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IC.779.039
23 Dec 1779:11,12,13 (12/591)
Mr. Willis, For the entertainment of the readers of your
useful Chronicle, I send you the Monody composed by Mr.
Sheridan, on the death of the celebrated Garrick. . . [5
lines]
We Americans have not quarrel with the arts and sciences;
we honour, we cherish them. We only lament that a nation in
which they have so long flourished, a nation from whose eyes
Garrick has so often drawn a flood of tears by his mimick
woe, should have carried on the war against America in so
relentless and barbarous a manner. Many individuals among
them, it is true, have blush'd and wept at these cruelties;
they have nevertheless brought an indelible stain upon their
national character. As a nation, their polish resembles
that of steel and marble; it is splendid, without softening
the body upon which it is superinduced. But no longer to
detain your readers from their entertainment.
I am your's, [signed] Philomusis
VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF GARRICK, spoken as a Monody, by Mrs.
Yates, at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane.
. . . [8 lines, Monody dedicated to Countess Spencer, by
Richard Brinsley Sheridan. dated: March 25th, 1779.]
If dying Excellence deserves a tear,
If fond remembrance still is cherished here,
Can we persist to bid your sorrows flow
For fabled suffe'rers and delusive woe?
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