Note 21 — THE DRURIAD, &c.
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We are astonished to see this man figuring away in such characters as the Baron of Oakland, Mr. Hardy, and Sir Francis Wronghead.—When will managers learn their duty to the public? and when distinguish between unaffected humour and unnatural buffoonery?—To Hollingsworth we may apply the lines of Peter Pindar:
“Of acting I have seen enough, “Most vile, most execrable, stuff; “But none so bad as thine, I vow to God!”