[9.] The Sporting Magazine for one.
[10.] He might have added gouging, as practised in the southern States of this Union.
[11.] In the melo-drama of Tekeli, that heroic prince is clapt into a barrel on the stage: a new asylum for distressed heroes!
[12.] All these are favourite expressions of Mr. R. and prominent in his comedies, living and defunct.
[13.] Mr. T. Sheridan, the new manager of Drury Lane Theatre, stripped the tragedy of Bonduca of the Dialogue, and exhibited the scenes as the spectacle of Caractacus. Was this worthy of his sire, or of himself?
Oh, wonder-working Lewis! monk, or bard,
Who fain would make Parnassus a church-yard!
Lo! wreaths of yew, not laurel, bind thy brow,
Thy Muse a sprite, Apollo’s sexton thou!