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The whole of this scene is "admirable fooling;" and it was afterwards impudently stolen by Theophilus Cibber for his farce of the Auction. The Historical Register concludes with a dialogue between Quidam, in whom the audience recognised Sir Robert Walpole, and four patriots, to whom he gives a purse which has an instantaneous effect upon their opinions.
But they are worse than merely licentious: they are positively villanous; pregnant with the most redemptionless /scoundrelism/, cheating, lying, thieving, and fraud; their humour debauches the whole moral system; they are like the Sardinian herb, they make you laugh, it is true, but they poison you in the act. But who comes here?" "Oh, honest Coll! Ah, Cibber, how goes it with you?"
The contest is now over . 'Garrick's gaiety of conversation has delicacy and elegance: Foote makes you laugh more; but Foote has the air of a buffoon paid for entertaining the company. He, indeed, well deserves his hire . 'Colley Cibber once consulted me as to one of his birth-day Odes, a long time before it was wanted. I objected very freely to several passages.
In the Spectator Steele paid him a tribute of cordial admiration; and Cibber, noticing the marvellous fidelity of his imitations, has recorded, "This man was so amazing and extraordinary a mimic, that no man or woman, from the coquette to the privy counsellor, ever moved or spoke before him, but he could carry their voice, look, mien, and motion instantly into another company.
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.
And then with all her dash, and fire, and bravado, she was a thorough woman. "Margaret!" "Ernest!" "I want to ask you a question. Did you really cry because that Miss Bellamy had dresses from Paris?" "It does not seem very likely." "No, but tell me; did you?" "Who said I did?" "Mr. Cibber." "Old fool!" "Yes, but did you?" "Did I what?" "Cry!" "Ernest, the minx's dresses were beautiful."
"That is to praise my person at the expense of my wit, sir, is it not?" was her reply. This was the first word she had ever addressed to him. The tones appeared so sweet to him that he could not find anything to reply for listening to them; and Cibber resumed: "Meantime, I will show you a real actress; she is coming here to-night to meet me. Did ever you children hear of Ann Bracegirdle?"
For he never dreamed, did this haggling, pettifogging lawyer, that Swiney would swerve from the old time allegiance to him, and he felt so secure on this point that he privately encouraged the desertion of his own forces. He made one exception, however, by stipulating that Cibber should remain at Drury Lane.
As Laureate Cibber drew near the end of earthly things, a desire, common to poetical as well as political potentates, possessed him, a desire to nominate a successor. In his case, indeed, the idea may have been borrowed from "MacFlecknoe" or the "Dunciad."
After the Three Hours After Marriage had been driven off the stage, by the offence which the mummy and crocodile gave the audience, while the exploded scene was yet fresh in memory, it happened that Cibber played Bayes in the Rehearsal; and, as it had been usual to enliven the part by the mention of any recent theatrical transactions, he said, that he once thought to have introduced his lovers disguised in a mummy and a crocodile.
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