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. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...outer world, against this condition of things. Lord Garden-stone, a lord of scat, I believe, and not a lord of state, as it is said in the north, indignantly remarked of the " Confederacy: "--" This is one of those plays which throw infamy on the English stage and general taste, though it is not destitute of ...
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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. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...outer world, against this condition of things. Lord Garden-stone, a lord of scat, I believe, and not a lord of state, as it is said in the north, indignantly remarked of the " Confederacy: "--" This is one of those plays which throw infamy on the English stage and general taste, though it is not destitute of wit and humor. A people must be in the last degree depraved, among whom such public entertainments are produced and encouraged. In this symptom of degenerate manners wo are, I believe, unmatehed by any nation that is, or ever was, in the world." In the 'Confederacy," Doggett's fame as an actor culminated. He dressed Moncytrap with the eare of a true artist. On an old threadbare black coat, he tacked new cuffs and collar to make its rustiness more apparent. Genest. quoting Wilks, adds, that the neck of the coat was stuffed so as to make the wearer appear round-shoodered, and give greater prominency to the head. Wearing large, square-toed shoes with lmgo buckles over his own ordinary pair, made his legs appear smaller than they really were. Doggett, we are told, could paint and mould his face to any ago. Kneller recognized in him a superior artist. Sir Godfrey remarks, that "he could only copy nature from the originals before him, but that Doggett could vary them at pleasure, and yet keep a close likeness." It must be confessed the public were more pleased with this piece than with Rowe's " Ulysses," in which Penelope gave so bright an example of conjugal duty and maternal love, in the person of Mrs. Barry, to the Ulysses of Betterton, and the Telemachus of Booth. That public would, perhaps, have cared more for the grace and nature of Addison's " Rosamond," produced at Drury Lane, in March, 1707, with its exquisite flattery cunningly...
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