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Memoirs Of The Late Dr. Paul Hiffernan.
the title of " Miscellanies in Prose and Verse ,-by Paul HifFernan , M D " These Miscellanies are dedicated to the late Lord Tyrawley , and consist of Effays on Taste , Ethics , Character of Polonius , ~ Theory of Acting , Immoderate Drinking , The Virtues of Cock-fig hting , ^ ohort View of the Life and Writings of ConfuciusThe Last Dayi ^
ogico-, , Mastix , with a number of Poems on occasional Subjects . In this melange of odd subjects , there are some foreign anecdotes and remarks , which distinguish the scholar and man of observation . In his " Character of Polonius" he particularly rescues that statesman from the imputation of a fool and a driveller , and supports his claim to wisdom and sagacityboth from his advice to his son and daughter , as well as
, from the following character which the King gives of him to Laertes ; " The blood is not more native to the heart , The hand more instrumental to the mouth , Than to tlie Throne of Denmark is thy father . " The opposite character of Polonius , however , has been adopted by
all the performers we have ever seen play this part , except one ; we mean Munden ' s late performance of it at Covent Garden Theatre , where indeed the whole of the representation of Hamlet is got up very crer ditably to the taste of the Manager . Munden shews Polonius free from all those blemishes of buffoonery with which ' our _ best actors , who have gone before him , have loaded him ; he is in his hands , though somewhat of a formalistand attached to the modes of a Court ,
, a wise , a prudent , and uprig ht statesman ; and this the audience felt on the first nig ht to be so much the real draught of the character , that , notwithstanding all their former prejudices , they gave it their universal applause . His " Theory on the Art of Acting" is . only to be remembered for its eccentricityIn describing the mechanical manner of the players
. o-enerally dying in the last act , he draws a caricature scene of a _ man being run through the body with a spit by his landlady , on his incanacny of paying his reckoning ; and that our readers may have an opinion of the vulgar extravagancy which our Author has run into on this occasion , we shall present them with the concluding lines :
« Up h !" - * ' Here a general contraction of the body , which has nothing violent can hist long , is to be succeeded by a gradual evolution of the members , and the two following lines are to be uttered in the farewel , endearing , melancholy tone : . ¦ " Farewel ye cauliflowers on the proud tops Of tankards 1 shall ( faufe )
brimming , never more see—a Hard—Hai d fate I " is to be spoken in a canine and snappish mode , like Darkness , Darkness , " in Richard the Third . " 0 sure it was not so much . . To mean to build a fconce . "—~ h 1 3 '
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Memoirs Of The Late Dr. Paul Hiffernan.
the title of " Miscellanies in Prose and Verse ,-by Paul HifFernan , M D " These Miscellanies are dedicated to the late Lord Tyrawley , and consist of Effays on Taste , Ethics , Character of Polonius , ~ Theory of Acting , Immoderate Drinking , The Virtues of Cock-fig hting , ^ ohort View of the Life and Writings of ConfuciusThe Last Dayi ^
ogico-, , Mastix , with a number of Poems on occasional Subjects . In this melange of odd subjects , there are some foreign anecdotes and remarks , which distinguish the scholar and man of observation . In his " Character of Polonius" he particularly rescues that statesman from the imputation of a fool and a driveller , and supports his claim to wisdom and sagacityboth from his advice to his son and daughter , as well as
, from the following character which the King gives of him to Laertes ; " The blood is not more native to the heart , The hand more instrumental to the mouth , Than to tlie Throne of Denmark is thy father . " The opposite character of Polonius , however , has been adopted by
all the performers we have ever seen play this part , except one ; we mean Munden ' s late performance of it at Covent Garden Theatre , where indeed the whole of the representation of Hamlet is got up very crer ditably to the taste of the Manager . Munden shews Polonius free from all those blemishes of buffoonery with which ' our _ best actors , who have gone before him , have loaded him ; he is in his hands , though somewhat of a formalistand attached to the modes of a Court ,
, a wise , a prudent , and uprig ht statesman ; and this the audience felt on the first nig ht to be so much the real draught of the character , that , notwithstanding all their former prejudices , they gave it their universal applause . His " Theory on the Art of Acting" is . only to be remembered for its eccentricityIn describing the mechanical manner of the players
. o-enerally dying in the last act , he draws a caricature scene of a _ man being run through the body with a spit by his landlady , on his incanacny of paying his reckoning ; and that our readers may have an opinion of the vulgar extravagancy which our Author has run into on this occasion , we shall present them with the concluding lines :
« Up h !" - * ' Here a general contraction of the body , which has nothing violent can hist long , is to be succeeded by a gradual evolution of the members , and the two following lines are to be uttered in the farewel , endearing , melancholy tone : . ¦ " Farewel ye cauliflowers on the proud tops Of tankards 1 shall ( faufe )
brimming , never more see—a Hard—Hai d fate I " is to be spoken in a canine and snappish mode , like Darkness , Darkness , " in Richard the Third . " 0 sure it was not so much . . To mean to build a fconce . "—~ h 1 3 '