Dictionary of national biography Volume 18 Sir Leslie Stephen

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...uneducated and ignorant of her father"s fame, in 1764. Leigh Hunt says, it does not appear on what authority, that she was a" maidservant." Edmund Chaloner, to whom Farquhar dedicated his "Miscellanies," is said to have procured a pension of 201. for the daughters. A poem called "Barcelona," upon Lord Peterborough"s capture of the town, is mentioned in the "Biographia Britanniea," and the dedication by" Margaret Farquhar," the widow, is quoted. There is no copy in the British Museum. Farquhar describes himself in the-Miscellanies," insisting chiefly upon his easygoing and diffident temperament, and asserting that he is habitually melancholy, " very splenetic, and yet very amorous." Such sellportraiture is not very trustworthy. As he appears in his work he is the most attractive, as he is the last, of the school generally associated with Congreve: full of real gaiety, and a gentleman in spite of recklessness and an affectation of the fashionable tone of morals. Without the keen wit or the sardonic force of his rivals, he has more genuine high spirits and good nature. The military scenes in the " Recruiting Officer" are all interesting sketches from life. His comedies are: 1. "Love and a Bottle," 1699. 2. "A Constant Couple," end of 1699. 3. "Sir Harry Wildair," 1701 (published in May 1701). 4. "The Inconstant, or the Way to win him," 1702. 5. "The Twin Rivals," 17 Dec. 1702. 6. "The Stage Coach," farce in one act (with Motteux), 2 Feb. 1704. 7. "The Recruiting Officer," 8 April 1706. 8. "The Beaux" Stratagem," 8 March 1707. Vague and unsatisfactory lives of Farquhnr were prefixed to editions of his works in 1728, 1742, and 1772; a more satisfactory life by Thomas Wilkes (a relation of the actor, see Garrick"s Corp. ii. 171-2) to the Dublin edition of 1775; s... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Dictionary of national biography Volume 18 (Sir Leslie Stephen)