[The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb]@TWC D-Link bookThe Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 CHAPTER XIII 165/165
I think him in the right: _Hoec sunt majora gravitate Heracliti.
These follies are enough to give crying Heraclitus a fit of the spleene._" MR.
H----. A FARCE, IN TWO ACTS. AS IT WAS PERFORMED AT DRURY LANE THEATRE, DECEMBER, 1806. * * * * * "Mr.H----, thou wert DAMNED.
Bright shone the morning on the play-bills that announced thy appearance, and the streets were filled with the buzz of persons asking one another if they would go to see Mr.H----, and answering that they would certainly; but before night the gaiety, not of the author, but of his friends and the town, was eclipsed, for thou wert DAMNED! Hadst thou been anonymous, thou haply mightst have lived.
Bet thou didst come to an untimely end for thy tricks, and for want of a better name to pass them off--" _Theatrical Examiner_. * * * * * CHARACTERS. Mr.H---- _Mr.Elliston_. BELVIL _Mr.Bartley_. LANDLORD PRY _Mr.Wewitzer_. MELESINDA _Miss Mellon_. MAID TO MELESINDA _Mrs.Harlowe_. Gentlemen, Ladies, Waiters, Servants, &c. _Scene_--BATH..
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