Author: Percy FitzgeraldPublisher:
ISBN: 9781330603413
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Excerpt from The Life of David Garrick, Vol. 2 of 2: From Original Family Papers, and Numerous, Published and Unpublished Sources A great critic - one whose strokes were those of an exquisitely trained boxer, as compared with the feeble buffeting of women and children - was now to step out of the crowd, and command the attention of the whole ring. Beside this masterly effort, the flutter of weak pamphlets and impotent libels, came down like a cloud of feathers. Here were real swinging knocks, planted with marvellous scientific skill, aimed at the sorest and tenderest places, making every one reel and stagger; and the satire, the splendid rhyme, the fine close English, "the wit, the strong and easy verse, the grasp of character, and the rude free daring of the Rosciad," were now to burst upon the town, and teach more scribblers with what deadly point and personality true genius can strike and kill. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
