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The wit consists entirely in the loco-motion of the actors. It is a very badly written pantomime.'

250. The School for Scandal. September 27, 1815.

Little Simmons. Samuel Simmons (1777-1819), a regular member of the
Covent Garden company from 1796, and very successful as a comedian.
Moses in The School for Scandal was one of his parts.

Cast some longing, etc. Gray's Elegy, St. 22.

251. Fawcett. John Fawcett (1768-1837), for many years manager of Covent

Garden.

Mrs. Gibbs. For an account of this actress, said to have been the wife of
George Colman the younger, see Mrs. Baron Wilson's Our Actresses, 1. 83-90.
Mr. Blanchard. William Blanchard (1769-1835), one of the Covent Garden
comedians. See Leigh Hunt's Critical Essays, p. 122.

Mr. Farley. Charles Farley (1771-1859), actor, dramatist, and stage

manager. last line.

The Examiner continues: Miss O'Neill has resumed her engagement at this house, and plays her usual characters to crowded audiences with even increased effect. We should attempt to describe her excellency in some of them, but that we feel ourselves unable to do her even tolerable justice.'

252. Mrs. Alsop's Rosalind. Covent Garden, October 18, 1815. Mrs. Alsop did not continue long on the stage. She was the daughter of Mrs. Jordan and Richard Daly, the Irish theatrical manager.

"No more like,' etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act 1. Sc. 2.

Her Nell. In The Devil to Pay.

The Will. By F. Reynolds, produced in 1797.

253. John Du Bart. October 25, 1815. The piece, attributed to Pocock, seems to have been founded on an exploit of the French naval hero, Jean Barth (1651-1702).

That which took place in Hyde Park. Hazlitt refers to the extraordinary thanksgiving jubilee, which took place in London on August 1, 1814, and following days. Part of the programme consisted of a sham fight on the Serpentine.

254. Mr. Bishop.

composer.

Afterwards Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (1786-1855), the

· Guns, drums, etc. Pope, Satires, 1. 26.

The Beggar's Opera. October 28, 1815. Cf. ante, pp. 193-5.

Miss Nash. Miss Nash had played Polly at Bath, November 4, 1813, a performance described by Genest as 'very good.'

255. Mrs. Davenport. Mary Ann Davenport (1765?-1843) first appeared at Covent Garden in 1794.

256. 1. 15. The Examiner adds: A new farce has been brought out at Drury-
Lane in the course of the week, called Twenty per Cent. It has succeeded
very well.
A voluble lying knave of a servant in it by Mr. Harley, who
plays this class of characters well, is its chief attraction. It is deficient in
plot, but not without pleasantry. It is improbable, lively, and short.' The
farce was by T. Dibdin.

Miss O'Neill's Elwina. Covent Garden, November 11. Hannah More's
Percy was produced in 1778.

1. 15.
The Theatrical Examiner for November 12, 1815, on Kean's
Bajazet, and Mrs. Mardyn and Mrs. Alsop in The Country Girl, is clearly
Hazlitt's.

257. There is one short word, etc. Fudge.' See The Vicar of Wakefield, chap. xi.

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258. 1. 24.

The Examiner continues: 'Miss Stephens has appeared twice in Polly, and once in Rosetta. She looks better than she did last year, and, if possible, sings better. Of the new Farce at Drury-Lane [Who's Who? or The Double Imposture], we have only room to add, that there is one good scene in it, in which Munden and Harley made a very grotesque contrast, with some tolerable equivoques; all the rest is a tissue of the most tedious and gross improbabilities. The author's wit appeared to have been elicited and expended in the same moment.'

Where to Find a Friend. By Leigh, produced at Drury Lane November 23, 1815.

260. Johnstone. John Henry Johnstone (1749-1828), a member of the Drury Lane company from 1803 to 1820. He began his career as a singer. "The milk of human kindness. Macbeth, Act 1. Sc. v.

261. Cymon. Garrick's play was produced in 1767.

"Sweet Passion of Love,' Act 111. Sc. 2.

