New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, 3. köideThomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth 1821 |
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... actors about him were rarely better , and often worse , than automatons , necessary to the effect of his performance ... acting ; for his close approaches to nature served only to shew the miserable distance of his companions . Now , on ...
... actors about him were rarely better , and often worse , than automatons , necessary to the effect of his performance ... acting ; for his close approaches to nature served only to shew the miserable distance of his companions . Now , on ...
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... actor in a particular part is quite a distinct feeling from the longing after tragedy . The first is scarcely more than curio- sity to ascertain the compass of an individual's voice , the gracefulness of his attitudes , his taste in ...
... actor in a particular part is quite a distinct feeling from the longing after tragedy . The first is scarcely more than curio- sity to ascertain the compass of an individual's voice , the gracefulness of his attitudes , his taste in ...
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... acting of Kemble , more beautiful than those of Wallack , where he held the dagger over the trembling Pizarro - where he sunk before him on his knees and where he seized the child with the one hand , and with the other dashed the swords ...
... acting of Kemble , more beautiful than those of Wallack , where he held the dagger over the trembling Pizarro - where he sunk before him on his knees and where he seized the child with the one hand , and with the other dashed the swords ...
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... acting . Every expression appeared the " flash and outbreak of a fiery mind ; and in every movement and ges- ture might be discerned a choleric spirit fretting and wearing away the " pigmy body . " The fine way in which he dashed into ...
... acting . Every expression appeared the " flash and outbreak of a fiery mind ; and in every movement and ges- ture might be discerned a choleric spirit fretting and wearing away the " pigmy body . " The fine way in which he dashed into ...
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... actor . We shall , at a future op- portunity , enter more particularly into his claims on the public favour . We ... acting of Mr. and Mrs. C. Kemble in Catherine and Petruchio - or to congratulate the OLYMPIC and ADELPHI thea- tres ...
... actor . We shall , at a future op- portunity , enter more particularly into his claims on the public favour . We ... acting of Mr. and Mrs. C. Kemble in Catherine and Petruchio - or to congratulate the OLYMPIC and ADELPHI thea- tres ...
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