Life and art of Joseph Jefferson, together with some account of his ancestry and of the Jefferson family of actors . that it was appearance of Garrick in London. That was Philip Lewis, uncle of theEnglish comedian, William T. Lewis. He was the only man of myacquaintance, says Bernard, who remembered the debut of Garrick;and it was , . when sitting at my table, with Charles Bannisterand Merry, he uttered an impromptu I have since heard attributed toothers: — I saw him rising in the east, In all his energetic glows;I saw him sinking in the west In greater splendour than he rose. Hannah More [174
Life and art of Joseph Jefferson, together with some account of his ancestry and of the Jefferson family of actors . that it was appearance of Garrick in London. That was Philip Lewis, uncle of theEnglish comedian, William T. Lewis. He was the only man of myacquaintance, says Bernard, who remembered the debut of Garrick;and it was , . when sitting at my table, with Charles Bannisterand Merry, he uttered an impromptu I have since heard attributed toothers: — I saw him rising in the east, In all his energetic glows;I saw him sinking in the west In greater splendour than he rose. Hannah More [1745-1833], certainly a shrewd observer, came up toLondon, from her home at Bristol, to see Garricks farewell performance,1776, and after her return she wrote these words: I pity those who havenot seen him. Posterity will never be able to form the slightest idea ofhis perfection. The more I see him, the more I admire. I have seenhim within these three weeks take leave of Benedick, Sir John Brute,Kitely, Abel Drugger, Archer, and Leon. It seems to me as if I wasassisting at the obsequies of the different DAVID GARRICK. LIFE OF JEFFERSON 9 well-nigh impossible, in that epoch, for any actor to wina pre-eminent success, at the British capital, in faceof the overwhelming ascendency which Garrick thenmaintained. A reprint of the Drury Lane play-bill, which, follow-ing the authority of Genest, appears to assign Jeffersonsfirst appearance at that theatre, under Garricks man-agement, to October 24, 1753, will here be is a reduced fac-simile from an original. Almostevery name in it is distinguished in theatrical Pritchard was Dr. Johnsons inspired idiot, —the great Lady Macbeth of the eighteenth century,prior to Mrs. Yates and Mrs. Siddons. Foote was theEnglish Aristophanes. Woodward — superb as Mer-cutio and fine as Touchstone — was deemed the modelof every grace. Palmer and Blakes are complimentedeven by the exigent Churchill — in The Rosciad.
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