...last department our accounts of how great actors spoke are so meagre. As GIBBER says of BETTERTON : ' Pity it is that the momentary Beauties flowing from...at best, can but faintly glimmer through the Memory or im' perfect Attestation of a few surviving Spectators. Could how Bet' terton spoke be as easily...

...last department our accounts of how great actors spoke are so meagre. As GIBBER says of BETTERTON: 'Pity it is that the momentary Beauties flowing from...at best, can but faintly glimmer through the Memory or im' perfect Attestation of a few surviving Spectators. Could how Bet' terton spoke be as easily...

...speak what the other only knew how to write. Pity it is that the momentary beauties flowing from a harmonious elocution cannot, like those of poetry,...live no longer than the instant breath and motion presents them, or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory or imperfect attestation of a...

...comedy actresses of the period. Colley Gibber lamented that the animated graces of the player could live no longer than " the instant breath and motion that presents them ": when the curtain falls and the play is played, all " the youth, the grace, the charm, the glow "...

...only on the sand. Indeed, I share Colley Oibber's regret that " the momentary beauties flowing from harmonious elocution cannot, like those of poetry,...through the memory of a few surviving spectators." Equally eminent and more modern writers have used their pens in the admission that the death of an...

...set down long ago by that famous actor, critic, dramatist, and annalist of the stage, Colley Cibber: Pity it is that the momentary beauties flowing from...of the player can live no longer than the instant breadth and motion that presents them; or, at best, can but imperfectly glimmer through the memory...

...play'd 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...at best can but faintly glimmer through the Memory or imperfect Attestation of a few surviving Spectators. Could how Betterton spoke be as easily known...

...by the kind auspices under which I had the good fortune to practise it." IX THE STAGE n " Pity it is that the animated graces of the player can live no...through the memory of a few surviving spectators." I WILL now write of the man who was for many years the chief of the English stage, Henry Irving. He...

...the eye, While England lives, his fame can never die ; But he, who slruts his hour upon the slage, Can scarce protract his fame through half an age ;...through the Memory of a few surviving Spectators." This "chief thought" is, indeed, no more than a great commonplace of the theatre. It had been uttered...

...; Nor pen nor pencil can the actor save ; The art and artist have one common grave. Colley Cibber, too, in his portrait (if I remember right) of Betterton,...through the Memory of a few surviving Spectators." This "chief thought" is, indeed, no more than a great commonplace of the theatre. It had been uttered...