It is silly sooth, etc. Twelfth Night, Act 11. Sc. 4.
'Now I am seventy-two.' Cymon, Act 11. Sc. 3.
'Split the ears,' etc. Hamlet, Act 1. Sc. 2.

262. What's a Man of Fashion? An indifferent farce' (according to Genest) by Reynolds.

263. With pleased attention,' etc. Collins, Epistle to Sir Thomas Hanmer, 59-63.

Collins is referring to Fletcher.

'Where did you rest last night?' The Orphan, Act IV. Sc. 3.

A cubit from his stature. Cf. St. Matthew, vi. 27.

The Honey-Moon. By John Tobin (1805).

"He still plays the dog. Cf. Henry VI., Part III. Act v. Sc. 6.

last line. The Examiner adds: Mrs. Marden [Mardyn] played Miss Hoyden

on Wednesday in the admirable comedy of the Trip to Scarborough. She seemed to consult her own genius in it less than the admonitions of some critics. There was accordingly less to find fault with, but we like her better when she takes her full swing.

"If to her share some trifling errors fall,

Look in her face, and you'll forget them all.'1

Mr. Penley's Lord Foppington had very considerable merit.

264. The Merchant of Bruges. A version by Douglas Kinnaird, Byron's friend, of Fletcher's comedy, The Beggar's Bush.

That every petty lord, etc. For this and the other passages quoted see The
Beggar's Bush, Act 1. Sc. 3.

266. 1. 17. In The Examiner the article continued as follows: The new musical farce, My Spouse and I, continues to be acted with deserved applause. It is by much the best thing brought out this season. It has a great deal of all that is necessary to a good farce, point, character, humour, and incident. It was admirably supported. Harley played a lively character of the bustling Fawcett-cast very happily. He may now stick very comfortably in the skirts of public favour, if he does not chuse to fling himself out of them. The only faults of this piece are, that it is too long in the second act, and that Miss Kelly continues somewhat too long in breeches, for the purposes of decorum. Mr. Barnard, as a country lad, played very well, and was deservedly encored in a song, "But not for me the merry bells." This piece is described by Genest as "an indifferent musical farce by C. Dibdin, Jun."'

1 Pope, The Rape of the Lock, 11, 17-18.

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266. Smiles and Tears. By Mrs. Charles Kemble (Maria Theresa De Camp 1774-1838), produced December 12, 1815.

268. Lucy Lockirt. In The Beggar's Opera.

Deaf and Dumb. A version (1801) of Bouilly's Abbé de l'Épée.

Father and Daughter. Mrs. Opie's (1-69-1853) first publication (1801).
1. 29. In The Examiner Hazlitt adds: Mr. Liston spoke an mafres
epilogue inimitably well'

George Barnwell. Cf. The Round Table, vol. 1. p. 154

• A custom more
tore honoured,” etc. Hamlet, Act. 1. Sc. 4

269. These odds more even. Cf. Measure for Measure, Act IL Sc. 1.

A good hater. See Boswell's Life of Johnson (ed. G. B. Hill, L. 192, 2. L
"He is the fitter for heaven. George Barnwell, Act II. Sc. 3.
"Could he lay, etc. Ibid. Act IV. Sc..1.

270. L. 10. The Examiner concludes: *Both Pantomimes are incifferent. That
at Drury-Lane consists in endless flights of magpies up to the ceiling, an
that at Covent-Garden stays too long in China. The latter part was bene
where Mr. Grimaldi comes in, and lets off a culverin at his enemies, a
sings a serenade to his mistress in concert with Grimalkin. We were gi
right glad, to see Mr. Grimaldi again. There was (some weeks back an
ugly report that Mr. Grimaldi was dead. We would not believe n; we
did not like to ask any one the question, but we watched the public crus-
tenance for the intimation of an event which would have eclipses the
gaiety of nations." We looked at the faces we met in the street, but
there were no signs of general sadness; no one stopped his acquaintance to
say, that a man of genius was no more. Here inacea he is again, sale and
sound, and as pleasant as ever. As without the gentleman at St. Helena,
there is an end of politics in Europe; so without the clown at Sacri
Wells, there must be an end of pantomimes in this country !*
The Bury Body. Mrs. Centlivre's comedy (1709).

