t of an old Play Bill, empts me to call to mind a fe. It presents t of parts in t, at tre ty years ago. touco read a Play Bill -- not, as noure, singling out a favorite performer, and casting a negligent eye over t; but spelling out every name, doo tes and servants of t ter of no small moment to us ook t of Fabian; ent to attribute noo times best actors.-quot; Orsino, by Mr. Barrymore. quot; a full S carries! o memory arise tle actor!
t ten or fifteen years, can e notion of s as Op Ends ell; and Viola in tterly acquired a coarseness, sank, eady melting eye, into t. s -- in ory of speec so into an o make up t I so spoken, or rat its grace and beauty -- but, o be a quot;blank,quot; and t s;never told ; tory ;; came up as a neion -- and tened image of Patience still folloer t, as by some gro mec springing up after t, I say, as tered by ears. So in those fine lines -
rite loyal cantos of contemned love --
o te hills -
tion made in t ures o legitimate t seemed altoget rule or law.
Mrs. Poy, made an admirable Olivia. Sicularly excellent in ion resses too -- ions o set ts at ter, and to vie conceits emulation. But s, like rifle a leisure sentence or to be dismissed, and so be t Lady still. Soucastic er y. he scene.
t of Malvolio been so often misunderstood, and ts of tor, ed, t I stle prolix upon ts.
Of all tors est in tions, tions consequent upon tment of a great idea to true poetical ent faculty among players. None t I remember possessed even a portion of t fine madness about glory, or transports of tian incendiary at ty. times ting effect of trumpet. iff, no ation; and tleman in every movement. of passion est trutriking before time; never anticipating or leading you to anticipate. otally destitute of trick and artifice. age to do ts message simply, and y as t timent do its o prop or bolstering. o mountebank it; and betrayed none of t cleverness o ator from ion could divine more of ifice to do. you in possession of tery. timations to make t so mucer t of tands like a great up for mine Ancient, and a quantity of barren spectators, to s ts at. t go to riump tone about ter, natural to a general consciousness of po none of t petty vanity ain itself upon any little successful stroke of its knavery -- as is common ioners in misc did not clap or cros time. It a man setting s at a c otily pleased at being let into t; but a consummate villain entrapping a noble nature into toils, against ive. t of Malvolio, in t, y, of castings of t cer) tradition must be from tage. No manager in t to Mr. Baddeley, or Mr. Parsons: re, Jo it no derogation to succeed to t. Malvolio is not essentially ludicrous. by accident. ere, repelling; but dignified, consistent, and, for retcy. Maria describes of Puritan; and , or a lady Fairfax. But y and o ties of test. Still y, (call it ive to t mock or affected, objects to excite laugy is at t unlovely, but neitemptible. y, a little above ation, but probably not mucs. e see no reason al of to to restore to Cesario), bespeaks a generosity of birt on all occasions is t of a gentleman, and a man of education. e must not confound ernal old, loeo a great Princess; a dignity probably conferred upon s t t indication of s; ; Does ter to appear little or insignificant? Once, indeed, so ? -- of being quot;sick of self-love,quot; -- but leness and considerateness t ticular infirmity sues. o t, and tised; and o consideration tected condition of ress, and trict regard ate of real or dissembled mourning feel t in appears not t Olivia o look to it -- for Sir toby s at ttery c Malvolio to be represented as possessing estimable qualities, ty to infers. quot;Pursue reat o a peace.quot; Even in ate of c of greatness seems never to desert opas, and ply upon ra t rao Olivia. taking, or t house of misrule.
Bensley, accordingly, t an air of Spanisiness. ilian. arced, but ructure of pride seemed bottomed upon a sense of beyond t you could not be sure t it taken do you felt t it ion. from tset; but ies of ter began to give of tesss affection, gradually to tood before you. smiling to ineffable carelessness was! you
*Clohagoras concerning wild fowl?
Mal. t t a bird.
Clo thou of his opinion?
Mal. I the soul, and no way approve of his opinion.
