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Poetical Works. Charles Churchill
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[31] 'Obrien:' a small actor; originally a fencing-master.
[32] 'Jackson:' afterwards manager of the Royal Theatre, Edinburgh.
[33] 'Love:' James Love, an actor and dramatic writer, who could play
nothing well but Falstaff.
[34] 'Dominic:' Dryden's 'Spanish Friar.' [35] 'Boniface:' The jovial
landlord in Farquhar's 'Beaux Stratagem.'
[36] 'Austin,' &c.: all small and forgotten actors.
[37] 'Moody:' Moody excelled in Irish characters.
[38] 'Bayes:' alluding to the summer theatre in the Haymarket, where Murphy's plays were got up and acted under the joint management of himself and Mr. Foote.
[39] 'Elliot:' a female actress of great merit.
[40] 'Ledgers:' the Public Ledger, a newspaper.
[41] 'Vaughan:' Thomas Vaughan, a friend of Murphy.
[42] 'Little factions:' Murphy had called Churchill and his friends
'The Little Faction.'
[43] 'Militia:' the Westminster militia and the city of London trained
bands and lumber troopers, afforded much amusement.
[44] 'Sparks:' Luke Sparks, an actor of the time, rather hard in his
manner.
[45] 'Smith:' Called Gentleman Smith,' an actor in genteel comedy,
corpulent in person.
[46] 'Ross:' a Scotchman, dissipated in his habits.
[47] 'Statira:' Ross's Statira was Mrs. Palmer, the daughter of Mrs. Pritchard.
[48] 'Macklin:' Charles Macklin, alias M'Laughlin, good in such characters as Shylock, &c.; no tragedian; a lecturer on elocution; coarse in features.
[49] 'Sheridan:' father of Richard Brinsley. See Boswell and Moore.
[50] 'Islington:' the new river.
[51] 'Rolt:' a drudge to the booksellers, who plagiarised Akenside's
'Pleasures of Imagination,' and was a coadjutor with Christopher
Smart in the 'Universal Visitor.' See Boswell.
[52] 'Lun:' Mr. John Rich, the manager of Covent Garden and Lincoln's
Inn Fields Theatre, called Lun for his performance of Harlequin; famous
for pantomimes.
[53] 'Clive:' Catherine Clive, a celebrated comic actress, of very diversified powers; 'a better romp' than Jonson 'ever saw in nature.'
[54] 'Pope:' a pleasing protégé of Mrs. Clive.
[55] 'Vincent:' Mrs. Vincent, a tolerable actress and a fine singer.
[56] 'Arne:' a fine musician, but no writer.
[57] 'Brent:' a female scholar of Arne's, very popular as Polly in the 'Beggars Opera.'
[58] 'Beard and Vincent:' famous singers.
[59] 'Yates:' Anna Maria Yates, the wife of Richard Yates, mentioned in
a preceding note.
[60] 'Hart:' Mrs. Hart, a demirep, married to one Reddish, who, after
her death, wedded Mrs. Canning, mother of the great statesman.
[61] 'Bride:' another beautiful, but disreputable actress.
[62] 'Stale flower,' &c.: an unmanly allusion to Mrs. Palmer, the daughter of Mrs. Pritchard, who was greatly inferior to her mother.
[63] 'Cibber:' sister to Arne, and wife to the once notorious Theophilus Cibber, the son of the hero of the 'Dunciad.' She was no better in character than many actresses of that day; but sang so plaintively, that a bishop who heard her once cried out, 'Woman, thy sins be forgiven thee!'
[64] 'Pritchard:' according to Johnson, 'in private a vulgar idiot, but who, on the stage, seemed to become inspired with gentility and understanding.'
[65] 'Pantomime:' the 'Mourning Bride.'
[66] 'Thane:' Macbeth.
[67] 'Juletta:' a witty maid-servant in the play of 'The Pilgrim.'
[68] The 'Jealous Wife:' the 'Jealous Wife,' by Colman, was taken from
the story of Lady Bellaston, in 'Tom Jones.'
[69] 'Mossop:' Henry Mossop, a powerful, fiery, but irregular actor,
very unfortunate in life.
[70] 'Right-hand:' Mossop practised the 'tea-pot attitude.'
[71] 'Barry:' Spranger Barry, mentioned above as Garrick's great rival. He acted in Covent Garden.
[72] 'Quin:' the friend of Thomson, (see 'Castle of Indolence'),
instructor in reading of George III., famous for indolence, wit, good
nature, and corpulence.
[73] 'Betterton:' the great actor of the seventeenth century, whose
funeral and character are described in the 'Tatler.' Booth was his
successor and copy.
[74] 'Lined:' supported.
[75] 'Rowe.' Andromache, in the tragedy of the 'Distressed Mother,' by Ambrose Philips, and Lothario, in the 'Fair Penitent,' by Rowe.
[76] 'Brute:' Sir John Brute, in Vanbrugh's 'Provoked Wife.'
[77] 'Dorax:' a soldier in Dryden's 'Don Sebastian.'
[78] 'Sheridan:' see a previous note.
[79] 'Nailor:' pugilist.
[80] 'Hubert:' in King John.
[81] 'Garrick:' see Boswell and Murphy's life of that great actor.
[82] 'Serjeant Kite:' the recruiting serjeant in Farquhar's 'Recruiting Officer.'
THE APOLOGY.
ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS.[83]
Tristitiam et Metus.—HORACE.
Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,
Assume the pompous port, the martial stride;
O'er arm Herculean heave the enormous shield,
Vast as a weaver's beam the javelin wield;
With the loud voice of thundering Jove defy,
And dare to single combat—what?—A fly!
And laugh we less when giant names, which shine
Establish'd, as it were, by right divine;
Critics, whom every captive art adores,
To whom glad Science pours forth all her stores; 10
Who high in letter'd reputation sit,
And hold, Astraea-like, the scales of wit,
With partial rage rush forth—oh! shame to tell!—
To crush a bard just bursting from the shell?
Great are his perils in this stormy time
Who rashly ventures on a sea of rhyme:
Around vast surges roll, winds envious blow,
And jealous rocks and quicksands