 | English periodicals - 1870 - 792 pages
...live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them ; or, at least, can but faintly glimmer through the memory, or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators." And Hazlitt, himself, notwithstanding his dictum on the subject above set forth, has placed on record... | |
 | Actors - 1766 - 128 pages
...formed for the mntual assistance and illustration of each others' genius; that when he spoke you might see the muse of Shakespeare in her triumph, with all her beauties in her best array, rising into real life and charming her beholders.* It would be impertinent in a modern... | |
 | Thomas Gilliland - Drama - 1804 - 160 pages
...live no longer than the instant the breath and motion that presents them; or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory, or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators." Biron in the Fatal Marriage, is a Dramatic portrait which has not been drawn with those great and striking... | |
 | William Cook - Actors - 1804 - 468 pages
...can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that present them, or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory, or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators;"* and as those few who remember this incomparable actor in the meridian of his powers, must be hastening... | |
 | Gilbert Austin - Gesture - 1806 - 684 pages
...live no " longer, than the instant breath and motion that presents them ; " or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory, or " imperfect attestation...as what he spoke; " then might you see the muse of Shakespear in her triumph, ** Combien il seroit i desirer qu'il cxistat un dep&t ou seroient consignes... | |
 | 1811 - 530 pages
...live no longer than the instant breath and motion. that presents them; or at best, can but faintly glimmer through the memory or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators." Mr. Kemble's performance of Orestes, in the tragedy of the Distrest Mother, possesses a sublimity of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 540 pages
...can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that present them, or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory or imperfect attestation...known as what he spoke, then might you see the muse of Shakspeare in her triumph, with all her beauties in her best array, rising into real life, and charming... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 540 pages
...can live no longer tnan the instant breath and motion that present them, or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory or imperfect attestation...known as what he spoke, then might you see the muse of Shakspeare in her triumph, with all her beauties in her best array, rising into real life, and charming... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - Dramatists, English - 1812 - 472 pages
...periods, when, as Mr. Cibber expresses it, the animated graces of the player will, at lest, lut faintly glimmer through the memory, or imperfect attestation, of a few surviving spectators; nay, when even these testimonialsshall be unattainable, will be desirous of forming to their ideas... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 544 pages
...can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that present them, or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory or imperfect attestation...known as what he spoke, then might you see the muse of bhakspeare in her triumph, with all her beauties in her best array, rising into real life, and charming... | |
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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... 
