Good Queen Anne Or Men And Manners Life And Letters in Englands Augustan Age
Good Queen Anne Or Men And Manners Life And Letters in Englands Augustan Age
W H Davenport William Henry Davenport Adams
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gallery. ' His particular excellence was in characters that may be called still life — I mean the stiff, the heavy, and the stupid. To those he gave the exactest and most ex- pressive colours, and in some of them looked as if it were not in the power of human passions to alter a feature of him. In the solemn formality of Obadiah in " The Com- mittee, " and in the boobily heaviness of Lolprop in " The Squire of Alsatia, " he seemed the immovable log he cared for : a countenance of wood could not... be more frigid than his when the blockhead of a character required it. His face was full and long : from his crown to the end of his nose was the shorter half of it ; so that the disproportion of his lower features, when soberly compressed, with an unwondering eye hanging over them, threw him into the most lumpish, moping mortal that ever made beholders merry ; not but, at other times, he could be wakened into spirit equally ridiculous. In the coarse rustic humour of Justice Clodfeet, in " Epsom Wells, " he was a delightful brute ; and in the blunt vivacity of Sir Sampson, in " Love for Love, " he showed all .
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