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The Collector.
damn'd , eternal , senseless idiot , with no more brains thaa your curst bass viol ; just at the very moment I had played with the audience , tickled them hke a trout , and brought them to the most accommodating silence , so pat to my purpose , —so perfeft , that it v / as , as one may say , a companion for Milton ' s visible darkness ; just at that cri tical moment , did not you , with your damn'd jaws stretch'd wide h to swallow
enoug a peck loaf—yaw-yawn , and be curst to you ? Oh I I wish , from my soul , you had never shut your brown jaws again . * < bare Mistera Garrick , Sare—only , if you please , hear me von lord ; it is alvay the vay—it xs indeed , Mistera Garrick , alvay the vay I go when I have the greater rapture , Mistera Garrick . ' ' Cervetto ' s flattery subdued Garrick s anger , and the supposed offence vanished with the instant .
ANOTHER OF GARRICK . WHEN Garrick first came upon the stage , and , one : very sultry evening in the month of May , performed the character of Lear he m the four first afts received the customary tokens of applause / and ' at the conclusion of the fifth , when he wept over the body of Cofde ' ha ln the soft infeftion
, every eye caug , the bi g round tear ran down every cheek : at this interesting moment , to the ' astonishment of all present , his face assumed a new character , and his whole frame appeared agitated by a new passion—it was not tragic , for he was evidentl y endeavouring to suppress a laugh : in a few seconds the attendant nobles appeared to be affedted in the and
same manner ; the beauteous Cordelia , who was reclined upon a crimson couch , opeiiincher eyes to see what occasioned the interruption , leaped from the sofa ; and , with the majesty of England , the gallant Albany , and tough old Kent , ran laughing off the stage . The audience could not account for so strange a termination of a tragedy , in any other way than by supposing the dramatis ? seized with
personawere a sudden phrenzy ; but their risibility had a different source . A fat White chapel butcher , seated on the centre of the first bench of the pit was accompanied b y his mastiff , who , being accustomed to sit o ' n the same seat with his master at home , naturally thought he might eniov the same privilege here : the butcher sat very back , and the qua , druped , finding a fair opening , got upon the bench , and fivin ^ l . ; .
lore paws on the rail of the orchestra , peeped at the performers with as upright ahead , and as grave an air , as the most sagacious critic of his day . Our corpulent slaughterman was made of melting-stuff and jiot being accustomed to a play-house heat , found himself much ovpressed by the weight of a large and well-powdered Sunday peruke which , for the gratification of cooling and wiping his head , he pulled oftand laced on the head of his maltiff
, p . The dog's beinj in so conspicuous , so obtrusive a situation , caught the eye of Garrick and of the other performers . A mastiff in a chuich-warden ' s wie ( for the butcher was a parish officer ) was too much , it would have provoked daughter-in Lear himself , at the moment" he was most distressed- no wonder then that it had such an effect on his representative '
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The Collector.
damn'd , eternal , senseless idiot , with no more brains thaa your curst bass viol ; just at the very moment I had played with the audience , tickled them hke a trout , and brought them to the most accommodating silence , so pat to my purpose , —so perfeft , that it v / as , as one may say , a companion for Milton ' s visible darkness ; just at that cri tical moment , did not you , with your damn'd jaws stretch'd wide h to swallow
enoug a peck loaf—yaw-yawn , and be curst to you ? Oh I I wish , from my soul , you had never shut your brown jaws again . * < bare Mistera Garrick , Sare—only , if you please , hear me von lord ; it is alvay the vay—it xs indeed , Mistera Garrick , alvay the vay I go when I have the greater rapture , Mistera Garrick . ' ' Cervetto ' s flattery subdued Garrick s anger , and the supposed offence vanished with the instant .
ANOTHER OF GARRICK . WHEN Garrick first came upon the stage , and , one : very sultry evening in the month of May , performed the character of Lear he m the four first afts received the customary tokens of applause / and ' at the conclusion of the fifth , when he wept over the body of Cofde ' ha ln the soft infeftion
, every eye caug , the bi g round tear ran down every cheek : at this interesting moment , to the ' astonishment of all present , his face assumed a new character , and his whole frame appeared agitated by a new passion—it was not tragic , for he was evidentl y endeavouring to suppress a laugh : in a few seconds the attendant nobles appeared to be affedted in the and
same manner ; the beauteous Cordelia , who was reclined upon a crimson couch , opeiiincher eyes to see what occasioned the interruption , leaped from the sofa ; and , with the majesty of England , the gallant Albany , and tough old Kent , ran laughing off the stage . The audience could not account for so strange a termination of a tragedy , in any other way than by supposing the dramatis ? seized with
personawere a sudden phrenzy ; but their risibility had a different source . A fat White chapel butcher , seated on the centre of the first bench of the pit was accompanied b y his mastiff , who , being accustomed to sit o ' n the same seat with his master at home , naturally thought he might eniov the same privilege here : the butcher sat very back , and the qua , druped , finding a fair opening , got upon the bench , and fivin ^ l . ; .
lore paws on the rail of the orchestra , peeped at the performers with as upright ahead , and as grave an air , as the most sagacious critic of his day . Our corpulent slaughterman was made of melting-stuff and jiot being accustomed to a play-house heat , found himself much ovpressed by the weight of a large and well-powdered Sunday peruke which , for the gratification of cooling and wiping his head , he pulled oftand laced on the head of his maltiff
, p . The dog's beinj in so conspicuous , so obtrusive a situation , caught the eye of Garrick and of the other performers . A mastiff in a chuich-warden ' s wie ( for the butcher was a parish officer ) was too much , it would have provoked daughter-in Lear himself , at the moment" he was most distressed- no wonder then that it had such an effect on his representative '