"His voice, en. As You Like It, Act n. Sc. 7.

271. Barnes. Mrs. Barnes from Exeter.' December 29, 1815• The divine Desdemona. Othello, Act п. Sc. 1.

* That flows in," tc. Ibid. Act m. Sc. 3.

Zange or Bajanet. In Young's The Revenge and Rowe's Tamerlane respectively. 272. * Then, ok, farewell!' For this and the other Orkells quotations see P. 189.

A New Way to Pay Old Dein. Sir Giles Overreach was one of Kere's greatest parts. See Doran's Annals of the Exgink Stage (ed. Lot

III. 390-1.

It has been considered, etc. Part of this passage was repeated in The Run
Tahir. See vol 1. pp. 156-7, and notes.

273. Two at a time, etc. The Beggar's Opera, Act m. Sc. 4.

Erwan John Edwin, the elder (1749-1790), one of the great comediars d

his day.

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275. Injurious Hermia, etc. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act ш. Sc. 2. 277. Is he not moved, etc. A New Way to Pay Old Debts, Act iv. Sc. 1. Lord,-Right Honourable Lord. Ibid. Act 11. Sc. 1, and Act 1. Sc. 2. Do themselves homage. Othello, Act 1. Sc. 1.

It came twanging off. A New Way to Pay Old Debts, Act III. Sc. 2. 278. Love for Love. January 23, 1816.

279.

Munden's Foresight. Cf. ante, p. 71.

Parsons. William Parsons (1736-1795), the comic Roscius.' Foresight was one of his best parts.

"School's up,' etc.

An interpolation apparently.

'A great sea-porpoise.' 'You great sea-calf,' Miss Prue says to him (Act II. Sc. 7).

And pray sister,' etc.

The Anglade Family.

Act 11. Sc. 9.

Accusation, or The Family of D'Anglade, adapted from

the French by J. H. Payne, and produced February 1, 1816. The Maid and the Magpye. Cf. ante, p. 244.

280. note. Lavalette, after the second Bourbon restoration in 1815, was, along with Ney, condemned to death, but escaped by changing clothes with his wife. Cf. vol. 1. p. 157 and note.

281. The same drama. The Covent Garden version (February 1) was by James Kenney.

Mathews. Charles Mathews (1776-1835), one of the best comedians, and the greatest mimic of his time. Hazlitt's admiration of him was not enthusiastic.

Charles Kemble. Charles Kemble (1775-1854), the younger brother of Mrs. Siddons and John Philip Kemble, first appeared in London in 1794, and retired in 1840.

Cf. vol. 1. (Characters of Shakespear's

Measure for Measure. Covent Garden, February 8, 1816.
Lectures on Dramatic Literature, etc.
Plays), p. 346 and note.

282. The cowl, etc. Cf. All hoods

Act . Sc. 1.

make not monks.'

Henry VIII,

'If I do lose thee, etc. Measure for Measure, Act ш. Sc. 1.

283. To lie in cold obstruction, etc. Ibid.

Careless,' etc. Ibid. Act Iv. Sc. 2.

He has been drinking hard, etc. Ibid. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"A dish of some three-pence. Ibid. Act 11. Sc. 1.

"There is some soul,' etc. Henry V., Act iv. Sc. 1.

Society for the Suppression of Vice. See vol. 1. p. 60, and note.

284. The enemies of the human race. The phrase was applied to Buonaparte. Cf. vol. ix. p. 321.

"Oh fie, fie. Measure for Measure, Act 11. Sc. 1.

Vetus. See vol. 1. pp. 57 et seq., and notes.

'Marall, come hither, Marall. See ante, note to p. 274.

