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Garrick is an Old English name that means "one who governs with a spear" or "spear king". It is common as a masculine given name and as a surname. People with the name Garrick include:
Garrick may refer to:
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Garrick (name), for the name's origin and people with either the surname or given name, the most famous being:
- David Garrick (1717-1779), English actor
- Garrick Club, a London gentlemen's club named in honour of David Garrick
- Garrick Theatre (disambiguation), various theatres named after David Garrick
- Garrick Collection, early printed editions of English drama bequeathed by David Garrick to the British Museum
- Garrick F.C., defunct Sheffield based football club
- Garrick or Lichia amia, a fish species
- Flash (Jay Garrick), a DC Comics superhero and the first to use the name Flash
- Garrick, Saskatchewan, Canada, a hamlet
- Garrick's Ait, an ait or island in the River Thames in England
- Garrick Bar, one of the oldest public houses in Belfast, Northern Ireland
- "Garrick", a play by the Catalan mime comedy group Tricicle
Usage examples of "garrick".
Though Garrick was more successful in his Johnsonian recitation of poetry, Boswell won in reproducing his familiar conversation.
But the most important of his friendships developed between him and such men of genius as Boswell, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Edmund Burke.
Garrick, which he had denied to Jones, and fell into so violent a trembling, that his knees knocked against each other.
They would replace Lloyd Garrick, who took some time off from diving shortly after the incident, and Dick Shoe, who remained willing to dive the Doria and other deadly wrecks but vowed never to return to something so dangerous as this submarine.
Gilbert Cooper related, that soon after the publication of his Dictionary, Garrick being asked by Johnson what people said of it, told him, that among other animadversions, it was objected that he cited authorities which were beneath the dignity of such a work, and mentioned Richardson.
They took long walks in the woods, often at daybreak when Garrick checked the few traps he d set for coyotes, and picnicked in groves surrounded by the sweet smell of spring s rebirth.
Garrick declare, that it was written by Dr. Johnson, and give the following account of the manner in which it was composed.
A violent dispute having ensued between them, Garrick applied to the Reverend Dr. Taylor to interpose.
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.
Once in the bathroom, she showered and dressed, then returned to the main room, where Garrick was adding the last of the pancakes to high stacks on each of two plates.
I presumed to animadvert on his eulogy on Garrick, in his Lives of the Poets.
The crossword from which took the most pleasure, though, was the one that cled the life and times of Leah and Garrick.
As Garrick, whom I regard in tragedy to be the greatest genius the world hath ever produced, sometimes condescends to play the fool.
Garrick, the celebrated actor who was buried twenty years later in Westminster Abbey, came forward and tried in vain to restore order.
Betteredge said, when the anthropometrist had moved upstairs, "if you feel I was responsible, sir… For losing her, I mean—" "I believe, Betteredge, that I dispatched you earlier to a matinee, at the Garrick, to report on the acrobatic ladies of Manhattan, did I not?