Posthumous Letters, from Various Celebrated Men: Addressed to Francis Colman, and George Colman, the Elder |
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Page 181 - Whatever objections you have made or shall make to my play, I will endeavour to remove and not argue about them. To bring in any new judges either of its merits or faults I can never submit to. Upon a former occasion, when my other play was before Mr. Garrick, he offered to bring me before Mr. Whitehead's tribunal...
Page 7 - will make you sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder of mutton every day." This counsel was rejected : the profit and principal were lost, and Gay sunk under the calamity so low that his life became in danger.
Page 7 - South-sea stock, and once supposed himself to be master of twenty thousand pounds. His friends persuaded him to sell his share ; but he dreamed of dignity and splendour, and could not bear to obstruct his own fortune. He was then importuned to sell as much as would purchase an hundred a year for life, " which," says Fenton, " will make you sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder of mutton every day.
Page 97 - I see that the country is in one general state of confusion, filled with devastation and murder. I hear every day of the Russians beating the Confederates, but as to what the Russians, what the Confederates, what the body of the nation propose, I am utterly ignorant, though no more I believe than they are themselves. Their method of carrying on war is about as gentle as ours was in America with the Shawenese and Delawares.
Page 13 - Madrid, drawn by six fat unwieldy black horses, short docked, and of colossal dignity : neither was he less characteristic in apparel than in equipage ; he had a wardrobe loaded with rich and flaring suits, each in itself a load to the wearer, and of these I have no doubt but many were coeval with his embassy above mentioned, and every birth-day had added to the stock.
Page 193 - Opera being given out to be played some time ago, at Drury Lane Theatre, they requested the managers of that theatre not to exhibit this opera, deeming it productive of mischief to society, as in their opinion it most undoubtedly increased the number of thieves ; and that the managers obligingly returned for answer, that for that night it was too late to stop it, but that for the future they would not play it if the other house did not. Under these circumstances, from a sense of duty and the principles...
Page 163 - ... misfortunes. I shall be extreamly glad to see you, and think it woud be very right if you woud come and dine hear two or three days in a week, it will change the sceen, and by the sincerity of your wellcome you may fancy your self at home. I am, dear Sir, Your obliged hum. Servant, C. CLIVE.
Page 13 - I have no doubt but many were coeval with his embassy above mentioned, and every birth-day had added to the stock. In doing this he so contrived as never to put his old dresses out of countenance, by any variations in...
Page 74 - Churchill's works. He has a great genius, and is an excellent poet ; there are to be sure some as fine lines as ever were writ, and some as low prosaic trash as ever came from Grub Street. One may plainly see that all his works are what the French call pieces rapporte".
Page 96 - As to England, I am resolved not to set my foot in it, till the virtue which I believe to exist in the body of the people can be put in motion.