ed ser! if an unseasonable reflection of morality obtruded itself it iable infirmity of mans nature, t can lay o suc in trutied t lasted -- you felt t an ake for a day in t of sucy but for a quarter of a minute, sleeping or o o tread upon air, to taste manna, to o mate tles of for a season brigs of confidence -- quot;stand still ye c,quot; t Malvolio may be still in fancy fair Olivias lord -- but fate and retribution say no -- I itter of Maria -- tty taunts of Sir toby -- till more insupportable triump -- terfeit Sir topas is unmasked -- and quot;time,quot; as true clo;brings in ; I confess t I never saastroper, a kind of tragic interest. too. Fe in to tors, revived ter some fe sufficiently grotesque; but Dodd , as it came out of natures migo remain in puris naturalibus. In expressing slo daealing slotle and little, ill it cleared up at last to ts meridian. o keep back ellect, as some o retard tion. takes less time in filling t took to cover ts quarters anding of ctle intelligence, and be a long time in communicating it to the remainder
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I am ill at dates, but I t is noter ty years ago t encroac side of tting out delicate green crankles, and sately alcoves of terrace -- tands gaping and relationless as if it remembered its brotill t gardens of any of t, my beloved temple not forgotten cer, t being altoget t upon taking my afternoon solace on a summer day upon terrace, a comely sad personage came to, I judged to ful foreo be in meditations of mortality. As I inctive a of subindicative token of respect o demonstrate toranger, and ion to greet ive motion of to t effect -- a species of y and of ten, rat is offered to -- rangely identified itself of Dodd. Upon close inspection I mistaken. But could tful countenance be t face of folly ances of gaiety; as t looked out so formally flat in Foppington, so frot in tattle, so impotently busy in Backbite; so blankly divested of all meaning, or resolutely expressive of none, in Acres, in Fribble, and a tinences? as till of t and carefulness -- t en divested itself at race of eito give me diversion, to clear my cloudy face for t least of its furroelligent, , made merry aken came upon me . I could pardon. I t it looked upon me range as ors -- your pleasant felloicularly -- subjected to and suffering t -- tunes, ties, to belong to tions to be amenable to poetic justice only. e can ties. tor took place sly after ting. ted tage some montering daily to t to ting ies -- er tre -- doing gentle penance for a life of no very repreaking off by degrees t feel oo long -- and re of part. Dying ;put on t; *
If fe living easily forget creature, of to Dodds Sir Andre -- for so in ime ed to be called, and time ified tion -- lietery of o ed. t remember t period -- en speak of er days, w;c;
clipped expedient t ate; ion to t office), like Sir Jo;; or y indispensable to an occupation ;commerce ; -- I could never rig ion of a ting to a secular condition, and become one of us. I t altoget timber, out of of sanctity, t tley, ed y after ion, and ion to o ted for a surplice -- e stole, and albe. t fruits of ion upon t ing ters. At t of us kneor true sense able.
age. o trouble all ty, troubled for tter. e -- imes deepening to ible accession, derived perely from ical education, foreign to otype of, -- O La! thousands of
*Dodd at ion of old Engliserature. I so . I knoance of an impromptu ered. My merry friend, Jem e, day in Fleet Street, ibly impelled to take off and salute ical Knig;Save you, Sir Andre; Dodd, not at all disconcerted at tranger, eous ;A;
s yet respond to tt, brougo transcript of ;force of nature could no furt; ock of two syllables riche cuckoo.
Care, t troubles all tten in ion. trings, of ence) as legs. A doubt or a scruple must otter, a sig of a froilts of ;t; reckless of a scratcorn doublet.
Sers. true Suett stamp, a loose and s, a slippery tongue, t to a -pain-delivered jest; in rutre; ragging conceit empest, or Sir toby at ttery-ch.
Jack Bannister and une to be more of personal favourites oors before or after. take it, , good-natured, moral pretensions. Dicky ured, no pretensions at all. Your ers performance of alter in t Dick seemed like a too young to knoo Vestas days. Evil fled before as from Jack, as from an antagonist, -- but because it could not touc deat in metapo fetc is recorded of Palmer, stroke, neitomed tranquillity, nor tune, ion, o aph -- O La! O La! Bobby!
tage-treading celebrity) commonly played Sir toby in t ty of in ts of t aff e fill out. oo simes took t) tisility about Jack Palmer. leman infusion of tman. er memory) erleman tle stronger infusion of tter ingredient; t is amazing tle off t,* you said, y sucty fello. ain Absolute, you t you could trace ion to some lad of quality , and was insuperable.
[Footnote] * airs.
Jack ical, and insinuating; but al voice still more decisively rionic t ator; and tis personae o kno all about it. timents in Josep in a sort of italics to t correspondence ain (ificial comedy of Congreve or of Se sense of reality (so indispensable to scenes of interest) is not required, or erfere to diminis is, you do not believe in sucers as Surface -- tificial comedy -- even you. urns from sea, te dialogue occurs at meeting her -
Sir Sampson. t been many a hee.
Ben. Ey, ey, been! Been far enoug be all. -- ell, fat her Val?
Sir Sampson. Dick! body o me, Dick you word w Leghorn.
Ben. Mess, ts true; Marry, I . Dicks dead, as you say -- ell, and ions to ask you -
ance of insensibility ed ed temperament of ter. But ions and specious combinations ratrict metapure saken, or , it neit all. For sailor a piece of satire -- a creation of Congreves fancy -- a dreamy combination of all ts of a sailors cer -- empt of money -- y to necessary estrangement from is just y to suppose migion as is , or feel it as a stain upon er. But ead of tful pom -- ture dear to er exed -- displays before our eyes a doar -- and notead of investing it ed goodness of purpose -- o it a doanding, and a full consciousness of its actions; ting fories of ter ence as if it stood upon noto be judged by turbed; a real man in among tis personae, and puts t. e turned out. e feel t rue place is not beain but in t or second gallery.