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formed of the Kembles, the Youngs, Edmund Kean, &c.
they were indeed giants. Young's voice was like musical
thunder, but capable of the most varied and exquisite
modulation. Zanga, in the ''
Revenge," he made his own,
none even of his great contemporaries attempting the
character. If any very elderly playgoer can (with the
writer of these lines) remember the climax of the speech
where Zanga incites Alonzo to the murder of Carlos and
Leonora, concluding with the words, " Thus tread upon
the Greek and Roman glory," the sound must still ring in his
ears. Young talked, even in private, in measured terms,
slowly and ponderously, and with a very slight lisp.
lodged at Burnside's, in Hawkins-street,
He
in the house
now occupied by Mr. Farrelly, saddler ; he slept in the
front drawingroom, and was disturbed one morning at
four o'clock by a tremendously loud knocking
at the
hall-door. Young arose from bed, opened the window,
and appeared in a long white night-cap, and beheld a
" rale ould " Irish donkey and cart, the ragged proprietor
of which still continued the dreadful knocking. Young
called out in his thundering and blank verse style
"
In
the name of G cl, sirrah, what is the meaning of this
unseemly clamour, disturbing sleepers from their natural
rest? Desist, man, desist!" The culprit looked up,
and beholding the tragic face and white night-cap, replied
in a rather guilty tone, but with a lovely brogue, " We're
come to empty out the dust-pit." Young related this
in his dressing-room with great unction. Perhaps the
elderly gentleman above alluded to may remember
Charles Kemble's Charles Surface, or his Mercutio ; also