 ... of his feelings, delivered in the most affecting tones of voice, and with gestures that belong only to nature. It was a fiction as delightful as fancy, and as touching as truth. A few nights before I saw him in " Abel Drugger," and had I not seen...  Eighteenth Century Vignettes: Third Series - עמוד 19מאת Austin Dobson - 1896 - 361 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | 1834 - 692 דפים
...gestures that belong only to nature. It was a fiction as delightful as fancy, and as touching as truth. A few nights before, I saw him in "Abel Drugger ;"...played " Hamlet" and " Drugger" with such excellence.' vol. i. pp. 57, 59. In a subsequent letter, she thus speaks of her friend:-^ ' I cap never cease to... | |
 | 1834 - 324 דפים
...gestures that belong only to nature. It was a fiction as delightful as fancy, and as touching as truth. A few nights before I saw him in ' Abel Drugger ;'...played ' Hamlet' and ' Drugger' with such excellence. • • * The following tribute to Sir Joshua Reynolds must be our last extract : " Would you believe... | |
 | William Roberts - 1835 - 496 דפים
...touching as truth. A few nights before I saw him in " Abel Drugger;" and had I not seen him in both, 1 should have thought it as possible for Milton to have...played " Hamlet" and " Drugger'' with such excellence. I found myself, not only in the best place, but with the best company in the house, for I sat next... | |
 | William Roberts - 1835 - 512 דפים
...Drugger ; and, had I not seen him in both, I should have thought that it would have been as impossible for Milton to have written ' Hudibras,' and Butler ' Paradise Lost,' as for the same man to have played Hamlet and Drugger with such superlative and finished excellence. The more... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 548 דפים
...gestures that belong only to nature. It was a fiction as delightful as fancy, and as touching as truth. A few nights before I saw him in " Abel Drugger,"...Lost," as for one man to have played "Hamlet" and "Drngger" with such excellence. I found myself not only in the best place, but with the best company... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 540 דפים
...Drugger," and had I not seen him in both, I should have thought it as possible for Milton to have written u Hudibras," and Butler " Paradise Lost," as for one...played "Hamlet"' and "Drugger" with such excellence. I found myself not only in the best place, but with the best company in the house, for I sat next the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 506 דפים
...gestures that belong only to nature. It was a fiction as delightful as fancy, and as touching as truth. A few nights before I saw him in ' Abel Drugger;'...played ' Hamlet' and ' Drugger' with such excellence." Although Hannah More, at this period of her life, gave the fullest countenance to dramatic entertainments,... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1876 - 538 דפים
...should have thought it as possible for Milton to have written " Hudibras" and Butler " Paradise Last," as for one man to have played " Hamlet" and " Drugger" with such excellence. — Ifannah More. The greatest creature living in every respect. — Gainsborough. Horace Walpole.... | |
 | Henry Barton Baker - 1878 - 434 דפים
...gestures that belong only to nature. It was a fiction as delightful as fancy, and as touching as truth. A few nights before, I saw him in ' Abel Drugger,'...have played Hamlet and Drugger with such excellence." This reference to Jonson's celebrated character will serve to introduce a very opposite picture of... | |
 | Henry Barton Baker - 1879 - 342 דפים
...gestures that belong only to nature. It was a fiction as delightful as fancy, and as touching as truth. A few nights before, I saw him in Abel Drugger, and...Butler ' Paradise Lost,' as for one man to have played H imlet and Drugger with such excellence." This reference to Jonson's celebrated character will serve... | |
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