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US
/ˈɡɛɹɪk/
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NOUN
- English actor and theater manager who was the foremost Shakespearean actor of his day (1717-1779)
How To Use Garrick In A Sentence
- This year his old pupil and friend, David Garrick, having become joint patentee and manager of Drury-lane theatre, Johnson honoured his opening of it with a Prologue, which for just and manly dramatick criticism, on the whole range of the English stage, as well as for poetical excellence, is unrivalled. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
- If you truly believe that Obama should not be president, if you truly believe there is no greater pain than seeing a primary opponent win the general election, then this sacrifice can only be considered a modest price for your convictions. garrick Clinton upbeat on Puerto Rico campaign swing
- Some months later, when another soldier learned that his dad had suicided, it was Garrick who sought him out and gave that soldier the best support.
- Warrington leaned over, as Garrick removed the cap of the pulmotor, and gently raised her head on his arm. Guy Garrick
- This was sent to David Garrick, an influential arbiter of polite literary taste in London.
- A transplanted Hollander, carried thither originally from China, seems to thrive particularly well in this part of the world; the little pug dog, or Dutch mastiff, which our English ladies were once so fond of, that poor Garrick thought it worth his while to ridicule them for it in the famous dramatic satire called Lethe, has quitted London for Padua, I perceive; where he is restored happily to his former honours, and every carriage I meet here has a _pug_ in it. Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I
- Most eagerly sought are the magnificent leervis (pronounced leer fish,) sometimes called the garrick.
- The ordinary authorities affirm that he imitated and rivalled the popular miniaturist and enameller, Christian Zincke, who retired from practice in 1746; and he is loosely described as "the companion of Hogarth, Garrick, Foote, and the wits of the day. De Libris: Prose and Verse
- This man offended many: the Royal Society, by his work, the medical profession, by inventing and selling extra-pharmacopoeian doses; Garrick, by resenting the rejection of a play. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
- Are you a real homosexual or a bi-sexual?"Garrick asked me at the computer classroom in Global Village Organization, our English cram school classroom.