 | Thomas Davies - 1783 - 442 pages
...manner of fpeaking this celebrated imprecation was jmpreffive j but his voice wanted that power er and flexibility which varied paffion requires. His...of fomething great in future. He had about him the bloflbms of an excellent actor ; many fcenes of the choleric king were well adapted to his fine conceptions... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1889 - 458 pages
...passion requires. His pauses and broken interruptions of speech, of which he was extremelyenamoured . . . were at times too inartificially repeated ; nor did...terror to the whole which the great poet intended should predominate " (Davies, Dram. Misc. ii. 280, 281). In one or two scenes Barry was charged with... | |
 | Brander Matthews, Laurence Hutton - 1900 - 340 pages
...requires. His pauses and broken interruptions of speech, of which he was extremely enamored, sometimes to a degree of impropriety, were at times too inartificially...terror to the whole which the great poet intended should predominate. THOMAS DAVIES : ' Dramatic Miscellanies,' vol. it., chap. 31. Spranger Barry died... | |
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His pauses and broken interruptions of speech, of which he was extremely enamored, sometimes to a degree of impropriety, were at times too inartificially repeated ; nor did he give that terror to the whole which the great poet intended should predominate.... 