The Life of David Garrick: From Original Family Papers, and Numerous Published and Unpublished Sources, Volumen2Tinsley brothers, 1868 |
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... mind at rest . He knew enough , he said , of Churchill's spirit and writings , to see that he would not tolerate any interference with his purposes . Wisely , therefore , thinking of the future more than of the past , he humbly told his ...
... mind at rest . He knew enough , he said , of Churchill's spirit and writings , to see that he would not tolerate any interference with his purposes . Wisely , therefore , thinking of the future more than of the past , he humbly told his ...
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... mind surpris- ingly " even ; " - never lost his head a moment , from praise , flattery , or success ; and never sank into depres- sion . He was presently to be more sorely tried . Mr. Garrick showed Davies , Lyttleton's reply ...
... mind surpris- ingly " even ; " - never lost his head a moment , from praise , flattery , or success ; and never sank into depres- sion . He was presently to be more sorely tried . Mr. Garrick showed Davies , Lyttleton's reply ...
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... mind on mind , not in the vulgar accessories of fires , " coal mines , imitation water , " bending trees , " and the like . These poor devices are usurping the place of what they are intended to set off . It was time indeed that some ...
... mind on mind , not in the vulgar accessories of fires , " coal mines , imitation water , " bending trees , " and the like . These poor devices are usurping the place of what they are intended to set off . It was time indeed that some ...
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... mind , and tortures sense , Malignity with impotence . This is something in the key of Churchill , and it does not seem improbable that it had been submitted to the satirist . There is a compliment to the open , courageous fashion in ...
... mind , and tortures sense , Malignity with impotence . This is something in the key of Churchill , and it does not seem improbable that it had been submitted to the satirist . There is a compliment to the open , courageous fashion in ...
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... mind . The mortification of that defeat , that public insult on his own boards , had gone home . The respect , the popularity of " the " Roscius " seemed to have great Garrick " and " Roscius ' decayed . These numerous attacks ...
... mind . The mortification of that defeat , that public insult on his own boards , had gone home . The respect , the popularity of " the " Roscius " seemed to have great Garrick " and " Roscius ' decayed . These numerous attacks ...
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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...