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The Freemason.
decrees they creep on to higher subjects . If they have not good luck enough to mix with their fortunate brethren , they , then turn puppy scribblers for the papers , abuse merit , rail at managers , " And snarl , and bite , and play the dog . " Puppy actors are all those private performers who are
continuallymurdering Otway , Rowe , & c . Sometimes they run away from their parents or masters , commence heroes in the countiy , and strut about great kings and emperors of a sorry barn , till " hungry guts and empty purse" induce them to return . But so great is the infatuation of this puppyism , that , though it frequently exposes itself , it is seldom or never to be cured .
There are puppies of every sort ; it would therefore be a tedious business for me to enumerate them . A . puppy-physician is . no rarity—' mark the preposterous large bag , a pedantic selection of medical p hrases , dogmatic precision , evasive replication , and ail the et c . cetera of a similar tendency . There are even puppy artists—puppy mechanicspretending to what they do not understand—naywe have
, , had self-sufficient puppies who pretended indeed that they understood the whole arcana of Freemasonry , and have not only deceived themselves , but duped the public- most egregiously . Their puppyism , however , soon became conspicuous , and it was not long before the world was convinced that they were in utter darkness .
The Stage.
THE STAGE .
BY JOHN TAYLOR , ESQ . Continued from Vol . IV . Page 3 82 .
NOW CRAWFORD comes , once partner of a name With rapture sounded by enamotir'd fame—Melodious BARRY , whose seducing strain Goitlcitouch the sternest breast with fend ' rest pain ; Still faithful mem ' ry hears th' entrancing flow That sweetly warbled Romeo ' s melting woe ;
Beholds e ' en now his agonizing Lear , And fondly drops the tribute of a tear . Tbe idol of the fair—the stage ' s pride—With his mellifluous notes the lover d y'd . But let the muse restrain her wand ' ring fli ght . And CRAWFORD ' S worth impartially recite .
In sudden bursts of animated grief , Where the sharp anguish seems to scorn relief , At once she rushes on the trembling heart , And ri' . 'aJs Nature with resistless art , VOL . V , E
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The Freemason.
decrees they creep on to higher subjects . If they have not good luck enough to mix with their fortunate brethren , they , then turn puppy scribblers for the papers , abuse merit , rail at managers , " And snarl , and bite , and play the dog . " Puppy actors are all those private performers who are
continuallymurdering Otway , Rowe , & c . Sometimes they run away from their parents or masters , commence heroes in the countiy , and strut about great kings and emperors of a sorry barn , till " hungry guts and empty purse" induce them to return . But so great is the infatuation of this puppyism , that , though it frequently exposes itself , it is seldom or never to be cured .
There are puppies of every sort ; it would therefore be a tedious business for me to enumerate them . A . puppy-physician is . no rarity—' mark the preposterous large bag , a pedantic selection of medical p hrases , dogmatic precision , evasive replication , and ail the et c . cetera of a similar tendency . There are even puppy artists—puppy mechanicspretending to what they do not understand—naywe have
, , had self-sufficient puppies who pretended indeed that they understood the whole arcana of Freemasonry , and have not only deceived themselves , but duped the public- most egregiously . Their puppyism , however , soon became conspicuous , and it was not long before the world was convinced that they were in utter darkness .
The Stage.
THE STAGE .
BY JOHN TAYLOR , ESQ . Continued from Vol . IV . Page 3 82 .
NOW CRAWFORD comes , once partner of a name With rapture sounded by enamotir'd fame—Melodious BARRY , whose seducing strain Goitlcitouch the sternest breast with fend ' rest pain ; Still faithful mem ' ry hears th' entrancing flow That sweetly warbled Romeo ' s melting woe ;
Beholds e ' en now his agonizing Lear , And fondly drops the tribute of a tear . Tbe idol of the fair—the stage ' s pride—With his mellifluous notes the lover d y'd . But let the muse restrain her wand ' ring fli ght . And CRAWFORD ' S worth impartially recite .
In sudden bursts of animated grief , Where the sharp anguish seems to scorn relief , At once she rushes on the trembling heart , And ri' . 'aJs Nature with resistless art , VOL . V , E