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There were no bye-intimations to make the audience fancy their own discernment so much greater than that of the Moor who commonly stands like a great helpless mark set up for mine Ancient, and a quantity of barren spectators, to shoot their bolts at. The Iago of Bensley did not go to work so grossly.
She ended her London career in 1816 and died in 1829. Of all the actors. The London Magazine article began at this point. G.H. Boaden and George Colman both bear out Lamb's eulogy of Bensley as Malvolio; but otherwise he is not the subject of much praise. Venetian incendiary. Pierre in Otway's "Venice Preserved." Lamb appended the passage in a footnote in the London Magazine.
A snorting sound, which, accompanied by a terrific clatter of old iron and the crunching of road-mendings, had been steadily growing from distant to near, and from loud to deafening, now reached a pitch of utter indescribability; and as a large splay-wheeled, tall-funneled, plowing engine rolled off the Bensley highroad and lumbered in upon the right-of-way, the powerful bouquet of hot lubricating oil nullified all other smells, and the atmosphere became opaque to the point of solidity.
There must have been some shadow of worth about the man; he must have been something more than a mere vapour a thing of straw, or Jack in office before Fabian and Maria could have ventured sending him upon a courting-errand to Olivia. Bensley, accordingly, threw over the part an air of Spanish loftiness. He looked, spake, and moved like an old Castilian.
Here it was that the native bearers abandoned the wounded in the doolies which poor Bensley Thornhill was trying to guide into the Residency; here it was where they were butchered and burned as they lay, and here it was where Dr.
The personal elegance of the sovereign, and the luxurious details of the scene are in fine keeping with the minuteness of history in these matters. The Trial Scene in the Merchant of Venice. Zoffani. With Macklin, The Jew That Shakspeare drew; his daughter as Portia, in the habiliaments of "the learned lawyer;" Clark, Bensley, &c. Portrait of Bishop Hoadley. Hogarth. Banks of the Tiber. Wilson.
Who could suppose it was to introduce a comedy, when Mr. Bensley solemnly began, 'Press'd with the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind. But this dark ground might make Goldsmith's humour shine the more. In the spring of this year, having published my Account of Corsica, with the Journal of a Tour to that Island, I returned to London, very desirous to see Dr.
Sir Benjamin had taken Jack to dine with him at two of his clubs and after dining they had gone to see the great actor Robert Bensley as Malvolio and the Comedian Dodd as Sir Andrew Aguecheek. The Britisher had been most polite, but had seemed studiously to avoid mention of the subject nearest the heart of the young man.
Other monuments commemorate Captain Graham of the Bengal Cavalry and two children; Mr. Fairhurst the Roman Catholic chaplain; Major Banks; Captain Fulton of the 32nd who earned the title of "Defender of Lucknow;" Lucas, the travelling Irish gentleman who served as a volunteer and fell in the last sortie; Captain Becher; Captain Moorsom; poor Bensley Thornhill and his young daughter; "Mrs.
Between the Countess herself, serious or dissembling for one hardly knows how to apprehend this fantastical great lady and the practices of that delicious little piece of mischief, Maria The lime twigs laid By Machiavel the waiting maid the man might well be rapt into a fool's paradise. Bensley threw over the part an air of Spanish loftiness. He looked, spake, and moved like an old Castilian.
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