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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... "
Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Page 265
by Thomas Moore - 1825
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A Dramatic Synopsis: Containing an Essay on the Political and Moral Use of a ...

Thomas Gilliland - 1804 - 160 pages
...That the animated graces of the Player can 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...
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Chironomia; or, A treatise on rhetorical delivery

Gilbert Austin - 1806 - 684 pages
...that the animated graces of the player, can 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. Could " how Betterton spoke be as easily...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 3

1818 - 806 pages
...! that the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them ; or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory, or imperfect recollection of a few surviving spectators !"t The three volumes which complete the History...
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An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian and Patentee of the ...

Colley Cibber - 1822 - 564 pages
...; that the animated graces of the player can 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. Could how Betterton spoke be as easily known...
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Memoirs of the life of ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Volume 1

Thomas Moore - 1825 - 566 pages
...that the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion 1779 that presents them, or, at best, can but faintly glimmer...of cadence are the inseparable companions of this metre in ordinary hands ; nor could all the taste and skill of Sheridan keep it wholly free from these...
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Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Volume 1

Thomas Moore - 1826 - 570 pages
...; that the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them, or, at best, can but faintly glimmer...of cadence are the inseparable companions of this metre in ordinary hands ; nor could all the taste and skill of Sheridan keep it wholly free from these...
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An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber ... Written by himself

Colley Cibber - 1826 - 358 pages
...; that the animated graces of the player can 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 1 Could how Betterton spoke be as easily known...
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Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volume 1

1826 - 362 pages
...record; that the animated graces of the player can 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 ! Could how Betterton spoke be as easily known...
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Proceedings ... from ... 1819, to January, 1829 [ed.] by a member of the club

Shakespeare club Sheffield - 1829 - 190 pages
...that the animated graces of the player should live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them, or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory of a few surviving spectators." Limited, Sir, as is the support of provincial theatres, and captivating and engrossing as is the wealth...
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The Lives of the Players, Volume 1

John Galt - 1831 - 336 pages
...; that the animated graces of the player can 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. Could how Betterton spoke be as easily known...
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