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played Cafiio, Amintor, Marc Antony, Alexander, &c. while Mohun,
who, as we learn from Lee’s exclamation, was a “ little man,” fenfiblv
affirmed fuch characters only, as in general did not require thofe endowments :
that they mutually adorned the ftage, inftruding as well as delighting their
auditors, we are allured by the following elegant compliment paid to their
refpedive merits in the pQthTatler.
“ My old friends, Hart and Mohun, the one by his natural and proper
force, the other by his great (kill and art, never failed to fend me home
full of fuch ideas as affeded my behaviour, and made me infenffbly more
courteous and humane to my friends and acquaintance.”
In a note on Steele’s Theatre, large 8vo. 1791, p. 4, it is faid that“ Mohun
was particularly remarkable for the dignity of his deportment and graceful
manner of treading the ftage.” It is alfo obferved therein, that ee the Earl of
Rochefter reproaches the comedians of the Duke of York’s company for
their vain attempts to ape his excellencies, and ridiculing his defeats, the
confequences of age and infirmity,” in the fubjoined lines.
“ Through-pac’d ill adors may, perhaps, be cur’d ;
“ Half players, like half wits, can’t be endur’d.
“ Yet thefe are they, who durff expofe the age
“ Of the great Wonder of the Engll/b ftage. [Major Mohun,
“ Whom Nature feem’d to form for your delight,
ie And bid him fpeak, as (he bid Shakefpear write.
“ Thofe blades indeed are cripples in their art,
{< Mimick his foot, but not his fpeaking part.
c< Let them the Traytor, or Volpone try;
c< Could they —■ —
“ Rage like Cethegus, or like Cajjius die,
“ They ne’er had fent to Paris for fuch fancies,
“ As monfters’ heads and merry Andrew's dances.”
By merry Andrew is meant Monf. St. Andre, as appears from a trad by
Gildon, called Comparijon between the two Stages, 1702. “ The late
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who, as we learn from Lee’s exclamation, was a “ little man,” fenfiblv
affirmed fuch characters only, as in general did not require thofe endowments :
that they mutually adorned the ftage, inftruding as well as delighting their
auditors, we are allured by the following elegant compliment paid to their
refpedive merits in the pQthTatler.
“ My old friends, Hart and Mohun, the one by his natural and proper
force, the other by his great (kill and art, never failed to fend me home
full of fuch ideas as affeded my behaviour, and made me infenffbly more
courteous and humane to my friends and acquaintance.”
In a note on Steele’s Theatre, large 8vo. 1791, p. 4, it is faid that“ Mohun
was particularly remarkable for the dignity of his deportment and graceful
manner of treading the ftage.” It is alfo obferved therein, that ee the Earl of
Rochefter reproaches the comedians of the Duke of York’s company for
their vain attempts to ape his excellencies, and ridiculing his defeats, the
confequences of age and infirmity,” in the fubjoined lines.
“ Through-pac’d ill adors may, perhaps, be cur’d ;
“ Half players, like half wits, can’t be endur’d.
“ Yet thefe are they, who durff expofe the age
“ Of the great Wonder of the Engll/b ftage. [Major Mohun,
“ Whom Nature feem’d to form for your delight,
ie And bid him fpeak, as (he bid Shakefpear write.
“ Thofe blades indeed are cripples in their art,
{< Mimick his foot, but not his fpeaking part.
c< Let them the Traytor, or Volpone try;
c< Could they —■ —
“ Rage like Cethegus, or like Cajjius die,
“ They ne’er had fent to Paris for fuch fancies,
“ As monfters’ heads and merry Andrew's dances.”
By merry Andrew is meant Monf. St. Andre, as appears from a trad by
Gildon, called Comparijon between the two Stages, 1702. “ The late
R 2