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Sir Benjamin had taken Jack to dine with him at two of his clubs and after dining they had gone to see the great actor Robert Bensley as Malvolio and the Comedian Dodd as Sir Andrew Aguecheek. The Britisher had been most polite, but had seemed studiously to avoid mention of the subject nearest the heart of the young man.
He smiled on me in quite a superior sort of way, such a smile as would have become the face of Malvolio, as he answered me, "The fly, my dear sir, has one striking feature. It's wings are typical of the aerial powers of the psychic faculties. The ancients did well when they typified the soul as a butterfly!"
His rebuke to the knight, and his sottish revellers, is sensible and spirited; and when we take into consideration the unprotected condition of his mistress, and the strict regard with which her state of real or dissembled mourning would draw the eyes of the world upon her house-affairs, Malvolio might feel the honour of the family in some sort in his keeping; as it appears not that Olivia had any more brothers, or kinsmen, to look to it for Sir Toby had dropped all such nice respects at the buttery hatch.
"Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings the husband's the bigger." The pilchard closely resembles the herring, but is thicker and heavier, with larger scales. In the same play, MARIA, seeing MALVOLIO coming, says: "Here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling."
She ended her London career in 1816 and died in 1829. Of all the actors. The London Magazine article began at this point. G.H. Boaden and George Colman both bear out Lamb's eulogy of Bensley as Malvolio; but otherwise he is not the subject of much praise. Venetian incendiary. Pierre in Otway's "Venice Preserved." Lamb appended the passage in a footnote in the London Magazine.
It is, no doubt, a little revenge for the 'dark chamber' in which Malvolio is imprisoned, that, after Horace has concluded his speech in which the study of Latin and Greek is recommended to Crispinus as something very necessary for him, Virgil should add the further advice: And for a week or two see him locked up In some dark place, removed from company; He will talk idly else after his physic.
When Viola was admitted to her presence and the servants had been sent away, she listened patiently to the reproaches which this bold messenger from the Duke poured upon her, and listening she fell in love with the supposed Cesario; and when Cesario had gone, Olivia longed to send some love-token after him. So, calling Malvolio, she bade him follow the boy.
O! shake not the castles of his pride endure yet for a season, bright moments of confidence "stand still ye watches of the element," that Malvolio may be still in fancy fair Olivia's lord but fate and retribution say no I hear the mischievous titter of Maria the witty taunts of Sir Toby the still more insupportable triumph of the foolish knight the counterfeit Sir Topas is unmasked and "thus the whirligig of time," as the true clown hath it, "brings in his revenges."
His style and title having soon transpired, and being within that class whom a great man might notice without derogation, four of the Duke's friends, with the obedient start which poor Malvolio ascribes to his imaginary retinue, made out to lead the victor to his presence.
Madman, thou errest: I say there is no darkness but Ignorance, in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.... What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wild fowl? Malvolio. That the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird. Clown. What thinkest thou of his opinion? Malvolio. I think nobly of the soul, and in no way approve his opinion. Twelfth Night, iv. 2.
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