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Until people saw Garrick's Beverley, they didn't think there was anything in the Gamester; nor was there, except what Garrick put there. This is called creating a part, and he is the greatest actor who creates most parts. But genius in the author of the play is a terrible obstacle in the way of an actor who aspires to identify himself once and for all with the leading part in it. Mr.
The message must have been short, for I could not gather from Garrick's reply what it was about, although I could tell by the startled look on his face that something unexpected had happened. "Hurry and finish dressing, Tom," he called, as he hung up the receiver. "What's the matter?" I asked, from my room, still struggling with my tie.
'He'll be of us? growled he. 'How does he know we will permit him? The first duke in England has no right to hold such language." When Sir John Hawkins spoke favorably of Garrick's pretensions, "Sir," replied Johnson, "he will disturb us by his buffoonery." In the same spirit he declared to Mr. Thrale that if Garrick should apply for admission he would blackball him.
Piozzi, in her Journey through France, ii. 297, says: 'A large dish of hot chocolate thickened with bread and cream is a common afternoon's regale here. Miss Burney often uses the word. Boswell, in answering Garrick's letter seven months later, improved on this comparison.
Garrick's action have been much praised to me by many of his countrymen, whose shades I converse with, and who agree in speaking of him as we do of Baron, our most natural and most admired actor.
"Tom," he exclaimed huskily to me, "Violet Winslow left for New York on the early train this morning!" I felt my heart skip a beat, then pound away like a sledge-hammer at my ribs as the terrible possibilities of the situation were seared into my brain. "Yes, Warrington a letter to her? Read it quick," I heard Garrick's tense voice repeating. "I see.
The part of Beau Farintosh is a weak revival of Garrick's Lord Chalkstone and Colman and Garrick's Lord Ogleby; and the strong situation in the fourth act is imitated from Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Doré of George Sand. But Robertson is decidedly strongest when he walks without crutches. His own original plays, Society, Caste, Ours, are by far his best. A foreign support made him limp.
For it is the omnipresence of intellect that always and everywhere characterises the works of the genius; and analogous to this is Lichtenberg's observation, namely, that Garrick's soul was omnipresent in all the muscles of his body.
"A king! ay, every inch a king, Such Barry doth appear; But Garrick's quite another thing, He's every inch King Lear!" Among other things which Rogers told us that morning, I remember he had much to say of Byron's forgetfulness as to all manner of things.
Garrick reports him to have said of an actor at Lichfield, "There is a courtly vivacity about the fellow;" when, in fact, said Garrick, "he was the most vulgar ruffian that ever went upon boards." In spite of such collisions of opinion and mutual criticism, Johnson seems to have spoken in the highest terms of Garrick's good qualities, and they had many pleasant meetings.
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