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" ... power to embody the highest ideals of majesty, pathos, and appalling anguish. She was not a great actress merely, but she was a great woman. She did not possess the dramatic faculty apart from other faculties, and conquer by that alone; but, having... "
Players of a Century: A Record of the Albany Stage - Page 202
by Henry Pitt Phelps - 1880 - 412 pages
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Charlotte Cushman

Clara Erskine Clement Waters - Actors - 1882 - 246 pages
...faculties, and conquer by that alone ; but, having that faculty in almost unlimited fulness, she poured forth through its channel such resources of character,...of her presence. Every movement that she made was wimiingly characteristic. Her least ges145 ture was eloquence. Her voice, which was soft or silvery,...
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Shadows of the Stage

William Winter - Actors - 1893 - 394 pages
...other faculties, and conquer by that alone ; but, having that faculty in copious affluence she poured forth through its channel such resources of character,...When she came upon the stage she filled it with the weirdness and the brilliant vitality of her presence. Every movement that she made was winningly characteristic....
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A Life of Charlotte Cushman

William Thompson Price - Biography & Autobiography - 1894 - 224 pages
...faculties, and conquer by that alone ; but having that faculty in almost unlimited fulness, she poured through its channel such resources of character, intellect,...genius of the first order, while they made her an irresistable force in art. When she came upon the stage she filled it with the brilliant vitality of...
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The Wallet of Time: Containing Personal, Biographical, and ..., Volume 1

William Winter - Actors - 1913 - 774 pages
...apart from other faculties, and conquer by that alone; but, being affluent in that faculty, she poured forth through its channel such resources of character,...strength, soul, and personal magnetism as marked her as a genius of the first order while they made her an irresistible force in art. When she came upon...
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
..."she was not a great actress merely, but she was a great woman." She had a magnetic personality and "when she came upon the stage she filled it with . . . the brilliant vitality of her presence." A liberated woman, far ahead of her time, she had lovers but never married. Her work was her chief...
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