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... Garrick , at the opening of the Theatre Royal , Drury Lane , 1747 162 Irene , a tragedy 169 Epilogue to ditto 261 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS . Prologue , spoken by Mr. Garrick , April 5 , 1750 , before the Masque of Comus . Acted at Drury Lane ...
... Garrick , at the opening of the Theatre Royal , Drury Lane , 1747 162 Irene , a tragedy 169 Epilogue to ditto 261 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS . Prologue , spoken by Mr. Garrick , April 5 , 1750 , before the Masque of Comus . Acted at Drury Lane ...
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... Garrick , whose father , Captain Garrick , lived at Lichfield , was placed in the new seminary of education by that gentleman's advice . Garrick was then about eigh- teen years old . An accession of seven or eight pupils was the most ...
... Garrick , whose father , Captain Garrick , lived at Lichfield , was placed in the new seminary of education by that gentleman's advice . Garrick was then about eigh- teen years old . An accession of seven or eight pupils was the most ...
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... Garrick's father had little more than his half - pay . The two fellow - travellers had the world before them , and each was to chuse his road to fortune and to fame . They brought with them genius , and powers of mind , peculiarly ...
... Garrick's father had little more than his half - pay . The two fellow - travellers had the world before them , and each was to chuse his road to fortune and to fame . They brought with them genius , and powers of mind , peculiarly ...
Pagina 30
... Garrick used to render ridiculous by his mimicry . The affectation of soft and fashionable airs did not become an un- wieldy figure ; his admiration was received by the wife with the flutter of an antiquated coquette ; and both , it is ...
... Garrick used to render ridiculous by his mimicry . The affectation of soft and fashionable airs did not become an un- wieldy figure ; his admiration was received by the wife with the flutter of an antiquated coquette ; and both , it is ...
Pagina 36
... . In his high and decisive tone , he has been often heard to say , " Lord Chesterfield is a Wit among Lords , and a Lord among Wits . " * Letter CCXII . In the course of the year 1747 , Garrick , 36 AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND.
... . In his high and decisive tone , he has been often heard to say , " Lord Chesterfield is a Wit among Lords , and a Lord among Wits . " * Letter CCXII . In the course of the year 1747 , Garrick , 36 AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND.
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Pagina 152 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Pagina 153 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes, nor want nor cold his course delay; — Hide, blushing glory, hide Pultowa's day...
Pagina 115 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Pol. ' That's very true, my lord. Ham. For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion — 'Have you a daughter ? Pol. I have, my lord. Ham. Let her not walk i' the sun : conception is a blessing ; but not as your daughter may conceive.
Pagina 157 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Pagina 150 - The liv'r.it£i army, and the menial lord. With age, with cares, with maladies, oppress'd, He seeks the refuge of monastic rest. Grief aids disease, remember'd folly stings, And his last sighs reproach the faith of kings.
Pagina 28 - The rest of the company bestowed lavish encomiums on Johnson: one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing, that he dealt out reason and eloquence, with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.
Pagina 151 - Till captive Science yields her last retreat; Should Reason guide thee with her brightest ray, And pour on misty doubt resistless day; Should no false kindness lure to loose delight, Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain; Should Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a letter...
Pagina 156 - New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns. Now kindred Merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated Friendship claims a tear; Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and...
Pagina 36 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Pagina 158 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.