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Most of the personages mentioned are described in the notes of John Wilson Croker's Letters to and from the Countess of Suffolk . The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, ed. by F. Elrington Ball , Vol. Haywood have writ the progress of it." Haywood characterized in the terms quoted above. Elwin and Courthope's Pope, III, 279. Mr.
But the Hillsborough was to sail next day; and Mr. Mervyn's letter, containing certain queries, and an order for twenty guineas on a London house, glided in that packet with a favouring breeze from the Bay of Dublin, on its way to the London firm of Elrington Brothers. On the morning of the day whose events I have been describing in the last half-dozen chapters, Mr.
Mills, Mr. Booth, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Bullock, Sen., Mr. Norris, Mr. Pack, Mr. Bullock, Jun., Mrs. Elrington, Mrs. Powel, Mrs. Bradshaw, Mrs. Cox. And the Witches by Mr. Burkhead, Mr. Ryan, Mrs. Mills, and Mrs. Willis. No. 142. Monday, August 13, 1711. Steele. ... Irrupta tenet Copula ... Hor.
Elrington, for the blunders in his Latin theme, and what terror to the mind of a "Jib" can equal that one? As luck would have it, this was a company night in the boarding-house.
I can prove it; the eminent London house of Elrington Brothers can prove it; the handwriting of the late Sir Philip Drayton, Baronet, of Drayton Hall, and of two other respectable witnesses to a formal document, can prove it; dead and rotten dust, Sir.
Elrington, for the blunders in his Latin theme, and what terror to the mind of a "Jib" can equal that one? As luck would have it, this was a company night in the boarding-house.
He told the managers that he could not think of permanently leaving Ireland, where he was so well rewarded for his services, and added, "There is not a gentleman's house there to which I am not a welcome visitor," which shows that an actor can be a snob, like the worst of us. When Elrington died, two years after the taking off of Oldfield, his epitaph was written in these flattering lines:
Thomas Elrington is the new-comer; the same Elrington who sought to outshine the tragic Barton Booth, without possessing either the genius or the scholarship of that noble son of Melpomene.
"Thou best of actors here interr'd, No more thy charming voice is heard, This grave thy corse contains: Thy better part, which us'd to move Our admiration, and our Love, Has fled its sad remains. "Tho' there's no monumental brass, Thy sacred relicks to encase, Thou wondrous man of art! A lover of the muse divine, O! Elrington, shall be thy shrine, And carve thee in his heart."
The Ghost in its first appearance is dumb to Horatio. A promise made, like many others, never to be kept." Elrington ultimately became a favourite player with Dublin audiences, and then contested with Booth in the latter's own ground of London.
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