General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . to losehis sight in his sixty-ninth year ; he died at Fer-rara in 1559. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Filki/igtonsDiet.—A. GARRICK, David, the most eminent actorthat the English stage has produced, was bornat Hereford in 1716. His grandfather was arefugee from France, on account of religion,at the revocation of the edict of Nantes. Hisfather was a captain in the army, and usuallyresided at Lichfield, where he had married thedaugh
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . to losehis sight in his sixty-ninth year ; he died at Fer-rara in 1559. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Filki/igtonsDiet.—A. GARRICK, David, the most eminent actorthat the English stage has produced, was bornat Hereford in 1716. His grandfather was arefugee from France, on account of religion,at the revocation of the edict of Nantes. Hisfather was a captain in the army, and usuallyresided at Lichfield, where he had married thedaughter of one of the vicars of the received his first school education at thegrammar-school of Lichfield. Fie was moredistinguished by his sprightliness than his ap-plication to literature ; and he gave a very earlyproof of his passion for the drama, by engag-ing his young companions to act the RecruitingOfficer, in which play he himself took the partof Serjeant Kite. At this time he was littlemore than eleven years of age, and the ap-plause he obtained probably made a durableimpression upon his mind. As the circum-stances of his father were narrow, it was.
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