| Citation |
PC.771.068
23-30 Sep 1771:1411, 1412 (246)
It is consistently asserted, that a scheme is in agitation,
to provide, at the public expence, proper persons to attend
during the ensuing sessions, to take down, in short-hand,
all the speeches of the most distinguished Maryland Orators,
to be religiously treasured up in a musaeum, . . . [1 column
satiric essay on topic. Near bottom:] It is to be wished
indeed that Mr. Douglass and Mr. Hallam could be prevailed
upon to give due attendance in the lobby, in order to catch
and transfuse the grace, the living action of nature into
their various personations both of the buskin and sock; nor
can either of these gentlemen receive this as an affront to
his talents or profession; for it is indisputably proved by
the very ingenious writer of Cicero's life that the Roman
Roscius was indebted to his intimate friend for his
theatrical glory, inasmuch as the orator never failed to
advise the actor of the precise time that he was either to
harangue in the senate or plead in the forum, who
assiduously attending and exactly copying truth and nature,
both merited and obtained the same applause which had been
before given to his great exemplar. [signed]
Philothetoricus. (Maryland)
|