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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. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...arose, nor did any old one increase his reputation. Home's Siege of Aquileia failed. Brookes's Earl of Essex was playfully crushed by Johnson. Who rules o'er freemen should himself he free, was a line cited for its beauty, by Sheridan, the actor. Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat, was the stupid comment of the lexicographer. Farce flourished within this period, --supplied by the Rev. Mr. Townley, Garrick, Foote, Colman, Macklin, Reed, and Murphy, the last of whom increased his fame by the monotonously bustling comedies, All in the Wrong, and the Way to Keep Him. The authors of this period sought to correct faults and not to laugh at them. This, perhaps, gives a didactic turn to the plays of Murphy and Mrs. Sheridan. But new brilliancy was found in Colman's Jealous Wife, in which Garrick and Mrs. Pritchard were the Mr. and Mrs. Oakley, and the Clandestine Marriage, in which the noblest of old beaux has been the heritage only of the most finished of our comedians, from King, with whom it originated, down to Farren, with whom it seems to have died. Then Whitehead, in his-' School for Lovers, wrote a dull play on society to show that society was dull; and Opera made way, especially at Covent Garden, where Beard, and Arne's famous pupil, Miss Brent, sung in Bickerstaffe's operas, and the lady warbled with a joyousness that never dreamed of the coming DEATH OF RIOH. 281 penury and hunger. Managers, too, catered drolly for the public, and when Mossop acted Richard III., Signer Grimaldi danced comic dances between the acts! During Barry's absence, David acted several original characters, among them, Sir Anthony Branville ( Discovery ), in which he seemed utterly to have extinguished his natural talents, assuming a dry, ...

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