 | 1838 - 1056 Seiten
...graces of BIOGRAPHY. — Vol.. Ithe player can live no longer than the instant that breath and motion present them, or at best can but Faintly glimmer through...imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators. Could Betterton spoke be as easily known as what he spoke, then might you see the Muse of Shakspeare... | |
 | 1854 - 694 Seiten
...elocution cannot, like those of poetry, be their own record ; that the animated graces of an 'orator 'can live no longer than the instant breath and motion...at best, can but faintly glimmer through the memory of a few surviving spectators." The literary excellence of Burke's " Speeches" make them exceptions... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 400 Seiten
...momentary beauties from an harmonious elocution cannot, like those of poetry, be their own record ! that the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them ; or at best cm but faintly glimmer through the memory or imperfect attestation of a... | |
 | 1869 - 796 Seiten
...Shakespeare, which are in themselves almost a chronicle of the traditional stage readings of a century ? the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them, or at best glimmer fairftly through the memory of a few surviving spectators. Could... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - 686 Seiten
...beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot, like those of poetry, be their own record ; that the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them ; or at best can faintly glimmer through the memory or imperfect attestation of a few... | |
 | 1864 - 516 Seiten
...Hebrides (August 15, 1773). t Forster's Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, book iii. ch. ii. sents them ; or at best can but faintly glimmer through...imperfect attestation, of a few surviving spectators. Could how Betterton spoke be as easily known as what he spoke, then might you see the muse of Shakspeare... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1864 - 516 Seiten
...beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot, like those of poetry, be their own record ; that the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that pre* Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (August 15, 1773). •j- Forster's Life and Times of Oliver... | |
 | 1864 - 520 Seiten
...beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot, like those of poetry, be their own record ; that the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that pre* Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (August 15, 1773). t Forster's Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith,... | |
 | 1865 - 558 Seiten
...flowing from an harmonious elocution cannot, like the graces of poetry, be their own record ; that the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath or motion can present them, or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory of a few surviving... | |
 | 1865 - 556 Seiten
...record ; that the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath or motion can present them, or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory of a few surviving a fierceness quite beyond his usual manner. It is amusing to note how seriously... | |
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Pity it is, that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot like those of poetry be their own record! That the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them; or at best... 
