The Life of David Garrick: From Original Family Papers, and Numerous Published and Unpublished Sources, Volumen2Tinsley brothers, 1868 |
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... - mouth'd " Rosciad , and of Churchill bowing his " brutal form . " Colman , with equally refined satire , he called " the low - born Colman . " The portraits of Mossop and Barry are too well known THE LIFE OF DAVID GARRICK . [ 1761-
... - mouth'd " Rosciad , and of Churchill bowing his " brutal form . " Colman , with equally refined satire , he called " the low - born Colman . " The portraits of Mossop and Barry are too well known THE LIFE OF DAVID GARRICK . [ 1761-
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... Barry are too well known to be quoted . These were more elaborate than the rest , and more amusing . Mossop , was so " attached to military plan , " and kept his eyes fixed on his right - hand man . Barry was unfairly dismissed with the ...
... Barry are too well known to be quoted . These were more elaborate than the rest , and more amusing . Mossop , was so " attached to military plan , " and kept his eyes fixed on his right - hand man . Barry was unfairly dismissed with the ...
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... Barry , and the " profusion of softness " for which that actor was famed . But in the mixture , and whirl of passions , lay his real strength ; when rage , terror , grief , and even madness followed each other , in gusts as it were , he ...
... Barry , and the " profusion of softness " for which that actor was famed . But in the mixture , and whirl of passions , lay his real strength ; when rage , terror , grief , and even madness followed each other , in gusts as it were , he ...
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... Barry were playing Lear against each other , the latter , with all the advantages of his fine figure and bearing , could not approach him . Garrick's conception of Lear can be best shown by a comparison with this actor , which was not ...
... Barry were playing Lear against each other , the latter , with all the advantages of his fine figure and bearing , could not approach him . Garrick's conception of Lear can be best shown by a comparison with this actor , which was not ...
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... half a head shorter . But this notion may have been forced on the public mind from the actor's always appearing on the stage with tall men -like Barry , Woodward , John Palmer , William Smith 76 3 . [ 1763 . THE LIFE OF DAVID GARRICK .
... half a head shorter . But this notion may have been forced on the public mind from the actor's always appearing on the stage with tall men -like Barry , Woodward , John Palmer , William Smith 76 3 . [ 1763 . THE LIFE OF DAVID GARRICK .
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Página 418 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Página 404 - As an actor, confess'd without rival to shine ; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line : Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting ; 'Twas only that when he was off he was acting.
Página 159 - Farewell, great painter of mankind ! Who reach'd the noblest point of art, Whose pictured morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart. If Genius fire thee, reader, stay, If nature touch thee, drop a tear, If neither move thee — turn away — For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here.
Página 360 - Here, Hermes, says Jove, who with nectar was mellow, Go fetch me some clay— I will make an odd fellow: Right and wrong shall be jumbled, much gold and some dross, Without cause be he...
Página 308 - In expressing slowness of apprehension, this actor surpassed all others. You could see the first dawn of an idea stealing slowly over his countenance, climbing up by little and little, with a painful process, till it cleared up at last to the fulness of a twilight conception — its highest meridian.
Página 360 - I'll bestow it. This scholar, rake, Christian, dupe, gamester, and poet ; Though a mixture so odd, he shall merit great fame, And among brother mortals — be GOLDSMITH his name : When on earth this strange meteor no more shall appear, You, Hermes, shall fetch him to make us sport here.
Página 110 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; ' Why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 110 - And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company ; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Página 404 - Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man ; As an actor, confest without rival to shine; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line : Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art.
Página 404 - But peace to his spirit, wherever it flies, To act as an angel and mix with the skies : Those poets, who owe their best fame to his skill, Shall still be his flatterers, go where he will : Old...