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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: but put 5 Guineas into Wilkinson's hand at parting ?Rich was ill qualified for his situation, but he seems to have done many friendly good-tempered things. ACTOR And ROSCIAD. Actor. The Gentleman's Magazine for April 1760 contains an extract from the Actor just published?a 4th Edition was printed in 1764?this poem was written by Lloyd, and is inferiour only to the Rosciad; it is particularly worth the attention of performers. Lloyd insists much on the necessity of an Actor feeling his part, and illustrates his position by the following lines? Once on the stage in Rome's declining days When Christians were the subject of their plays, Ere persecution dropp'd her iron rod, And men still wag'd an impious war with God, An Actor flourish'd of no vulgar fame, Nature's disciple, and GENEST his name. A noble object for his skill he chose, A martyr dying 'midst insulting foes. Resign'd with patience to religion's laws Yet braving monarchs in his Saviour's cause. FilPd with th' idea of the secret part He felt a zeal beyond the reach of art, While look and voice and gesture, all exprest A kindred ardour in the Play Vs breast j Till as the flame thro' all his bosom ran, He lost the Actor, and commenc'd the Man: Profest the faith, his pagan gods denied, And what he acted then, he after died. Tell me from whence Lloyd got this story? Et eris mihi maynus Apollo. Lloyd objects to the Ghost of Banquo making his appearance, and says? The King alone should form the phantom there, And talk and tremble at the vacant chair. Lloyd was the son of Dr. Lloyd under-master of Westminster, and at one time Usher in the school himself?when by his want of (economy he had brought himself into pr...

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