for P. Vaillant, 1759).