Glen Collection of printed music > Printed text > Companion to the play-house, or, An historical account of all the dramatic writers (and their works) that have appeared in Great Britain and Ireland, from the commencement of our theatrical exhibitions, down to the present year 1764 > Volume 2

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He taught us hoiv to live ; and,
Oh ! too high
A Price for Knonuledge, taugl t
tis hotu to dte.
thus proceeds Dr. Toung ; '' had
** not this poor Plank been thrown
** out, the chief Article of his
*^ Glory would probably have
** been funk for ever, and late
*' Ages had received but a Frag-
*' ment of his Fame. — A Frag-
" ment glorious indeed, for his
*' Genius how bright ! but to
*' commend him for Compofition,
** tho' immortal, is Detraction
** tioiv, if there our Encomium
" ends. — Let us look farther to
"' that concluding Scene, which
*« fpoke human Nature not unre-
•^ lated to the Divine. — To that
' let us pay the Jong and large
" Arrcar of our gieatly poflhu-
*' m.ous Applrtufe."
A httle farther he thus termi-
nates this noble Encomium.
" it Powers were notwantirg, a
*■' Monument more durable than
'^ thofe of Marble, Hiould proudly
": rife in this ambitious Page to
*' the new and far nobler /Jddifbn,
*•' than that which you and the
'' Pi.blic have fo long and fo
*•' much admired : — n«r this Na-
'*" tion only, for It is Europ£''i
'* yLidijon as well as oms 5 tho'
*• Europe knows not half his Ti
" ties to her Efteem, being as
" yet nnconfcious that the dying
*' Addifnri far outftirjes her ^"id-
*' difor. imm.ortal."
Flaving thus given feme Ac-
count of the Life and Death of
thi^ great Man, nothing more re-
mains in this Place to be done,
but to give a Lift of his dramatic
Pieces, which were the follow-
ing three.
J. Cato. Trag.
2. 7"he Drurr.mcr, Ccm,
3. Roe A M ON D, Opera,
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Alexander, William, VI4,
Sterling, Earl of.
Arm IN, Mr. Robert.-^ — This
Author lived in the Reign of
King James the firft, and was an
eminent Comedian of that Time,
as we may gather from the find-
ing his Name among the Reft of
the Performers of Rank in the
original Drama of Ben Jonftffi's
^Ickyn-dji, 1 6 10. — I have in an-
other Place ventur'd a Surmife in
Regard to his having been the
Author of one dramatic Piece,
from the Correfpondence of the
prefixed Initials, {Vid. above, A,
R.) we are however affur'd in
Regard to another, to which he
lias put his Name at Length,
i>iK^
The TVi-o Maids cf Mo ORE
Clacice. Fliftorlcal Play.
And it is very probable that he
I'clonged to the then Company of
Comedians, as in the Title Page
he v*Tites him fe^f One of his Ma-
ji-'fy's Sci-Tants. — There was pub-
lilhed in the Year 1604, a Pam-
phlet entitled,
A Difccurfe c/ Ehzabvth Ar-
min, ii'ho, \i-itb jcnii other. Com-
plices, aUewptcd to poiJo7i her liuf-
band.
Whether this Arecdote has
any Reference to oui Author I
cannot pretend to afiirm, but
think it by no Means improba-
ble, from the Correfpondence of
the Date with the Time that he
flouri/hed in.
A ?. N !•: . Dr. rhoiras Augufire.
— The Particulars of this Gen-
tleman's Life having prcbahly had
nothing extraordin;iiy in them,
have no Claim to a Place here,
cfpecially as he is ftill living,
and it may perhaps appear as a
Bufinefs of unneccfTary Repeti-
tion to obferve to the Public what
aimoft every individual of it well
knov.s al ea^y, --./k. that he is
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