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Garrick's great distinction is his universality . He can represent all modes of life, but that of an easy fine bred gentleman . PENNINGTON. 'He should give over playing young parts. JOHNSON. 'He does not take them now; but he does not leave off those which he has been used to play, because he does them better than any one else can do them.
One of Garrick's correspondents speaks of 'the sneer of one of Johnson's ghastly smiles. Garrick Corres. i. 334. 'Ghastly smile' is borrowed from Paradise Lost, ii. 846. See ante, iii. 212. In Chambers's Traditions of Edinburgh, ii. 158, is given a comic poem entitled The Court of Session Garland, written by Boswell, with the help, it was said, of Maclaurin. Dr.
So that the value of Drury-Lane at present, and in the former sales, is out of all comparison, independently of the new building, superior size, raised prices, &c., &c. But the incumbrances on the theatre, whose annual charge must be paid before there can be any surplus profit, are much greater than in Mr. Garrick's time, or on the old theatre afterwards.
He would not have bidden his wife dress like an insect. Mrs. Thrale was to him "the first of womankind" only because his wife was dead. Beauclerc, we learn, was wont to cap Garrick's mimicry of Johnson's love- making by repeating the words of Johnson himself in after-years "It was a love-match on both sides." And obviously he was as strange a lover as they said. Who doubted it?
Garrick used to tell, that Johnson said of an actor, who played Sir Harry Wildair at Lichfield, 'There is a courtly vivacity about the fellow; when in fact, according to Garrick's account, 'he was the most vulgar ruffian that ever went upon boards. We had promised Mr. Stanton to be at his theatre on Monday. Dr.
An incident related by him often became upon the instant a little acted drama. His mimetic powers were in many respects marvellous. In voice, in countenance, in carriage, almost, it might be said, at moments, in stature, he seemed to be a Proteus. So exactly did he deliver this in Garrick's manner, that the acutest ear failed to distinguish the one from the other.
His acquaintance with Wycherley was possibly but at second-hand, and confined, perhaps, to Garrick's alteration of the Country Wife, in which the incident, already mentioned as having been borrowed for the Duenna, is preserved. Sheridan was ignorant: as it seems to contain much of that Hyle, or First Matter, out of which his own more perfect creations were formed.
They have not a proof of the contrary, as they have in Garrick's works but what is it to you or me what he is? We may see him act with pleasure, and nothing obliges us to read his writings. ARLINGTON STREET, April 9, 1772. It is uncommon for me to send you news of the Pretender. He has been married in Paris by proxy, to a Princess of Stolberg.
In February of the following year was founded that club which existed long without a name, but at Mr. Garrick's funeral became distinguished by the title of "The Literary Club." Sir Joshua Reynolds had the merit of being the first proposer of it, to which Johnson acceded, and the original members were Sir Joshua Reynolds, Dr. Johnson, Mr. Edmund Burke, Dr. Beauclerk, Mr. Langton, Dr.
Forster had a determined way with him, of forcing an answer that he wanted; driving you into a corner as it were. A capital illustration of this power occurred in my case. I had sent to a London "second hand" bookseller to supply me with a copy of the two quarto volumes of Garrick's life, "huge armfuls."
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