...all a storehouse of memories for the most perishable of the arts. ' Pity,' he cries in his Apology, it is that the momentary beauties flowing from an...! That the animated graces of the player can live 110 longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them, or at best can but faintly glimmer...

...Gibber on Betterton : — " Pity it is that the charms of acting cannot, like those of painting or poetry, be their own record ; that the animated graces...live no longer than the instant breath and motion which paint them, or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory of a few surviving spectators...

...short, and say, " Pity it is that the momentaiy " beauties flowing from an harmonious elo" cution, cannot, like those of poetry, be their " own record;...graces of " the player can live no longer than the in" stant breath and motion that presents them, " or, at best, can but faintly glimmer through " the...

...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 hosv Betterton spoke be as easily known...

...when he remarked that dramatic success, which can be so overwhelming, should also be so ephemeral: 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.i9 The split that Cibber supposed between an...

...when he remarked that dramatic success, which can be so overwhelming, should also be so ephemeral: Pity it is, that the momentary Beauties flowing from...Breath and Motion that presents them; or at best can hut faintly glimmer through the Memory, or imperfect Attestation of a few surviving Spectators." The...

...explains his scant account of stage interpretation by remembering Gibber remembering Betterton: Pity it is that . . . the animated Graces of the Player can live...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...

...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...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...

...Gibber has a beautiful expression of regret concerning the transitory character of the Thespians Fame. "Pity it is, that the momentary beauties flowing from...motion that presents them ; or, at best, .can but imperfectly glimmer through the memory, or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators." "The...

...save— The art and artist share one common grave." Gibber, in his " Apology," laments mellifluously, " that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious...their own record ; that the animated graces of the actor can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them ; or, at least, can...