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Memoirs Of The Late . Dr. Paul Hiffernan.
mind in inventing the drama , and conducting it to perfection ; with a candid disquisition of the rules laid down by critics . The third exhibits a philosophical . analysis of the pre-requisites of the art of acting . . The fourth displays the criteria of Dramatic Genius in composition , and the beautiful and sublime of acting ; and the fifth treats of architecture , painting and other arts , so far as they are necessary to Theatrical
representation . There is in this , as in most of Hiffernan's writings , a mixture of science and absurdi ty . He had not taste sufficient to " set off his learning , and his familiar life was such as to shut out all improvement . The characters of the several plays of Shakespeare given in this work are in Latin as well as in English ; and as the Doctor piqued himself on his Latinity , the reader will judge for himself what excellence he possessed in that language from the following specimen of the character » f Richard the Third .
Ricafdus Tertius . Imperium obtinuit primorum strage virorum , Justitiam , Leges , natura . et jura perosus ; Reges Henricum , fratremque , et pignora amoris Sustulit e medio truculenta mente , Ricardus Astutusque , toro , et mprti promoverat Annam . Cognitas umbras menti fera somnia pingunt ,
Sin excussa quies—vanse excutiuntur et umbra ; . Religione tegit facinus , quia sanguinis ultro . Prodigus human ! efifuderat—omnis Ordo gemit populi ; juga solvere barbara jurat . Richmondus petitur ; Gallorum elapsiis ab oris Advolat in patriam—CeCinerunt horrida helium Classica—¦ Boswortbi in campo ' pugnatur : —acerba Funera densantur—mediis in millibus ardet
Regia sawitus—et equo privatur—ab omni Milite clamat Equum , regni pretio-. furibunda , lmpatiens , volar hue ; illuc sua pralia jaftans : " Sex Richmond ; hodie dextrfi hac cecidere , morantem " Richmondum quoties , " ranco vox incrcpat ore ! , Convenere !—enses rapido mucrone corruscant . Viilnera vulneribus geminantur , et ictibus ictus—r—Rex fato opprimitur—Victor ! cedere regnum Cogitur ; infrendit moriens , " . / Eterna repents ' ' Nox ruat in terras , perituro prologus orbi . "
The subscriptions he gained by this work were very considerable , as Garrick exerted himself among his friends for the author—and who . could refuse Garrick on the subject of the stage ? And yet , though these exertions mi ght have done credit to the friendship of our English . Roscins , they did not serve his delicacy very much , as the praises so lavishly bestowed on him should have in some respect withheld his
personal interference ; besides , they were too fulsome in themselves to add any degree of credit to such established abilities . The amount . of these subscriptions we do not exactly know , but should suppose to be from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and fifty pounds ; a temporary mine to such a man as Hiffernan , who lived so much with the public , and who , in his interior life , there is every
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Memoirs Of The Late . Dr. Paul Hiffernan.
mind in inventing the drama , and conducting it to perfection ; with a candid disquisition of the rules laid down by critics . The third exhibits a philosophical . analysis of the pre-requisites of the art of acting . . The fourth displays the criteria of Dramatic Genius in composition , and the beautiful and sublime of acting ; and the fifth treats of architecture , painting and other arts , so far as they are necessary to Theatrical
representation . There is in this , as in most of Hiffernan's writings , a mixture of science and absurdi ty . He had not taste sufficient to " set off his learning , and his familiar life was such as to shut out all improvement . The characters of the several plays of Shakespeare given in this work are in Latin as well as in English ; and as the Doctor piqued himself on his Latinity , the reader will judge for himself what excellence he possessed in that language from the following specimen of the character » f Richard the Third .
Ricafdus Tertius . Imperium obtinuit primorum strage virorum , Justitiam , Leges , natura . et jura perosus ; Reges Henricum , fratremque , et pignora amoris Sustulit e medio truculenta mente , Ricardus Astutusque , toro , et mprti promoverat Annam . Cognitas umbras menti fera somnia pingunt ,
Sin excussa quies—vanse excutiuntur et umbra ; . Religione tegit facinus , quia sanguinis ultro . Prodigus human ! efifuderat—omnis Ordo gemit populi ; juga solvere barbara jurat . Richmondus petitur ; Gallorum elapsiis ab oris Advolat in patriam—CeCinerunt horrida helium Classica—¦ Boswortbi in campo ' pugnatur : —acerba Funera densantur—mediis in millibus ardet
Regia sawitus—et equo privatur—ab omni Milite clamat Equum , regni pretio-. furibunda , lmpatiens , volar hue ; illuc sua pralia jaftans : " Sex Richmond ; hodie dextrfi hac cecidere , morantem " Richmondum quoties , " ranco vox incrcpat ore ! , Convenere !—enses rapido mucrone corruscant . Viilnera vulneribus geminantur , et ictibus ictus—r—Rex fato opprimitur—Victor ! cedere regnum Cogitur ; infrendit moriens , " . / Eterna repents ' ' Nox ruat in terras , perituro prologus orbi . "
The subscriptions he gained by this work were very considerable , as Garrick exerted himself among his friends for the author—and who . could refuse Garrick on the subject of the stage ? And yet , though these exertions mi ght have done credit to the friendship of our English . Roscins , they did not serve his delicacy very much , as the praises so lavishly bestowed on him should have in some respect withheld his
personal interference ; besides , they were too fulsome in themselves to add any degree of credit to such established abilities . The amount . of these subscriptions we do not exactly know , but should suppose to be from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and fifty pounds ; a temporary mine to such a man as Hiffernan , who lived so much with the public , and who , in his interior life , there is every