THE THREE QUARTERS, Etc.
[384]. The new comedy. Ups and Downs, or the Ladder of Life was the title of the piece here noticed by Hazlitt. It was acted eight times. The secretary of the Admiralty, etc. Croker. Cf. ante, p. 344. [385]. A nice distinction in Miss Burney. See her Cecilia. Killing no Murder. A farce by Theodore Hook, produced in 1809. [386]. ‘Like dew-drops,’ etc. Troilus and Cressida, Act III. Sc. 3. ‘Fine by degrees,’ etc. Prior, Henry and Emma, 430. ‘They best can paint them,’ etc. Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 366. Lord Porchester’s tragedy. Don Pedro, King of Castile, by Lord Porchester, afterwards 3rd Earl of Carnarvon (1800–1849) was produced at Drury Lane on March 10, 1828. Lord Morpeth’s. Lord Morpeth, afterwards 7th Earl of Carlisle (1802–1864) published in 1828 The Last of the Greeks; or the Fall of Constantinople, a tragedy in verse.