The Gamester’s Downfall Fears Despair and Death
A dramatic portrait of a ruined debtor once bright with charm now hunted by poverty and creditors. The poem traces his fall from independence and pleasure to exile on a couch of thorns, madness, and a grave unwept by kin or lover. He sinks into ruin as fortune, health, and reputation fade.
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Mis
Tobey
Georgetown
Indian Town
Nathaniel Snow
Pee Dee
Benjamin Screven
Garrick's Lear Through Murphy's Life of the Actor
The text portrays Garrick's portrayal of Lear as marked by slow feebleness and deep misery. It recounts his calm, deliberate gestures and fixed gaze while feuding with his sense of sorrow. It recalls a friend in Goodman’s Fields whose child fell to a fatal accident, shaping Garrick’s observations of tragedy.
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Murphy
Lear
Garrick
Leman‘street
Goodman’s Fields
Dr. Mongo
Garrick's Lear Mimicry and Early Stage Triumphs
The passage recalls David Garrick acting scenes of misery and madness that inspired his King Lear performance. It notes his charged portrayal of a bereaved father and his later transition from tragedy to comedy in Abel Drugger, with Hogarth praising his dirt-streaked appearance in Richard J, while remarking on his element when begrimed in blood.
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Garrick
King Lear
Adel Drugger
Hogarth
Richard J J
Abel Drugger
Trade goods list from Levi Salomon August &.
A verbose catalog item lists Jamaica rum Northward French brandy Holland gin Madeira wine Malagado cherry molasses vinegar sugar coffee almonds raisins tea barley oil crackers candles mustard soap Segars gun powder pepper spice nutmegs cloves prunes cheese porter limes and Ornaments as sold by Levi Salomon in August.
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West India
Charleston
Beit Northward
London
Levi Salomon
Crosby & Murray
Havarina
Durham
Morocco
Concentrated Tincture of Yellow Bark Offered by Marshall
Francis Marshall announces arrival of a new supply of concentrated tincture of yellow bark on August 15. The notice lists the product for sale under his name.
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Francis Marshall
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the Gamester
Lefson
Garrick’s. Lear
Sheriff’s Sales
James Carson
John Burd
Benjamin L. Ferrer
Taylor
M.farlane
J. B. Mason
James S. Dick
Josias
Allston
Pee Dee River
Dorothy Singelston
Angutts
Agnes Kirkpatrick
Washington and
Jefferson
Wahington
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