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some inmates of a lodginghouse at Philadelphia , among whom were Lady Susan O'Brien and her husband : — " Another , " says the writer , " wasf Lady Susan O'Brien , not more distinguished by her
title , than by her husband who accompanied her , and had figured as a comedian on the London stage , in the time of Garrick , Mossop , and Barry . Although Churchill charges him with being an imitator of Woodward , he yet admits him
to be a man of parts ; and he has teen said to have ' s urpassed all Ms contemporaries in the character of the fine gentleman ; in his easy manner of treading the stage ; and particularly of drawing his sword , to which action he communicated a swiftness and a grace which Garrick
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imitated but could not equal . O'Brien is presented to my recollection as a man of the middle height , with a symmetrical form , rather light than athletic .
Employed by the father to instruct Lady Susan in elocution , he taught her , it seems , that it was no sin to love ; for she became his wife , and , as I have seen it mentioned in the *
Theatrical Mirror , ' obtained for him , through the interest of her family , a post in America . But what this post was , or where it located him , I never heard . " It thus appears that Lady Susan had at least love enough for her husband to accompany him to the other side of the
globe ; nor from Churchill ' s account of O'Brien would it seem that he was unworthy of it : —
In Jonson ' s Stephen , which way genius grows , Self quite put off , affects , with too much art , To put on Woodward in each mingled part ; Adopts his shrug , his wink , his stare ; nay , more , His voice , and croaks ; for Woodward croak'd before When a dull copier simple grace neglects , And rests his imitation in defects , We readily forgive ; tyut such vile arts Are double guilt in men of real parts /'~ i ? 0 M ! iW .
" Shadows behind of Foote and Woodward came ; Wilkinson this , O'Brien was that name : Strange to relate , but wonderfully true , That even shadows have their shadows too . With not a single comic power endued , The first a mere mere mimic ' s mimic stood ; The last , by nature form d to please , who shows
O'Brien is here not only nature formed to please ; " which styled a man of parts , but is seems to imply that he was both said to have shown " genius" well-looking and agreeable , in one of the characters of Ben And his very propensity , under Jonson , and to have been " by these circumstances , to imitate < Mqoioira of a Life , ' &c , p . 56 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 170, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/26/
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