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Goldsmith, like Farquhar and Steele, vaguely realized the superiority of humour to wit; but he died too early to exercise much influence on his successors. In Sheridan the convention of wit reasserted itself triumphantly, and the scene in which Lady Teazle, Mrs.
What fools some of us must be to think there is never a time when the paint and powder, the tinsel and eternal artifice of the stage yea, even our own condescending admiration pall on the jaded spirits of the poor player. "How sparklingly is Miss Smith acting Lady Teazle to-night!" we say, elegantly pressing our hands together in token of august favour.
One evening, in the famous scene in Joseph Surface's library in "The School for Scandal," when Lady Teazle is imprisoned behind the screen, Miss Farren, fatigued with standing, and chilled with the dreadful draughts of the stage, had sent for an armchair and her furs, and when this critical moment arrived, and the screen was overturned, she was revealed, in her sable muff and tippet, entirely absorbed in an eager conversation with Lord Derby, who was leaning over the back of her chair.
Dead dark leaves, some washed to their woody frames, short grey stalks, some few decayed hulls of hedge fruit, and among these the mars or stocks of the plants that do not die away, but lie as it were on the surface waiting. Here the strong teazle will presently stand high; here the ground-ivy will dot the mound with bluish-purple.
If he had made love to Lady Teazle as this one does, she would have suspected him of weak intellect. Sheridan's Joseph was a man of culture: Mr. Henley's is a buffoon. It is not, perhaps, so much this gentleman's fault as his misfortune that his acting is without either art or craft; but then he was not compelled to play Joseph Surface.
'She is a true philanthropist. Why, she rescued me from the snares and temptations of the stage, said Miss Crofton. 'Oh, now I understand, said Merton; 'I knew that your face and voice were familiar to me. Did you not act in a revival of The Country Wife? 'Hush, said Miss Crofton. 'And Lady Teazle at an amateur performance in the Canterbury week?
"Lady Teazle Behind the Screen" was dated 1871, and "Mistress of Herself tho' China Fall" was painted and exhibited in the last year of her life. <b>CHASE, ADELAIDE COLE.</b> Member of Art Students' Association. Born in Boston. Daughter of J. Foxcroft Cole.
You have no idea what a quantity of "things to be done" has been crowded into the last fortnight: studying Camiola, rehearsing for two hours and a half every other day, riding for two hours at a time, and sitting for my picture nearly as long, running from place to place about my dresses, and now having Lady Teazle and Mrs.
'But oleanders, though they are such bulky shrubs, are so very easily wounded as to be unprunable giants with the sensitiveness of young ladies. Oh, here is Elfride! Elfride looked as guilty and crestfallen as Lady Teazle at the dropping of the screen. Mrs. Swancourt presented him half comically, and Knight in a minute or two placed himself beside the young lady.
And while Merton murmured 'Highly unprofessional, the skirts of the two ladies vanished behind the screen. Miss Crofton had not played Lady Teazle for nothing. 'Ask the gentlemen to come in, said Merton, when the boy returned. They entered: three fair young curates, nervous and inclined to giggle.
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