GARRICK 
tuiformly fupported by every Jook and gefture while he. 
continued in fight of the audience, whether {peaking or filent. 
In the {pring of eal he commenced his career as a —— 
manager. He was admitted asan equal partner, and o: 
derate terms, ies Lacy t dag e fs ene 
wifely took different provinces : that of Lacy was the care 
of the {cenes, and the domeftic economy, while Garrick 
perintended he choice of plays, the diftribution of par 
and the treaties with authors and aftors. he theatre was 
Bone in September 1747, witha ie ogue by Mr. Johnfon. 
This was the prelude - a better era of dramatic exhibitions ; ; 
in particular i it ufhere the eae! of a number of Sha 
{peare’s ~plays, freed eaa the taftelefs and ee ruOUs 
soiieas which had been made to them by the writers of the 
palt century. Garrick was the living gael etlan f the 
great dramatift, and by the force of his action he called forth 
allthe latent beauties of theauthor, and excited in the audience 
ideas which might otherwife for ever have efcaped their no- 
tice 
Tn Garrick entered into the marriage life with 
Mademoifelle ee who had been a dancer on the tage, 
but who had bor moft irreproachable character. The 
union was a fource oer mutual felicity it was diffolved by 
death. In his charaéter of manager he was frequently en- 
gaged in unpleafant controverfies with ls rs, though it is 
admitted on all hands that his treatment of dramatic writers 
was more liberal than that of former managers. He, how- 
alae to be erroneous, nor was he difpofed to revoke a fen- 
tence once given n general he kept on go ood terms 
with the moft el aecunie a eed and received from many of 
eemed almoft the chief 
a 
{ured as ie eniarcae with re{pedci 
— ary t o ple afe aes eye, as , the m 
Siaaep shee is to fatisfy the judgme 
1762 our author and actor Solved to relax from his 
in atcur to the continent. Ac- 
seat cares and a 
i i , from whom he was infeparable, he 
companied by his w 
cite notice 
me Mademoifelle Dumefnil wa 
Pari s, but Garrick, without hefitation, venty foréte 
that Clairon would excel all her titors, and the refult 
verified his prediétions. Garrick returned after an ablence 
18 months, and was welcomed with raptures. The pro- 
logue fpoken by him on his firft night was one of the 
ieft efforts of the oe - he was obliged to 
ape nights. t to be even es in 
of acting, at likewife j in his general knowledge of 
being c 
of toys and implements, which were eagerly purchaled. 
The corporation of the town prefented to betiger the fi 
the. place in a box 
as a proper compliment to one who ia dane the poet fo 
much honour. ‘This incident fuggefted to him the idea of a 
ftival in commemoration of Shak{peare, upon the very {pot 
was put into execution in 
bu oa were raifed for 
the occafion, and various entertainments w lanned to fuit 
a variety of taftes. eee ef almoft all ranks, and from 
diftant parts of the kingdom, aflembled to — the me- 
mory of the poet. The jubilee lafted t 
weather was exceedingly unfavourable, ae t 
joyed was by no means equal to that 
admirers of Shakfpeare had eed. Neverthelefs Gar. 
rick, who was the foul of the feftival, exerted all his talent 
to gratify both the eye and the underftanding. He 
ofed feveral fongs for mufic, and an ode of Son eicaele 
length to the honour of his hero. Here he ex <pended a con- 
fiderable fum of money, and in the winter he took a method. 
of reimburfing himfelf. *¢ The jubilee was made a theatrical 
- exhibition, which became fo popular that it was reprefented,. 
=n after ‘night, for more than half the feafon, to crowded. 
ences. 
In 1773 the death of Mr. Lacy threw the fole manage- 
ment of the theatre on Mr. Garrick, but his health was on: 
the Tne = - abi of his life ill adapted.to addi- 
tional Jab ued, however, in the difchar rge of 
his eat duties Tome t time longer,-and rendered an 
effential fervice to the profeffion, oh he had dignified, by 
pias the plan « of an inftitution for the relief of decayed 
much liberality ye 
and in January 1776 he 
ek he determined on his retreat, 
rted with a moiety of the Drury-lane patent for the fum 
of 35,000/. ‘The laft charatter in which he appeared was 
Don Felix in ree “ iia: ? for the benefit of the thea- 
trical fun conclufion of the play he madc a brief 
arewel ee to ‘the audi ae - ich the genuine: pe - 
regret on both fides rendered truly pathetic; an 
fons ever pleats a public ae with more ve ferved ioe 
dits. ut Chrifbnas, 1778, being upon a vifit at the feat; 
of ea aac — was {cized with fome alarming fymptoms, 
ie induced him to haiten to London. He died on Ja- 
nuary 20, 1779, an nd. his remains were sepabhic with great 
pomp in Weltrniniter-abbey, attended by m 
the firit diftinGjion in rank talents. 
tch be given with any ge e of pr recifion. 
in the unmolefted enjoyment of his fame and. 
ene excellence to the moment of his retirement 
and: 
and fim aplcne, all 
fook, in cana, vttion of his eee while each of them 
? 1 
heart 
. 
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So 
this great performer borrowed all his leffons, being i in herfelf , 
inexhauftible, this her darling fon appeared as her: trueft ‘re-. 
prefentative, and found an unlimited as es Sete and di-- 
dae in his manner of copying from her various. produc-- 
tio Ther one part of his phestaiedl! conda& which 
aaah to be ceed to Garrick’s honour, fince the caufe of 
virtie and morality, and the formation of publi ic manners, are. 
confiderably a ore upon it ; and that is; the. zeal with 
which he ate to banifh from the ftage allithofe plays 
Honus carry with them an immoral tenden ncy, and to sie 
inehole uch do not abfolutely,.on the whole, prom 
Ge ee of vice, fuch feenes of. licentioufnefs and liberty 
as a redundancy of wit and too great livelinefs of i es pel 
tion have induced fome of our comic writers to indulge them-. 
ich the fympatheti “ve tion cae age 
2s 
has ae fan&tion 
. Gar’ was in Gia Glee 
r aman of the world, whofe viva-- 
city sae apparent volatility did not interfere with the fleady. 
purfuit - 
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