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    Look closer to t : you make the evil first ; A base , then pile a heap of ceusures on it . 'Tis your own si a supplies the scaffolding And masOD work : you , skilful , rear the grim . Unsightly fabric ; and there point , and say ' How ugly is it . ' You meanwhile forget 'Tis your own handy work . 1 could say more ; But there's a check within : 'tis such an one , As you , I trow , have banished from its birth-place . Old Pi , ay , ( yery scarce , marked in Me Catalogue , RRRR : which signifieih rariuinxtu ?) € , Pylades , what ' s life without a friend ? ' Shall I ever forget these words , or the clear , ringing voice- ^ a voice , which in its character was neither trumpet nor bell , but a compound of both , mellowing into each other—which first conveyed these words to my ear ? No ; and less probable is it that I shall lose the power of re-creatipg every circumstance , form and colour , order an 4

    arrangement , of the occasion on which I heard them . I am sure it is less desirable ; when this light of eye fades , and this vigour of imagination and reflection falters , may I— —fiat voluntas tua ! How came I , for the first time , how came I ever to ' go to a play ? ' There were about me those who would have deemed \ was rushing headlong into the gate ' opposite to St . Peter ' s / if I

    entered the doors of a theatre . Yet 1 did go . All the world was wide staring at a wonder ; all the world professed to see miraculous genius in a boy : there were , indeed , a few exceptions , a few questioners , but they were scouted as morose or envious ; an 4 the gaping curiosity of the world dilated my eyes with desiring astonishment . I could and did wish , but dared not hope for , the

    gratification : and with what a heartfull of swelling delight and impatience , and impulsive thankfulness , did I receive my uncle ' s permission , unsolicited , garnished by a gallery ticket , to go ant ) see the ' young Roscius . ' I lost not a minute ere I carried the joyful intelligence to my father ; who , let the truth be spoken , entertained notions of a different complexion on this opposite to St . Peter ' s mischief : he was almost as joyous as I was , in the

    anticipation of the impression and pleasure I should receive , anc | added a shilling for fruit between , the acts ; and , Well , you'll come and tell me all about it next Sunday . ' The UpterveifcWfl ' twenty-four hours were the most wearisome and sense gnawing X ever knew . I rolled from side to side , shifting my position every * five minutes during the unslept night ; and all next day the finger ^ of the clock were the laziest pieces of machinery that ever wer $ , iuveut , ed : tlxe sun was atupified , he w * m * a lqgjgard ; aadj seemed '

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    AUTOBIOGBAPHY OF PEL . VERJUICE . CHAPTER | II . MY FIRST PLAY .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1833, page 475, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2618/page/35/