285. 1. 35. In The Examiner the article concludes: 'Rosina has been acted at this theatre to introduce the two Miss Halfords in the characters of Rosina and Phabe. They have both of them succeeded, and equally well. If they are not a pair of Sirens, they are very pretty singers. Miss E. Halford is the tallest, and Miss S. Halford the fattest of the two.'

286. The mob are so pleased, etc. The Recruiting Officer, Act 1. Sc. 1. "Oh, the wonderful works of Nature. Ibid. Act 11. Sc. 3.

'Well, Tummy. Ibid.

287. 1. 6. In The Examiner the article concludes as follows: The new farce of

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What Next? is very broad, very improbable, but if better managed, might have been made very laughable. The plot turns entirely on the disguise assumed by a nephew to personate his uncle, which leads to several ridiculous surprises and blunders, and the carrying on and the disentangling of the plot is effected with much more violence than art. It was once or twice in danger, but it hurried on so rapidly from absurdity to absurdity, that it at last distanced the critics. Even as a farce, it is too crude and coarse ever to become a very great favourite.' 'A moderate Farce by T. Dibdin' (Genest), produced at Drury Lane, Feb. 29.

287. The Fair Penitent. By Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718), produced in 1703. On the present occasion Charles Kemble played Lothario.

"A Muse of fire,' etc.

Henry V., Prologue.

An awkward imitator of Shakespear.' See Tom Jones, Book 1x. chap. 1. 288. Which to be hated, etc. Pope's Essay on Man, 11. 218.

"It was the day,' etc. The Fair Penitent, Act II. Sc. I.

Last line. The article in The Examiner concludes with a brief reference to the re-appearance of Braham in Israel in Egypt, and gives the speech addressed by him to the audience, who had received him with some signs of disapprobation.

289. The Duke of Milan. Published in 1623.

"Which felt a stain,' etc. Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Select Works, ed. Payne, 11. 89).

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290. Proud to die,' etc. The Duke of Milan, Act v. Sc. z.

Some widow's curse,' etc. See ante, note to p. 274.

By orphans' tears. See ante, note to p. 277.

291. 1. 5. Add: 'Mr. Bartley spoke a new prologue on the occasion, which was well received.'

Miss O'Neill's Lady Teaxle. In The Examiner this article begins as follows:
'Miss O'Neill [we beg pardon of the Board of Green Cloth, and are almost
afraid that this style of theatrical criticism may not be quite consistent
with the principles of subordination and the scale of respectability about to be
established in Europe; for we read in the Examiner of last week the following
paragraph: "At Berlin, orders have been given by the police to leave out
the titles of Mr., Mrs., and Miss, prefixed to the names of public actors.
The females are to take the name of frou. Accordingly we see the part of
Desdemona, in Shakespeare's tragedy of Othello, is given out to be played by
frou (woman) Schrok." This is as it should be, and legitimate. But to
proceed till further orders in the usual style].'

Miss Farren. Elizabeth Farren (1759-1829), who first played in London in
1777, retired in 1797, and in the same year married the 12th Earl of
Derby. Cf. ante, p. 389. Her last appearance was in the character of
Lady Teazle.

292. Mrs. Egerton. Sarah Egerton (1782-1847) first appeared in London in 1811, and retired in 1835. Mrs. Baron Wilson (Our Actresses, 1. 79) relates that on the occasion here referred to by Hazlitt she played Meg Merrilies in place of Emery, who 'refused to put on petticoats.'

293.

The late Mr. Cooke. George Frederick Cooke (1756-1811) was frequently too intoxicated to appear on the stage. See ante, note to p. 207. "The web of our life, etc. All's Well that Ends Well, Act iv. Sc. 3. 'Like the giddy sailor, etc. Misquoted from Richard III., Act 111. Sc. 4. 294.Deep than loud. Cf. 'Curses, not loud, but deep.' Macbeth, Act v. Sc. 3. 295. The following account. See ante, pp. 179-80.

296. 'I would not have parted with it,' etc. The Merchant of Venice, Act . Sc. 1.