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On the whole, the work was productive of no profit to the undertakers, who had agreed, in case of success, to make Cibber a present of some addition to the twenty guineas which he had received, and for which his receipt is now in the booksellers' hands. 'As to the alledged design of making the compilement pass for the work of old Mr.
They were seen by Pope and by Cibber, who relates that Steele, when he took back the copy, told him, in the despicable cant of literary modesty, that, whatever spirit his friend had shown in the composition, he doubted whether he would have courage sufficient to expose it to the censure of a British audience.
On her first theatrical attempts, so little hopes were entertained of her, that she was, as Cibber declares, discharged the company at the end of the first year, among others that were thought to be a useless expense to it.
Barry, both at court and in the city. "Mrs. Barry," says Dryden, in his Preface to Cleomenes, "always excellent, has in this tragedy excelled herself, and gained a reputation beyond any woman I have ever seen on the theatre." "In characters of greatness," says Cibber, "Mrs.
"Cibber Cibber who be Cibber?" queries the Prince, a beery look in his eye, a foreign accent on his tongue. "He's the son of the sculptor, Caius Gabriel Cibber, your Highness." "I do not know I do not know," mutters George drowsily.
Jemmy, what an ass you must be!" "Mrs. Cibber always makes me cry, and t'other always makes me laugh," said Quin, stoutly, "that's why." Ce beau raisonnement met no answer, but a look of sovereign contempt. A very trifling incident saved the ladies of the British stage from further criticism.
Yet, prompted by the "Dunciad," it is the fashion of literature to regard Theobald with compassion, as a block-head and empiric. Cibber escapes but little better, and yet he was a man of respectable talent, and played no second-rate part in the literary history of the time.
This exhibition of a spirit so commonplace and inartistic proved too much for Cibber. Perhaps he might have pardoned it had there been no salary owing him, for your greatest apostle of the drama will sometimes do a good deal of winking at glaring inconsistencies when a money quid pro quo looms up in the distance.
"When I found him, as I thought, so insensible, or impregnable, I look'd gravely in his face, and told him He knew upon what terms I was willing to serve him, and took my leave." Shortly after the interview Cibber joined the Haymarket company, and one result of his defection was an open quarrel between Rich and Swiney. This season of 1706-7 was a memorable one for Oldfield.
He was a poor Lothario, a ridiculous Othello, inferior to Quin in Sir John Brute and Macbeth, and to Cibber in Bayes, and a woful Lord Hastings and Lord Townley. Indeed, his Bayes was original, but not the true part: Cibber was the burlesque of a great poet, as the part was designed, but Garrick made it a Garretteer.
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