THE

ALBUM

OF THE

CAMBRIDGE GARRICK CLUB:

CONTAINING

ORIGINAL AND SELECT PAPERS ON THE DRAMA,

AND THE

PROCEEDINGS OF THAT SOCIETY.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

EDITED BY

A MEMBER OF THE CLUB.

Cambridge:

PUBLISHED FOR THE SOCIETY,

BY W. H. SMITH, ROSE CRESCENT.

1836.

"Though varying tastes our changeful Drama claim,

Still be its moral tendency the same:

To win by precept, by example warn,

To brand the front of iVce with pointed scorn,

And Virtue's smiling brows with native wreaths adorn.' REJECTED ADDRESSES.

"Dear are the days which made our annals bright,
Ere GARRICK fled, or BRINSLEY ceased to write;
Heirs to their labours, like all high born heirs,
Vain of our ancestry as they of theirs;

While thus Remembrance borrows Banquo's glass
To claim the sceptred shadows as they pass;

And we the mirror hold, where imaged shine,

Immortal names, emblazon'd on our line,

Pause-ere their feebler offspring you condemn,

Reflect how hard the task to rival them!"LORD BYRON.

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