 She raised tragedy to the skies, or brought it down from thence. 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...  Belgravia - Page 1631877Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - Acting - 1818 - 282 pages
...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 was seated on her brow, passion emanated from her breast... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Acting - 1851 - 364 pages
...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 in'spired by the gods. Power was seated on her brow, passion emanated from her breast... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Acting - 1851 - 360 pages
...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 was seated on her brow, passion emanated from her breast... | |
 | 1867
...conceive 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 was seated on her brow; passion radiated from her breast... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1875 - 1008 pages
...mythology, of the heroic and deified mortals of olden time. She was not less than a goddess, or than a prophetess inspired by the gods. Power was seated on her brow, passion emanated from her breast as from a shrine. She was tragedy personified. She was the stateliest ornament... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1876 - 816 pages
...mythology, of the heroic and deified mortals of olden time. She was not less than a goddess, or than a prophetess inspired by the gods. Power was seated on her brow, passion emanated from her breast as from a shrine. She was tragedy personified. She was the stateliest ornament... | |
 | 1877 - 616 pages
...was carried out of the boxes screaming, ' Oh my Biron, my Biron ! ' The young lady was Miss Gordon of Giht, and, strange to say, was afterwards the mother...Not until 1812 did she take leave of the stage. It was in one of her greatest parts, Lady Macbeth ; and never, it is said, did she act more grandly. At... | |
 | Belgravia - 1877 - 556 pages
...was carried out of the boxes screaming, ' Oh my Biron, my Biron ! ' The young lady was Miss Gordon of Giht, and, strange to say, was afterwards the mother...She was tragedy personified.' Not until 1812 did she leave of the stage. It was in one of her greatest parts, Lady Macbeth ; and never, it is said, did... | |
 | American periodicals - 1877 - 826 pages
...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 was seated on her brow ; pasNew SERIES.— VOL. XXVI.,... | |
 | Actors - 1878 - 234 pages
...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 was seated on her brow; passion emanated from her breast... | |
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