Criticisms and Dramatic Essays, of the English StageG. Routledge and Company, 1851 - 324 psl. |
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... give us some distant idea of Garrick's nature , or of Abington's grace ! We are al- ways indignant at Smollett , for having intro- duced a perverse caricature of the English Roscius , which staggers our faith in his fault- less ...
... give us some distant idea of Garrick's nature , or of Abington's grace ! We are al- ways indignant at Smollett , for having intro- duced a perverse caricature of the English Roscius , which staggers our faith in his fault- less ...
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... give as favourable an account as I could : I gave a true one . I am not one of those who , when they see the sun breaking from behind a cloud , stop to ask others whether it is the moon . Mr. Kean's appearance was the first gleam of ...
... give as favourable an account as I could : I gave a true one . I am not one of those who , when they see the sun breaking from behind a cloud , stop to ask others whether it is the moon . Mr. Kean's appearance was the first gleam of ...
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... the player's life . It is the transition from their real to their assumed characters , from the contempt of the world to the applause of the multitude , that gives its zest to the latter , and raises them as much ON ACTORS AND ACTING . 13.
... the player's life . It is the transition from their real to their assumed characters , from the contempt of the world to the applause of the multitude , that gives its zest to the latter , and raises them as much ON ACTORS AND ACTING . 13.
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... give their splendour to a plume of feathers and a throne . We should suppose that if the most admired actor on the London stage were brought to confession on this point , he would ac- knowledge that all the applause he had received from ...
... give their splendour to a plume of feathers and a throne . We should suppose that if the most admired actor on the London stage were brought to confession on this point , he would ac- knowledge that all the applause he had received from ...
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... What an impulse must it give to the blood , what a keenness to the invention , what a volubility to the tongue ! " Mr. Smirk , you are a brisk man , " was then the most significant commendation . But now - a - days- ON MODERN COMEDY . 21.
... What an impulse must it give to the blood , what a keenness to the invention , what a volubility to the tongue ! " Mr. Smirk , you are a brisk man , " was then the most significant commendation . But now - a - days- ON MODERN COMEDY . 21.
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