The Life of David Garrick, Esq, Bind 1J. Wright, 1801 - 389 sider |
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... revived as written by Shakespeare - Par- ties formed against Garrick before he acted the part , but all in vain - Garrick's per- formance triumphed over all malignity— Observations on the play - Account of Garrick's and Mrs. Pritchard's ...
... revived as written by Shakespeare - Par- ties formed against Garrick before he acted the part , but all in vain - Garrick's per- formance triumphed over all malignity— Observations on the play - Account of Garrick's and Mrs. Pritchard's ...
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... revived with great applause - Garrick in the part of Zaphna : Page 88 CHAP . IX . Garrick in the character of Sir John Brute- Cibber's tragedy of Papal Tyranny in the reign of King John , acted at Covent - Gar- den - Garrick revives ...
... revived with great applause - Garrick in the part of Zaphna : Page 88 CHAP . IX . Garrick in the character of Sir John Brute- Cibber's tragedy of Papal Tyranny in the reign of King John , acted at Covent - Gar- den - Garrick revives ...
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... revived , and meets with opposition Garrick's alteration of Romeo and Juliet— The catastrophe first altered by Otway , and greatly improved by Garrick - Romeo given to Barry , who acquits himself with great applause - Mrs . Cibber ...
... revived , and meets with opposition Garrick's alteration of Romeo and Juliet— The catastrophe first altered by Otway , and greatly improved by Garrick - Romeo given to Barry , who acquits himself with great applause - Mrs . Cibber ...
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... revived at Drury - Lane → Part of the plot admirably conducted- Description of the temple admired by Dr. Johnson - Meeting of Almeria and her husband , Alphonso , well contrived , and pathetic - Pantomime of Queen Mab . Page 188 CHAP ...
... revived at Drury - Lane → Part of the plot admirably conducted- Description of the temple admired by Dr. Johnson - Meeting of Almeria and her husband , Alphonso , well contrived , and pathetic - Pantomime of Queen Mab . Page 188 CHAP ...
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... revived with con- siderable success - Congreve's opinion of the play , as related by Cibber himself— Woodward in Sir Novelty Fashion . Page 212 CHAP . XX . Mossop , from the Dublin Theatre , engaged at Drury - Lane - Account of his ...
... revived with con- siderable success - Congreve's opinion of the play , as related by Cibber himself— Woodward in Sir Novelty Fashion . Page 212 CHAP . XX . Mossop , from the Dublin Theatre , engaged at Drury - Lane - Account of his ...
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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.