It was not in the house only of Mrs. Cibber that he met this impressive and piety-inspiring painter of Nature, alike in her rural beauties and her elemental sublimities: the young musician had the advantage of setting to music a part of the mask of Alfred,[4] which brought him into close contact with the author,
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and rivetted good will on one side by high admiration5 on the other.
With various persons, renowned6 or interesting, of the same set, who were gaily7 basking8, at this period, in the smiles of popular sunshine, the subject of these memoirs9 daily mixed; but, unfortunately, not a memorandum10 of their intercourse11 has he left, beyond their names.
Mrs. Cibber herself he considered as a pattern of perfection in the tragic12 art, from her magnetizing powers of harrowing and winning at once every feeling of the mind, by the eloquent13 sensibility with which she portrayed14, or, rather, personified, Tenderness, Grief, Horror, or Distraction15.

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