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for Covent garden. Here his powers had full fcope, and his ambition was
fatisfied for fome time at leaft; and here he entered the lifts of competition
againft a man which none hitherto had ventured to approach: they
played all their principal characters againft each other with various
fuccefs...
In this contention they remained till 1758, when Barry joining with
Woodward, undertook an expedition to Ireland, where they built two
elegant playhoufes, one in Crow-ftreet, Dublin, the other in Cork, and,
as joint managers, exerted their refpedtive abilities with thofe of a very
refpedtable company. However, after trying this fcheme for a few
years, what with the expence of building, the great falaries and in-
creafe of performers, and the., uncertain returns of their theatres, they
both found they had changed fituations for the worfe. Woodward firft
difcovered his error, and making the beft bargain he could with Barry,
withdrew- himfelf to England. Barry ftayedbut a few-feafons after him,
and arriving in London in the fummer of 1766, hired the king's theatre
in the Hay-market for a few nights, where he firft introduced to an
Engliih audience Mrs. Dancer, whom he brought from Ireland with
him, and afterwards married.
He went back to Ireland the enfuing winter to fulfil his engagements
there, and returned to London the fummer following, and adted feveral
nights at Foote’s theatre: his great and eftabliihed reputation, .and Mrs.
Dancer’s merit, which every day became more and more confpicuous,
drew crouded audiences in the hotteft days of July and Auguft.
The managers of Drury-lane (who had lately loft Mrs. Cibber and Mr.
Powell)' thought it advifeable to- come to an agreement with Mr. and
Mrs. Barry, and accordingly engaged them at a falary of 1500I. per
annum. This ftipend was accounted the more confiderable, from his
being fo fubjedt to chronical diforders5 however,. when his health
permitted him to exert his powers, he communicated his admirable
feelings to the beft company that London could produce.
In the Grecian daughter they fhone with unrivalled luftre5 the feeble
and affeding part of Evander was well adapted to the venerable figure and
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for Covent garden. Here his powers had full fcope, and his ambition was
fatisfied for fome time at leaft; and here he entered the lifts of competition
againft a man which none hitherto had ventured to approach: they
played all their principal characters againft each other with various
fuccefs...
In this contention they remained till 1758, when Barry joining with
Woodward, undertook an expedition to Ireland, where they built two
elegant playhoufes, one in Crow-ftreet, Dublin, the other in Cork, and,
as joint managers, exerted their refpedtive abilities with thofe of a very
refpedtable company. However, after trying this fcheme for a few
years, what with the expence of building, the great falaries and in-
creafe of performers, and the., uncertain returns of their theatres, they
both found they had changed fituations for the worfe. Woodward firft
difcovered his error, and making the beft bargain he could with Barry,
withdrew- himfelf to England. Barry ftayedbut a few-feafons after him,
and arriving in London in the fummer of 1766, hired the king's theatre
in the Hay-market for a few nights, where he firft introduced to an
Engliih audience Mrs. Dancer, whom he brought from Ireland with
him, and afterwards married.
He went back to Ireland the enfuing winter to fulfil his engagements
there, and returned to London the fummer following, and adted feveral
nights at Foote’s theatre: his great and eftabliihed reputation, .and Mrs.
Dancer’s merit, which every day became more and more confpicuous,
drew crouded audiences in the hotteft days of July and Auguft.
The managers of Drury-lane (who had lately loft Mrs. Cibber and Mr.
Powell)' thought it advifeable to- come to an agreement with Mr. and
Mrs. Barry, and accordingly engaged them at a falary of 1500I. per
annum. This ftipend was accounted the more confiderable, from his
being fo fubjedt to chronical diforders5 however,. when his health
permitted him to exert his powers, he communicated his admirable
feelings to the beft company that London could produce.
In the Grecian daughter they fhone with unrivalled luftre5 the feeble
and affeding part of Evander was well adapted to the venerable figure and
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