This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... lace and feather consecrate to fame, Expletive Kings, and Queens without a name. Here Havard,1 all serene, in the same strains, 1 It suited Churchill's purpose to represent Garrick's treasury as loaded with cash and Rich's as destitute of that commodity; but Rich managed by means of Pantomimes and shows, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... lace and feather consecrate to fame, Expletive Kings, and Queens without a name. Here Havard,1 all serene, in the same strains, 1 It suited Churchill's purpose to represent Garrick's treasury as loaded with cash and Rich's as destitute of that commodity; but Rich managed by means of Pantomimes and shows, and by an occasional lucky hit, such as the Beggar's Opera, to gain large sums of money. William Havard 1710-1778 was apparently somewhat unfairly treated in these lines. Fielding in 1752 wrote of him--"except Mr. Garrick, I do not know that he hath any superior in tragedy at that house;" and, although unfortunate in the possession of a monotonous voice, he appears to have been really an intelligent actor. Loves, hates, and rages, triumphs, and complains; His easy vacant face proclaim'd a heart Which could not feel emotions, nor impart. With him came mighty Davies.1 On my life, That Davies hath a very pretty wife: --Statesman all over!--In plots famous grown!--He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone. 1 For Thomas Davies about 1712-1785 see Introduction. 2 Charles Holland 1733-1769 was a pupil of Garrick, and these lines seem to describe him with sufficient fairness. The author of a violent attack on Garrick, entitled Garrick in the Shades, makes the great actor call Holland "my favourite pupil--whom I instructed in emphasis, tone, and pause--to whom I imparted my own start--my own stare--my own stamp--my own fall--in short, whom I taught to read,"--and Davies describes him as " tumid in utterance, and extravagant in action." Act from himself, on his own bottom stand; I hate e'en Garrick thus at second-hand.1 Behind came King.2--Bred up in modest lore, Bashful and young he sought Hibernia's shore; Hibernia, fam'd, ...
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Add this copy of The Rosciad and the Apology to cart. $25.00, good condition, Sold by Tiber Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cockeysville, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1891 by Lawrence and Bullen, London.
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Folio, hardcover, no dj. Good condition. Ex-library copy, spine reinforced with brown library buckram. Light stamping to the interior, contents otherwise clean, no marking or writing. Binding sturdy and tight. Not pretty on the shelf, but serviceable, and a candidate for a more attractive binding. 78 pp., frontis. portrait.
Add this copy of The Rosciad and the Apology to cart. $50.00, very good condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1891 by Lawrence and Bullen.
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Very good. Edited by Robert W. Lowe. Engraved frontispiece portrait, 7 engraved plates. Small slim folio, contemporary 1/4 maroon leather; backstrip chipped. London: Chiswick Press for Lawrence and Bullen, 1891. Very good. Best edition, with fine critical apparatus and introduction of this vicious satirical attack on the English stage and actors.
