 | Charlotte Endymion Porter - 1887 - 630 pages
...account of what parts he used to play; aud though I have inquired, I could never meet with ( xiv.) any further account of him this way than that the top of his performance was the Ghost, in his own Hamlet. I should have been much more pleased to have learned from certain authority... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1888 - 486 pages
...well-shaped man," which is no slight matter on the stage; and adds, "He did act exceedingly well." Rowe "could never meet with any further account of him...way, than that the top of his performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet.n But this part, to be fairly dealt with, requires an actor of no mean powers... | |
 | Frank Walters - 1889 - 198 pages
...that he was distinguished, ' if not as an extraordinary actor, yet as an excellent writer,' adding, ' I could never meet with any further account of him...way, than that the top of his performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet.1 The profession seems to have been distasteful to him, and he soon gave it... | |
 | Thomas William White - 1892 - 326 pages
...Shakespeare achieved no success in the profession he had chosen. Rowe says : " Though I have enquired, I could never meet with any further account of him...way, than that the top of his performance was the Ghost in his own 'Hamlet.'" (p. vi.) Certainly no such * Mr. Halliwell Phillipps, in his ' Outlines'... | |
 | Daniel Webster Wilder - 1893 - 238 pages
...but without any particular account of what sort of parts he us'd to play ; and tho' I have inquir'd, I could never meet with any further account of him...this way than that the top of his performance was the ghost in his own Hamlet. I should have been much more pleas'd to have learn'd, from some certain authority,... | |
 | William Henry Edwards - 1900 - 534 pages
...not as an extraordinary actor, yet as an excellent writer. . . . Though I have inquired I never could meet with any further account of him this way than that the top of his performance was the Ghost of his own Hamlet. ' ' Betterton made a special journey into Warwickshire "to gather up what... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pages
...but without any particular account of what sort of parts he us'd to play ; and tho' I have inquir'd, I could never meet with any further account of him...way, than that the top of his Performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet. I should have been much more pleas'd to have learn'd from some certain authority,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 pages
...but without any particular account of what sort of parts he us'd to play ; and tho' I have inquir'd, I could never meet with any further account of him...way, than that the top of his Performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet. I should have been much more pleas'd to have learn'd from some certain authority,... | |
 | John Hawley Stotsenburg - 1904 - 556 pages
...but without any particular account of what sort of parts he used to play; and though I have inquired, I could never meet with any further account of him...this way than that the top of his performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet." A man could not be a very extraordinary actor who only took the part of the... | |
 | Beverley Ellison Warner - 1906 - 328 pages
...but without any particular account of what sort of parts he used to play; and though I have inquired, I could never meet with any further account of him this way, than that the top of his performance vras the Ghost in his own " Hamlet." 5 I should have been much more pleased, to have learned from certain... | |
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His name is printed, as the custom was in those times, amongst those of the other players, before some old plays, but without any particular account of what sort of parts he... 
