 | American essays - 1869 - 806 pages
...solid philosophers, . or the descriptions of the most charming poets While I walked in the cloisters, I thought of him with the same concern as if I waited...real life, done all that I had seen him represent." Most eminent actors of those days aspired to be, like Shakespeare, authors as well. Betterton's original... | |
 | 1754 - 394 pages
...waited for the remains of a perfon, who had, in real life, done all that I had feen him reprefent. The gloom of the place, and faint lights before the ceremony appeared, contributed to the melancholy difpofition I was in ; and I began to be extremely afflicted, that Brutus and Cafóos had any difference... | |
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... had been unnatural, nay, impossible, in Othello's circumstances. The charming passage in the same tragedy, where he tells the manner of winning the affection of his mistress, was urged with so moving and graceful an energy, that, while I walked in... 
