 | 1887 - 124 páginas
...thee there. " His words bore sterling weight, nervous and strong, In manly tides of sense they roll'd along ; Happy in art, he chiefly had pretence To keep...actor ever greater heights could reach, In all the labonr'd artifice of speech. " Speech ! Is that all ? And shall an actor found An universal fame on... | |
 | Charles Churchill - 1891 - 128 páginas
...thee there. His words bore sterling weight, nervous and strong In manly tides of sense they roll'd along. Happy in art, he chiefly had pretence To keep...labour'd artifice of speech. Speech ! Is that all ? — And shall an actor found An universal fame on partial ground ? Parrots themselves speak properly... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1905 - 502 páginas
...chair his own. His words were sterling weight, nervous and strong, In manly tides of sense they rolled along. Happy in art, he chiefly had pretence To keep...actor ever greater heights could reach In all the laboured artifice of speech. His eyes, in gloomy sockets taught to roll, Proclaimed the sullen habit... | |
 | Henry Brodribb Irving - 1906 - 272 páginas
...Churchill in The Rosciad, in enumerating the rivals of Garrick. He pays Quin the compliment of saying : No actor ever greater heights could reach In all the labour'd artifice of speech. But he qualifies his praise : His eyes in gloomy socket taught to roll, Proclaim'd the sullen habit... | |
 | Henry Brodribb Irving - 1907 - 244 páginas
...Churchill in The Rosciad, in enumerating the rivals of Garrick. He pays Quin the compliment of saying : No actor ever greater heights could reach In all the labour'd artifice of speech. But he qualifies his praise : His eyes in gloomy socket taught to roll, Proclaim'd the sullen habit... | |
 | Peter Thomson - 2006 - 259 páginas
...(1732-64) was recording the general memory when he wrote (in 1761, ten years after Quin's retirement) that 'No actor ever greater heights could reach / In all the labour'd artifice of speech' ( The Rosciad, 11.949-50). By contrast, connoisseurs of the voice found fault with Garrick. Laurence... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1876 - 586 páginas
...own. ***** His words bore sterling weight; nervous and strong. In manly tides of sense they roll'd along: Happy in art, he chiefly had pretence To keep...labour'd artifice of speech. Speech ! is that all ? — and shall an actor found An universal fame on partial ground? Parrots themselves speak properly... | |
 | 1869 - 762 páginas
...Booth. . . . His -words bore sterling weight, nervous and strong, In manly tides of sense they roll'd along. Happy in art, he chiefly had pretence To keep...forfeit sense. No actor ever greater heights could re.'ich In all the laboured artifice of speach." And Chetwood says he was the chief pillar that supported... | |
 | 1792 - 656 páginas
...thee there. " Hi* words bore fterling weight, nervous and ftrong, In manly tides of fenfe they roll'd along : Happy in art, he chiefly had pretence To keep up numbers, yet not forfeit fenfe. No aftor ever greater heights could reach, In all the labour'd artifice of fpeech. " Speech... | |
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Though we deny imaginary grace, Founded on accidents of time and place ; Yet real worth of ev'ry growth shall bear Due praise, nor must we, Quin, forget thee there. His words bore sterling weight, nervous and strong In manly tides of sense they roll'd... 
