Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, Esq: Interspersed with Characters and Anecdotes of His Theatrical Contemporaries. The Whole Forming a History of the Stage, which Includes a Period of Thirty-six Years, Volumen2The author, 1781 |
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Página 91 - with rouge his own natural red : On the ftage he' was natural, fimple, affec/ting : 'Twas only that when he was off he was acting. With no reafon on earth to go out of his way, He turn''d and he varied full ten times a day
Página 197 - His gallants are all faultlefs, his women divine; And Comedy wonders at being fo fine. Like a tragedy queen he has dizen'd her out, Or rather like Tragedy giving a rout. His fools have their follies fo loft in a crowd Of virtues and feelings, that Folly grows proud
Página 197 - his parts; The Terence of England, the mender of hearts; A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as
Página 91 - Now mix thefe ingredients, which, warm'd in the baking, Turn to learning and gaming, religion, and raking^ With the love of a wench, let his writings be chafte, Tip his tongue with ftrange matter, his pen with fine tafte.
Página 314 - vaft and unconfin'd, If feweft faults with greateft beauties join'd, If ftrong expreffion, and ftrange pow'rs which lie Within the magic circle of the eye, If feelings which few hearts like his can know, And which no face fo well as his can
Página 91 - like thefe and an excellent heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he fpread, And
Página 308 - will be long remembered; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend: but, what are the hopes of man
Página 198 - And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, are proud of their own. Say, where has our poet this malady caught ? Or wherefore his characters
Página 307 - you deem it wonderful to find, Ambition cur'd, and an unpaffion'd mind; A ftatefman, without power and without gall, Hating no courtiers, happier than them all; Bow'd to no yoke, nor crouching for applaufe; Vot'ry, alone, to freedom and the laws. Herds, flocks, and
Página 25 - him what it was that employed his ftudies. " Why, upon my word, faid Mallet, I am eternally fatigued with preparing and arranging materials for the life of the great Duke of Marlborough ; all my nights and days are occupied with that hiftory; and you know, Mr. Garrick, that it is a very bright and