 It was something above nature. We can conceive of nothing grander. She embodied to our imagination the fables of mythology, of the heroic and deified mortals of elder time. She was not less than a goddess, or than a prophetess inspired by the gods. Power...  Our Old Actors - Page 34by Henry Barton Baker - 1878Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - Acting - 1818 - 282 pages
...seated on her brow, passion emanated from her breast as from a shrine. She was Tragedy perI sonified. She was the stateliest ornament of the public mind....expectation, and quenched the blaze of surrounding ibeauty in silent tears, but to the retired and lonely 'student, through long years of solitude, her... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Acting - 1851 - 360 pages
...excited had something idolatrous about it ; she was regarded less with ad* June 15, 1816. miration than with wonder, as if a being of a superior order...silent tears, but to the retired and lonely student, through long years of solitude, her face has shone as if an eye had appeared from heaven ; her name... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Acting - 1851 - 364 pages
...excited had something idolatrous about it ; she was regarded less with ad* June 15, 181G. miration than with wonder, as if a being of a superior order...the pit in breathless expectation, and 'quenched the rblaze of surrounding beauty in silent tears, but to the retired and lonely student, through long years... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Acting - 1854 - 358 pages
...passion emanated from her breast as from a shrine. She was tragedy personified. She was the*tateliest ornament of the public mind. She was not only the...silent tears, but to the retired and lonely student, through long years of solitude, her face has shone as if an eye had appeared from heaven ; her name... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1876 - 816 pages
...She embodied to our imagination the fables of mythology, of the heroic and deified mortals of olden time. She was not less than a goddess, or than a prophetess...silent tears, but to the retired and lonely student, through long years of solitude, her face has shone as if an eye had appeared from heaven ; her name... | |
 | American periodicals - 1877 - 826 pages
...was seated on her brow ; pasNew SERIES.— VOL. XXVI., No. 4 sion emanated from her breast as^from a shrine. She was tragedy personifie'd. She was the...silent tears, but to the retired and lonely student, through long years of solitude, her face has shone as if an angel had appeared from heaven ; her name... | |
 | Actors - 1878 - 234 pages
...this favorite subject: " The homage she has received is greater than that which is paid to queens," he said, at her farewell. " The enthusiasm she excited...of the people, she not only hushed the tumultuous shout of the pit in breathless expectation, and quenched the blaze of surrounding beauty in silent... | |
 | Actors - 1878 - 244 pages
...this favorite subject : " The homage she has received is greater than that which is paid to queens," he said, at her farewell. " The enthusiasm she excited...of the people, she not only hushed the tumultuous shout of the pit in breathless expectation, and quenched the blaze of surrounding beauty in silent... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Actors - 1888 - 324 pages
...nature. We can conceive of nothing grander. She embodied to our imagination the fables of mythology, or the heroic and deified mortals of elder time. She...expectation, and quenched the blaze of surrounding beauty MRS. SIDDONS LIONIZED. 167 in silent tears, but to the retired and lonely student through long years... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1889 - 364 pages
...pass in review before me. The homage she has received is greater than that which is paid to queens. The enthusiasm she excited had something idolatrous...silent tears, but to the retired and lonely student, through long years of solitude, her face has shone as if an eye had appeared from heaven ; her name... | |
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