Memoirs of Miss O'Neill: Containing Her Public Character, Private Life, and Dramatic Progress, from Her Entrance Upon the Stage;...D. Cox, 1816 - 100 páginas |
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... Siddons acquired . Great as are the powers of this last actress , it is acknow- ledged she owed much to time and study , that she was literally broke in , and in the peculiar mode of acting she adopted , that there was much practice and ...
... Siddons acquired . Great as are the powers of this last actress , it is acknow- ledged she owed much to time and study , that she was literally broke in , and in the peculiar mode of acting she adopted , that there was much practice and ...
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... Siddons had made a chasm in the heroines of the stage . Inef- fectual attempts had been made to supply her place by second rate characters , who strutted for a few nights and then were heard of no more . But the big impassioned tone ...
... Siddons had made a chasm in the heroines of the stage . Inef- fectual attempts had been made to supply her place by second rate characters , who strutted for a few nights and then were heard of no more . But the big impassioned tone ...
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... Siddons , the heroines they had for- merly been accustomed to admire . The figure Miss O'Neill presented was highly prepossessing . Her height is above the middle size , her countenance full of intelligence and sensibility , and her ...
... Siddons , the heroines they had for- merly been accustomed to admire . The figure Miss O'Neill presented was highly prepossessing . Her height is above the middle size , her countenance full of intelligence and sensibility , and her ...
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... Siddons , who , certainly , in pourtraying the sublime and terrific , has made that grand impression which renders her unrivalled in this department of the drama . To this may be added , that our Heroine labours under a physical ...
... Siddons , who , certainly , in pourtraying the sublime and terrific , has made that grand impression which renders her unrivalled in this department of the drama . To this may be added , that our Heroine labours under a physical ...
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... Siddons , in the same part . The one literally plays round the head - we admire it , and it is lost ; the other goes to the heart , and is rivetted . The ex- pression , Ꭰ " Yes ! your daughter , " is given with MISS O'NEILL . 33.
... Siddons , in the same part . The one literally plays round the head - we admire it , and it is lost ; the other goes to the heart , and is rivetted . The ex- pression , Ꭰ " Yes ! your daughter , " is given with MISS O'NEILL . 33.
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