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I had even then a more moderate opinion of my abilities than your candour would allow me, and have always acknowledged that gentleman's picture of me was fair. He adds that he left the stage on account of Garrick's unkindness, 'who, he says, 'at rehearsals took all imaginable pains to make me unhappy. Garrick Corres. i. 165.
No one can more rejoice at this circumstance than I do; and as I hope we shall have a bonfire upon the occasion, I beg that you will light it with the inclosed. The inclosed was a bond for £280. Garrick Corres. ii. 297. Murphy says: 'Dr.
He was two nights at Auchinleck, and you may figure the joy of my worthy father and me at seeing the Corsican hero in our romantic groves. Garrick Corres. i. 436. See ante, p. 252. James Durham, born 1622, died 1658, wrote many theological works. Chalmers's Biog. Dict. In the Brit. Mus. Cata.
Garrick one day since we were married, near twenty-eight years, I cannot now leave her. Garrick Corres. ii. 150. 'Garrick's widow is buried with him. She survived him forty-three years "a little bowed-down old woman, who went about leaning on a gold-headed cane, dressed in deep widow's mourning, and always talking of her dear Davy." Love's Labour's Lost, act ii. sc. i. See ante, ii. 461.
'It was, he writes, 'a pine-apple of the finest flavour, which had a high zest indeed among the heath-covered mountains of Scotia. Garrick Corres. i. 621. See ante, p. 115. See ante, i. 97. 'Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane. Macbeth, act v. sc. 8. 'From his first entrance to the closing scene Let him one equal character maintain. FRANCIS. Horace, Ars Poet. l. 126.
James's, he was enabled to detail the particulars from the lips of the members of the deputation. Alderman Townshend assured Lord Chatham that Beckford did deliver the speech. Chatham Corres. iii. 460. Horne Tooke's word is not worth much.
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.
I have observed he disliked any allusion to the book or to Johnson himself, and I have heard that Johnson's fine picture by Sir Joshua was sent upstairs out of the sitting apartments at Auchinleck. Croker Corres. ii. 32. Charles Morrison. 'I have always said that first Whig was the devil. Ante, iii. 326 See ante, ii. 26. Dr.
Couthouy's "Remarks," page 51; but this principal fact, namely, that there is a mass of upraised coral on the narrow peninsula of Tiarubu, is from hearsay evidence; also Mr. Stutchbury, "West of England Journal," No. i., page 54. There is a passage in Von Zach, "Corres.
Burke, writing in 1794, says: 'In quarters the innkeepers are obliged to find for the soldiers lodging, fire, candle-light, small-beer, salt and vinegar gratis. Burke's Corres. iv. 258. This alludes to the pleadings of a Stoic and an Epicurean for and against the existence of the Divinity in Lucian's Jupiter the Tragic.
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