The Life of David Garrick, Esq, Bind 1J. Wright, 1801 - 389 sider |
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... avowing a truth , which I have for a long time felt warm at my heart . Gratitude extorts it from me : I must , there- fore , take the liberty to say , that the favours favours I have received from Mr. COUTTS , have made iv DEDICATION .
... avowing a truth , which I have for a long time felt warm at my heart . Gratitude extorts it from me : I must , there- fore , take the liberty to say , that the favours favours I have received from Mr. COUTTS , have made iv DEDICATION .
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... heart in several pas- sages , but he could not , with propriety , repre- sent the old king out of his senses . He started , took long and hasty steps , stared about him in a vague wild manner , and his voice was by no means in unison ...
... heart in several pas- sages , but he could not , with propriety , repre- sent the old king out of his senses . He started , took long and hasty steps , stared about him in a vague wild manner , and his voice was by no means in unison ...
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... heart - felt delight , he suddenly dropped the infant , and instantly broke out in a most violent agony of grief , so tender , so affecting , and pathetic , that every eye in company was moistened with a gush of tears . There it was ...
... heart - felt delight , he suddenly dropped the infant , and instantly broke out in a most violent agony of grief , so tender , so affecting , and pathetic , that every eye in company was moistened with a gush of tears . There it was ...
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... hearts , and has , perhaps , been 66 66 oftenest acted of any , which have come upon our stage , is almost one continued " moral ; a series of deep reflections , drawn 66 66 60 66 from one mouth , upon the subject of one single accident ...
... hearts , and has , perhaps , been 66 66 oftenest acted of any , which have come upon our stage , is almost one continued " moral ; a series of deep reflections , drawn 66 66 60 66 from one mouth , upon the subject of one single accident ...
Side 55
... bee ; And when your heart - strings shall with pity crack , With empty arms I'll bear you on my back , A pick - a - pack , a pick - a - pack . In this manner he exposed the fashionable er- rors of E 4 In DAVID GARRICK . 55.
... bee ; And when your heart - strings shall with pity crack , With empty arms I'll bear you on my back , A pick - a - pack , a pick - a - pack . In this manner he exposed the fashionable er- rors of E 4 In DAVID GARRICK . 55.
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Aaron Hill actor admired alterations appeared applause Athelstan audience Barry Bayes beautiful Belvidera Boadicea brother called catastrophe celebrated CHAP character Cibber comedy comic Creusa critics crowded DAVID GARRICK Decemvir distress dramatic Drury-Lane Dublin Duke Dumnorix elegant engaged English Epigram Epitasis excellent fable fame farce father favour Fleetwood fourth act gave genius give Goodman's Fields heart honour humour Jaffier Johnson judgement King King Lear Lacy Livy Lord Lord Chamberlain lover Macbeth Macklin Mallet manager manner mind month moral Mossop murder nature never night occasion Oroonoko Othello passions pathetic performers piece play plot poet Pritchard Prologue Quin racter resolved revived rick Roman Romeo Samuel Johnson says scene season sentiments September Shakespeare shew soon spirit stage stile success taste tender theatre thought tion tragedy virtue voice Voltaire Whitehead whole wife WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Woodward writer written Xuthus young
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Side 80 - What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Side 75 - That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch this weak superstitious part of his reader's imagination ; and made him capable of succeeding, where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.
Side 190 - Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Side 75 - ... we have no rule by which to judge of them, and must confess, if there are such beings in the world, it looks highly probable they should talk and act as he has represented them.
Side 284 - I'll change my note soon, and, I hope, for the better. May the right use of letters, as well as of men, • Hereafter be fixed by the tongue and the pen. Most devoutly I wish they may both have their due, And that / may be never mistaken for U.
Side 45 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Side 336 - Falling in the other day at a victualling-house near the house of peers, I heard the maid come down and tell the landlady at the bar, that my lord bishop swore he would throw her out at window, if she did not bring up more mild beer, and that my lord duke would have a double mug of purl.
Side 310 - ... tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only Merit constant pay receives, Is...
Side 30 - ... presence. But the guest at his right hand, a happy-looking, red-faced, welldressed man, soon drew his attention towards me. The party to whom I was thus indebted seemed a very joviallooking personage, and appeared to be well known to all hands, and indeed the life of the party, for, like Falstaff, he was not only witty in himself, but the cause of wit in others.
Side 101 - His gardens next your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene: Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.