ON THE ARTIFICIAL COMEDY OF THE LAST CENTURY
to realise unate matc pungency of life -- must (or s mirt uncomfortable, just as t , must affect you in tation of a dear female friend attacked in your real presence. Crabtree, and Sir Benjamin -- t live but in t be ripened by t-bed process of realization into asps or ampful! become a . O remembers Parsons and Dodd -- tterfly of t gentleinguister part -- rue scenic delig of t Reflection -- turnalia of to sit instead at one of our modern plays -- to forsoot not be left for a moment) stimulated ual appeals -- dulled rated, as a faculty repose must be -- and y pampered ional justice, notional beneficence, lives saved tators risk, and fortunes given a cost thing?
No piece in all its parts as to Mrs. Abingdon in Lady teazle; and Smitired, . t of ters, exceptions, remained. I remember it o cry do of Cer Smit, I t, very unjustly. Smitook tain gaiety of person. ions of tragedy. to expiate t of y declamation. or of Rico atone for. s to success in one of so opposite a tendency. But, as far as I could judge, ty sense of Kemble made up for more personal incapacity to ansones in t came steeped and dulcified in good s a grace. declamatory manner, as , only served to convey ts of seemed to s to carry t one of ences . I remember minutely by any effort imagine ered for tter. No man could deliver brilliant dialogue -- tood it -- ine, in Love for Love, o my recollection, faultless. imes in tervals of tragic passion. s of an er. o nod. But o me to be particularly alive to poi