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The Stage.
Else B ARRYMORE mig ht claim the tribute due , Who acts with spirit—Kemble in his view ; And W HITFIELD , doom'd to linger in the shade , While meaner talents glare in vain parade ; FARREN , who climbs not to . the heig hts of fame , But treads on solid ground with steady aim ; bard
Or modest HARLEY , who , himself a , Still eyes his author with a deep regard : And M IDDLETON , with youthful spirit warm , Whose daring hope the rival muses charm ; FA-WCETT , who EDWIN ' S loss would fain atone , And Avhothough coarsehas humour of his own ;
, , M OUNTAIN the placid , and DE CAMP the gay , Alike with taste to sing , and sense to play ; LV . , hig h already ' mid the tuneful band , The gentle G OODALL , and the sprightly BLAND ; The buxom M ARTYR , milder CHAPMAN ' claim , And more ' with talents not unknown to fame .
,. On these we haply may renew the plan , And their respective-merits'fairly scan ; . But lo I the SCENIC SUN displays its beam ,-And hence we hasten to a prouder theme . ( TO BE CONTINUED . )
Advice To An Attorney's Clerk.
ADVICE TO AN ATTORNEY'S CLERK .
YOU are to consider yourself as one of the limbs of that noble profession , the head of which takes precedence of all the-lay Peers in England ; and whose members haA'e swelled the Right Honourables of the Court Calendar more than the navy , army ,- and the church put together . You ought therefore to imagine yourself a man of some consequence , especially during term time , and are entitled
to act accordingly . . For this purpose you must affect to be very familiar with the names of the leading counsel , and should quote your friends Erskine , Bearcroft , and Scott , upon all occasions . As you have then but a step between you and the bench , after the second pint , I see no good reason ( as I am sure that you are . equally well acquainted with them ) old friends and
why you may not make free with your Kenyon Loughborough . A smutty story told you on the circuit by Willes , or a ' little anecdote about Lord ThuiioAv , if accompanied Avith a feAV oaths , a dark complexion , and a prolusion of the eye-brows , will give you some consequence at a'Sunday ordinary . . „ .. . ' If your master—I beg your pardon , your employer— -is of a lazy disposition , you also may ' indulge yourself of a morning : no gentle-
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The Stage.
Else B ARRYMORE mig ht claim the tribute due , Who acts with spirit—Kemble in his view ; And W HITFIELD , doom'd to linger in the shade , While meaner talents glare in vain parade ; FARREN , who climbs not to . the heig hts of fame , But treads on solid ground with steady aim ; bard
Or modest HARLEY , who , himself a , Still eyes his author with a deep regard : And M IDDLETON , with youthful spirit warm , Whose daring hope the rival muses charm ; FA-WCETT , who EDWIN ' S loss would fain atone , And Avhothough coarsehas humour of his own ;
, , M OUNTAIN the placid , and DE CAMP the gay , Alike with taste to sing , and sense to play ; LV . , hig h already ' mid the tuneful band , The gentle G OODALL , and the sprightly BLAND ; The buxom M ARTYR , milder CHAPMAN ' claim , And more ' with talents not unknown to fame .
,. On these we haply may renew the plan , And their respective-merits'fairly scan ; . But lo I the SCENIC SUN displays its beam ,-And hence we hasten to a prouder theme . ( TO BE CONTINUED . )
Advice To An Attorney's Clerk.
ADVICE TO AN ATTORNEY'S CLERK .
YOU are to consider yourself as one of the limbs of that noble profession , the head of which takes precedence of all the-lay Peers in England ; and whose members haA'e swelled the Right Honourables of the Court Calendar more than the navy , army ,- and the church put together . You ought therefore to imagine yourself a man of some consequence , especially during term time , and are entitled
to act accordingly . . For this purpose you must affect to be very familiar with the names of the leading counsel , and should quote your friends Erskine , Bearcroft , and Scott , upon all occasions . As you have then but a step between you and the bench , after the second pint , I see no good reason ( as I am sure that you are . equally well acquainted with them ) old friends and
why you may not make free with your Kenyon Loughborough . A smutty story told you on the circuit by Willes , or a ' little anecdote about Lord ThuiioAv , if accompanied Avith a feAV oaths , a dark complexion , and a prolusion of the eye-brows , will give you some consequence at a'Sunday ordinary . . „ .. . ' If your master—I beg your pardon , your employer— -is of a lazy disposition , you also may ' indulge yourself of a morning : no gentle-