| Thomas Davies - Drama - 1783 - 442 pages
...Shakfpeare, we (hould confider, too,-.wrote them for the mouth of one who was to affume the a6tion of an pld man of fourfcore, for a father as well as a monarch,...perfonating Lear, his figure was dignified and venerable; his manner of fpeaking this celebrated imprecation was jmpreffive j but his voice wanted that power... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1880 - 526 pages
...affecting to the audience, that, (luring his utterance of it, they seemed to shrink from it as frum a blast of lightning. His preparation for it was extremely...his throwing away his crutch, kneeling on one knee, clasping his bauds together, and lifting his eyes toward heaven, presented a picture worthy the pencil... | |
| Henry Barton Baker - 1878 - 428 pages
...affecting to the audience, that, during his utterance of it, they seemed to shrink from it as a blast of lightning. His preparation for it was extremely...his throwing away his crutch, kneeling on one knee, clasping his hands together, and lifting his eyes towards heaven, presented a picture worthy of Raphael."... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1880 - 676 pages
...affecting to the audience, that, during his utterance of it, they seemed to shrink from it as from a blast of lightning. His preparation for it was extremely...his throwing away his crutch, kneeling on one knee, clasping his hands together, and lifting his eyes toward heaven, presented a picture worthy the pencil... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1889 - 458 pages
...affecting to the audience, that, during his utterance of it, they seemed to shrink from it as from a blast of lightning. His preparation for it was extremely...his throwing away his crutch, kneeling on one knee, clasping his hands together and lifting' his eyes toward heaven, presented a picture worthy of the... | |
| England - 1893 - 972 pages
...affecting to the audience that during his utterance of it they seemed to shrink from it as from a blast of lightning. His preparation for it was extremely...his throwing away his crutch, kneeling on one knee, clasping his hands together and lifting his eyes towards heaven, presented a picture worthy of the... | |
| Joseph Knight - Actors - 1894 - 366 pages
...during the utterance of it, they seemed to shrink from it as from a blast of lightning," and adds, " His preparation for it was extremely affecting ; his throwing away his crutch, kneeling on one knee, clasping his hands together, and lifting his eyes towards heaven, presented a picture worthy the pencil... | |
| William Shakespeare - Aging parents - 1907 - 342 pages
...affecting to the audience, that, during his utterance of it, they seemed to shrink from it as from a blast of lightning. His preparation for it was extremely...his throwing away his crutch, kneeling on one knee, clasping his hands together, and lifting his eyes toward heaven, presented a picture worthy the pencil... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1919 - 346 pages
...affecting to the audience, that, during his utterance of it, they seemed to shrink from it as from a blast of lightning. His preparation for it was extremely...his throwing away his crutch kneeling on one knee, clasping his hands together, and lifting his eyes toward heaven, presented a picture worthy the pencil... | |
| Elocution - 1895 - 1034 pages
...affecting to the audience that during his utterance of it they seemed to shrink from it as from a blast of lightning. His preparation for it was* extremely...his throwing away his crutch, kneeling on one knee, clasping his hands together and lifting his eyes toward heaven, presented a picture worthy of a Raphael."... | |
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