 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1899 - 1172 pages
...eulogies upon Mr. Betterton, we may refer to those of Colley Cibber, Anthony Aston, and Addlson. " Such an actor as Mr. Betterton ought to be recorded with the aame respect as Rosrlus among the Romans. ... I have hardly a av^tkm that any performance of antiquity... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1902 - 386 pages
...action is to be esteeined as such, except it be objected that we cannot call that an art which cannot be attained by art. Voice, stature, motion, and other...will but push the unhappy endeavourer in that way the farther off his wishes. Such an actor as Mr. Betterton ought to be recorded with the same respect as... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - Actors - 1904 - 652 pages
...wanted something to be equal master of." "Such an actor as Mr. Betterton," wrote Steele in the Tatlfr, "ought to be recorded with the same respect as Roscius among the Romans. I have hardly a notion that any performer of antiquity could surpass the action of Mr. Betterton in... | |
 | Edward Codrington William Grey - Bloomsbury (London, England) - 1905 - 272 pages
...the most solid philosophers or the descriptions of the most charming poets I have ever read. . . . Such an actor as Mr. Betterton ought to be recorded...with the same respect as Roscius among the Romans. ... I have hardly a notion that any performer of antiquity could surpass the action of Mr. Betterton... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1907 - 392 pages
...action is to be esteemed as such, except it be objected that we cannot call that an art which cannot be attained by art. Voice, stature, motion, and other...will but push the unhappy endeavourer in that way the farther off his wishes. Such an actor as Mr. Betterton ought to be recorded with the same respect as... | |
 | Kolachelam Rao S. - 1986 - 342 pages
...marvellous acting. These facts might deserve a philosophical investigation. Addison records this fact. " Such an actor as Mr. Betterton ought to be recorded...with the same respect as Roscius among the Romans. I have hardly a notion that any performer of antiquity could surpass the action ot Mr. Betterton in... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 578 pages
...action is to be esteemed as such, except it be objected, that we cannot call that an art which cannot be attained by art. Voice, stature, motion, and other...nature, or labour and industry will but push the unhappy endeavour in that way, the farther off his wishes. Such an actor as Mr. Betterton ought to be recorded... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1909 - 906 pages
...soentrance the spectator as to almost turn shadow into substance. Addison said of Betterton : such an actor ought to be recorded with the same respect as Roscius among the Romans. Pope said of Garrick : he never had his equal and would never have a rival. Byron said of Kean : he... | |
 | English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...action is to be esteemed as such, except it be objected, that we cannot call that an art which cannot thoughts. farther off his wishes. Such an actor as Mr. Betterton ought to be recorded with the same respect as... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...action is to be esteemed as such, except it be objected, that we cannot call that an art which cannot ity reserved for him.' I gazed with inexpressible...the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds w farther off his wishes. Such an actor as Mr. Betterton ought to be recorded with the same respect as... | |
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... executions ; so men of letters and education feel their humanity most forcibly exercised, when they attend the obsequies of men who had arrived at any perfection in liberal accomplishments. Theatrical action is to be esteemed as such, except it be... 
