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Article REVIEW OF LITERATURE THE DRAMA. &c. ← Page 8 of 8
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Review Of Literature The Drama. &C.
THE DRAMA . Barnes , the Pantaloon . — " - Barnes , the Nestor of Pantaloons , " is theatrically dead . On the Sth of September , 1838 , he expired amidst his younger companions , seated in an aim-chair , on the stage of the English Opera House , the front of which—glad are we to relate it—was crowded ban audience of whom doubt not owed
y , very , very many we some of the happiest moments of their lives—of those moments , when laughter , loud , " heart-curing " laughter is felt to be the highest privilege of man—the great enjoyment which , as philosophers avow , elevates ancl distinguishes him from the lower animals . AVe hope that the benefit of the " lean and slippered pantaloon " has been really beneficial . It is not pleasant to think of one—who in the hey-day of his blood , took thumps and bumps for our especial delight , —knocked down in good earnest the iron club of want
by , though we have laughed to see him cheated of a nice tit-bit by the felonious clown , —it would be especially annoying to us that , in his real old age , poor Pantaloon went supperless to bed . Though in our boyhood , we have shouted ancl chuckled at his injuries—have seen him all but stript , and running from duns , now fast locked in gaol , —we would subscribe our mite to keep his " shrunk shank " warm in winter hoseto surround him with little household comforts
, , tdl beckoned by the bailiff , —Death . We earnestly hope that the few remaining years of poor Barnes—they can be but few—will be soothed and made easy to him by his admiring friends . The pantaloon has , in himself the satisfaction of learning that for more than a quarter of a century , he has ministered to nothing but the wholesome enjoyment of his fellow-creatures ; a satisfaction by the way denied to your Ciesars and your Napoleons .
Did time ancl space permit we could write a long essay on the admirable qualities of the Pantaloon of Barnes ; it was surpassingly admirable . Nor was he without great talent as an actor even of some of the smaller parts of Shakspeare . How capital was his Feeble ! his " most forcible Feeble ! " It was the very genius of paralysis become military . No man could carve as perfect a statue on a cherry-stone as poor Barnes . Soft be his pillow—and peaceful his departure . ' D . J .
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Review Of Literature The Drama. &C.
THE DRAMA . Barnes , the Pantaloon . — " - Barnes , the Nestor of Pantaloons , " is theatrically dead . On the Sth of September , 1838 , he expired amidst his younger companions , seated in an aim-chair , on the stage of the English Opera House , the front of which—glad are we to relate it—was crowded ban audience of whom doubt not owed
y , very , very many we some of the happiest moments of their lives—of those moments , when laughter , loud , " heart-curing " laughter is felt to be the highest privilege of man—the great enjoyment which , as philosophers avow , elevates ancl distinguishes him from the lower animals . AVe hope that the benefit of the " lean and slippered pantaloon " has been really beneficial . It is not pleasant to think of one—who in the hey-day of his blood , took thumps and bumps for our especial delight , —knocked down in good earnest the iron club of want
by , though we have laughed to see him cheated of a nice tit-bit by the felonious clown , —it would be especially annoying to us that , in his real old age , poor Pantaloon went supperless to bed . Though in our boyhood , we have shouted ancl chuckled at his injuries—have seen him all but stript , and running from duns , now fast locked in gaol , —we would subscribe our mite to keep his " shrunk shank " warm in winter hoseto surround him with little household comforts
, , tdl beckoned by the bailiff , —Death . We earnestly hope that the few remaining years of poor Barnes—they can be but few—will be soothed and made easy to him by his admiring friends . The pantaloon has , in himself the satisfaction of learning that for more than a quarter of a century , he has ministered to nothing but the wholesome enjoyment of his fellow-creatures ; a satisfaction by the way denied to your Ciesars and your Napoleons .
Did time ancl space permit we could write a long essay on the admirable qualities of the Pantaloon of Barnes ; it was surpassingly admirable . Nor was he without great talent as an actor even of some of the smaller parts of Shakspeare . How capital was his Feeble ! his " most forcible Feeble ! " It was the very genius of paralysis become military . No man could carve as perfect a statue on a cherry-stone as poor Barnes . Soft be his pillow—and peaceful his departure . ' D . J .