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    "ocrText": "which his name is spoken every where throughout\nthis country, are abundant and sufficient evidence\nthat his conduct of the artist.life, since then, has been\nno less prudent and right than kindly, modest, gen-\ntle and sincere. It is not caprice which shapes\nsuch a career as that of Mr. Jefferson, nor is it acci-\ndent that crowned it with the laurels of honor.\nA COMEDY WELL ADAPTED FOR HIS TALENT.\nThe same sagacity that has guided the comedian\nhitherto is eminently shown in the choice he has\nnow made of a piece and a character to contrast\nwith Rip Van Winkle. Of all the old comedies, \"The\nRivals\" is obviously the best that this actor could\nhave selected, with a view-most essential to be\ntaken :-of making his particular part in the per-\nformance the apex of the entertainment. The piece\nis one that has not become antiquated in time. Its\npicture of life and manners is as modern and as vital\nas it is clear, richly-colored, humorous and brilliant.\nThe spirit of it, moreover, is human, kindly and\npure. There is no taint of indelicacy in the plot-\nno streak of serious and painful dicentiousness, such\nas smirches the mirror of its great companion piece,\nThe School for Scandal \"-and in the style\nthere is nothing of the superabundance of brittle\nwit which imparts to the most of Sheridan's writ-\nings such a tiresome glitter of artifice. The play is\nfresh, genial, human, simple and droll; it has in-\nterest of story, a breezy movement, and substantial,\nwell-contrasted characters and its theme, inci-\ndents and atmosphere are precisely suited to Mr. Jef-\nferson's quality of humor and to his nimble and sub-\ntile artistic method. He thus obtains a means of\nexpression by which he can seize and hold the\nkindly sympathy of the spectator-unconsciously\nand therefore the more sweetly given-all the while\nthat he is scattering over him the flowers of mirth,\nand waking in his heart the echoes of happy laugh-\nter. It would be hard to find, in all English litera-"
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