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Show "THE'LIF 'O nostris -poetis, aut inertissime segnitie est aut fastidii delicatissimi. Mihi quidem null satis erudil sunt* videntur quibus nostra ignot For this reason, it appeared to me, tha an account of the ‘several plays was absolutel requisite ; but the lives and characters of th authors ‘would have drawn me into a lengt foreign to the work in'hand Such digression would have made a motley mixture, and, wi regard to Garrick, would have left little more than a peep behind the curtain IT now remains, that we fix our stand as i were, on an eminence, to take a ret ospectiv vie a jus of a very extraerdinar estimat o man, and for his character TFor thi purpose, Garrick presents himself i four dif ferent attitudes I th firs place as th clean.sh data import.tsv out README Cicero de Finibus, Lib. I. 5. mana ge |