 | Colley Cibber - 1742 - 242 էջ
...know; but with what higher Rapture-would .lie ftill'.be readj could they conceive how Bettertort play'd him ! Then might they know, the one was born alone...harmonious Elocution, cannot like thofe of Poetry, he their own Record i That the animated Graces of the Player can live no longer than the inftant Breath... | |
 | 1761 - 474 էջ
...(hould be attempted for his life, p. 74, 75, So;. at the' other. All the capital plays 3 "him! _ " him ! Then might they know the one was born alone...elocution, cannot, like thofe of poetry, be their own re" cord ! That the animated graces of the player can live ** them, or at beft can but faintly glimmer... | |
 | Benjamin Victor - 1761 - 230 էջ
...but the deceafed Actor is lefs happy, his Works die with him. My Friend Cibber, in Page 83, fays, " Pity it is, that the momentary Beauties, " flowing...** own Record ; that the animated. Graces " of the Actor can live no longer than the "•• Inftant Breath and Motion that prefents " them ; or at lead... | |
 | 1762 - 736 էջ
...Ectterton played his characters! Then they would have known the one was horn to fpcak, what rhe oiher only knew to write. Pity it is, that the momentary...flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot, like thofc of poetry, be their own record! That the animated graces of the player can live no longcrthanthe... | |
 | David Irving - 1801 - 160 էջ
...into the compofition of an accomplifhed a&or, are of po vulgar kind. " Pity it is (exclaims Gibber) that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious...elocution, cannot, like thofe of poetry, be their own reward ! that the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the inftant breath and motion... | |
 | Arthur Murphy - 1801 - 544 էջ
...portrait of Betterton, he finds Hmfelf unequal to the tafk. He is obliged to ftop fhort, and fay, " Pity it is that the momentary *' beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution, * e cannot, like thofe of poetry, be their own re'* cord ; that the animated graces of .the player... | |
 | 1802 - 558 էջ
...into the compolition of an accomplirtied aflor, are of no vulgar kind. " Pity it is (exclaims Cibber) that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious...elocution, cannot, like thofe of poetry, be their own reward ! that the animated graces of the »layer can live no longer than the in»ant breath and motion... | |
 | Gilbert Austin - 1806 - 684 էջ
...they conceive how " Betterton played him ! then might they know, the one was " born alone to speak, what the other only, knew to write ! " pity it is, that the momentary beauties flowing from an har" monious elocution, cannot like those of poetry, be their own " record ! that the animated graces... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 540 էջ
...could they conceive how Betterton played him! Then might they know the one was born alone to speak what the other only knew to write! Pity it is that...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 tnan... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 540 էջ
...could they conceive how Bettt-rton played him! Then might they know the one was born alone to speak what the other only knew to write! Pity it is that...beauties, flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot, likte those of poetry, be their own recorJ!—^that the animated graces of the player can live no longer... | |
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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... 
