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Old and New London
… a rulemaker, and the malicious assailant of Johnson and Garrick, was the Croker of his day. He originated the London … the Rev. Miller, who translated Voltaire's "Mahomet" for Garrick, never came up to the surface again. It was at …
Old and New London
… up as a satirist for the stage, and eventually, through Garrick's patronage, succeeded in sentimental comedy. It was … A third member was Captain Thompson, a friend of Garrick's, who wrote some good sea songs and edited "Andrew … was the good-natured bookseller who lent Johnson and Garrick, when they first came up to London to seek their …
Old and New London
… Progress.'. . . . "Of all persons near our own time, Garrick's name was received with the greatest enthusiasm. He …
Old and New London
… the Abbey, near the feet of Shakespeare and by the side of Garrick. The great scholar, whose ways and sayings, whose … Bolt Court came Johnson's friends Reynolds and Gibbon, and Garrick, and Percy, and Langton; but poor Goldsmith had died … now returning from pleasant dinners with Wilkes and Garrick, Malone and Dr. Burney; now sitting alone over his …
Survey of London
… Lincoln's Inn Fields." 29 It is said that on the day of Garrick's funeral (1779), after the ceremony was over, … acted generally at Drury Lane, being almost entirely in Garrick's company from 1746 until her retirement in 1769. … 104.) Moore's Memoirs of Sheridan, p. 213. F. M. Parsons' Garrick and His Circle, p. 369. As an example of how false …
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward I
… Adam del, 251. Grenerigg, Henry son of Adam de, 177. See Garrick. Grenestede, Master John de, parson of Bledelowe, 97. …
Calendar of Home Office Papers (George III)
… Garnier, M., Secretary to the French Embassy complaint Garrick, Nathan Garrisons, the command in Garth, Chas. …
Old and New London
… not far off at "Button's": at the Bedford we shall meet Garrick and Quin; and then stop for a few minutes at "Tom … whole region both of tragedy and of comedy. Quin's jokes, Garrick's weaknesses, the celebrated "O. P." riots, the …
Survey of London
… Lane at its east end and Brydges Street at its south end. Garrick Street, the east end of Tavistock Street, Burleigh … gave the pattern of roadways nearly its present form. Garrick Street, situated almost entirely outside the parish …
Old and New London
… respectively being the 'Infant Phenomenon' and the 'Modern Garrick.' But the youngest actors carried off the palm. There …
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