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Page 56
I began to try my strength in several slight attempts towards the drama , and as
Shakespear was most upon my tongue and nearest to my heart , I fitted and
compiled a kind of cento , which I intitled Shakespear in the Shades , and formed
into ...
I began to try my strength in several slight attempts towards the drama , and as
Shakespear was most upon my tongue and nearest to my heart , I fitted and
compiled a kind of cento , which I intitled Shakespear in the Shades , and formed
into ...
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-planned and composed an entire drama , of which Charactacus was the hero ,
with Bards and Druids attached to it as a chorus , for whom I wrote Odes in the
manner of Elfrida ; I have this manuscript now in my possession , and it is
flattering ...
-planned and composed an entire drama , of which Charactacus was the hero ,
with Bards and Druids attached to it as a chorus , for whom I wrote Odes in the
manner of Elfrida ; I have this manuscript now in my possession , and it is
flattering ...
Page 196
About this time I wrote my first legitimate drama in five acts , and entitled it The
Banishment of Cicero . I was led to this by the perusal of Middleton's account of
his life , which afforded me much entertainment . As the hero of a drama I was not
...
About this time I wrote my first legitimate drama in five acts , and entitled it The
Banishment of Cicero . I was led to this by the perusal of Middleton's account of
his life , which afforded me much entertainment . As the hero of a drama I was not
...
Page 249
My friends , who were critics merely in music , took as little concern about révising
the drama , as I took pains in writing it : they brought me the music of old songs ,
and I adapted words to it , and wove them into the piece , as I could .
My friends , who were critics merely in music , took as little concern about révising
the drama , as I took pains in writing it : they brought me the music of old songs ,
and I adapted words to it , and wove them into the piece , as I could .
Page 301
66 Were " for the constitution of the comic drama . " After all due
acknowledgments for the favour of his remark , I replied that if I had trespassed
against any rule laid down by classical authority in the case alluded to , I had
done it inadvertently ...
66 Were " for the constitution of the comic drama . " After all due
acknowledgments for the favour of his remark , I replied that if I had trespassed
against any rule laid down by classical authority in the case alluded to , I had
done it inadvertently ...
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Page 365 - Tavern, in a considerable body, for an early dinner, where Samuel Johnson took the chair, at the head of a long table, and was the life and soul of the corps. The poet took post silently by his side, with the Burkes, Sir Joshua Reynolds...
Page 350 - Temple, he showed me the beginning of his 'Animated Nature;' it was with a sigh, such as genius draws, when hard necessity diverts it from its bent to drudge for bread, and talk of birds, and beasts, and' creeping things, which Pidcock's showman would have done as well.
Page 351 - Buffon into English, yet I much doubt, if without that spur he would ever have put his Pegasus into action : no, if he had been rich, the world would have been poorer than it is by the loss of all the treasures of his genius and the contributions of his pen.
Page 352 - If fortune had turned him into a field of clover, he would have laid down and rolled in it. The mere manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude and love of ease to have taken the pen out of the inkhorn, unless the cravings of hunger had reminded him that he must fill the sheet before he saw the table cloth. He might indeed have knocked down Osbourne for a blockhead, but' he would not have knocked him down with a folio of his own writing.
Page 366 - I had the honour to be deputed to that office. I planted him in an upper box, pretty nearly over the stage, in full view of the pit and galleries, and perfectly well situated to give the echo all its play through the hollows and recesses of the theatre.
Page 79 - ... when, after long and eager expectation, I first beheld little Garrick, then young and light and alive in every muscle and in every feature, come bounding on the stage, and pointing at the wittol Altamont and heavy -paced Horatio — heavens, what a transition!
Page 364 - have " very different motives for resorting to the " stage. I write for money, and care little " about fame — " I was touched by this melancholy confession, and from that moment busied myself assiduously amongst all my connexions in his cause. The whole company pledged themselves to the support of the ingenuous poet, and faithfully kept their promise to him.
Page 189 - It was an interlude truly comic and amusing. Beckford, loud, voluble, self-sufficient, and galled by hits, which he could not parry, and probably did not expect, laid himself more and more open in the vehemence of his argument ¡ Dodington, lolling in his chair in perfect apathy and selfcommand...
Page 368 - Reynolds's and my house, should meet at the St. James's Coffee-house, which accordingly took place, and was occasionally repeated with much festivity and good fellowship. Dr. Bernard, Dean of Deny, a very amiable and old friend of mine, Dr. Douglas, since Bishop of Salisbury, Johnson, David Garrick, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund and Richard Burke, Hickey, with two or three others, constituted our party.
Page 149 - I'm thinking, Pierre, how that damned starving quality Called Honesty got footing in the world. Pierr. Why, powerful Villainy first set it up, For its own ease and safety: honest men Are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten...
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| Title | Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1 Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Richard Cumberland |
| Author | Richard Cumberland |
| Publisher | Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 18 Jan 2008 |
| Length | 432 pages |
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