Excerpt from The Life of David Garrick: From Original Family Papers, and Numerous Published and Unpublished Sources It has been often said, that great as was David Garrick's fame as an actor, the story of his career as an English gentleman, in private life, would be no less remarkable. The result of a careful examination of his eventful life will be found, I trust, to establish this view in the most extraordinary degree, bringing out the portrait of a singularly noble, generous, and well-trained mind, with a complete reversal of the popular judgment, which supposed that "little Davy" was knowing, shrewd, avaricious, and self-interested. The kindly reader, who will follow me through this narrative, will, I think, be induced to accept this view to a degree for which he was scarcely prepared, and to own that, to use the words of the strange Percival Stockdale, the actor was "as great in Garrick, as in Lear" Apart from these two points of view, a third interest will arise, in the simple study of human character under conditions rarely to be met with - under conditions, too, of the most curious sort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.