OF David Garrick, Esq. INTERSPERSED WITH Characters and Anecdotes OF HIS THEATRICAL CONTEMPORARIES. THE WHOLE Forming a HISTORY of the STAGE, WHICH INCLUDES A PERIOD OF THIRTY-SIX YEARS. BY THOMAS DAVIES. Quem populus Romanus meliorem virum quam histrionem esse FROM THE LAST LONDON EDITION. VOL. I. BOSTON : PUBLISHED BY WELLS AND LILLY. ...... 1818. ΤΟ Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. SIR, IN the following sheets I have endeavoured to do justice, as far as my abilities would permit, to the memory of your predecessor in the management of the stage; a man universally acknowledged to have been superiour to all competition in his profession as an actor, and justly esteemed in his private life a shining ornament of society. The propriety of addressing these volumes to you, will not, I believe, |