 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 halaman
...that I have been informed by an actor who was present, that, while Lee was reading to Major Mohun, at a rehearsal, Mohun, in the warmth of his admiration,...down his part, and said, ' Unless I were able to play it as well as you read it, to what purpose should I undertake it ?' And yet," continues the laureate,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 452 halaman
...that I have been informed by an actor who was present, that, while Lee was reading to Major Mohun, at a rehearsal, Mohun, in the warmth of his admiration,...down his part, and said, * Unless I were able to play it as well as you read it, to what purpose should I undertake it ?' And yet," continues the laureate,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 halaman
...in the warmth of his admiration, threw down his part, and exclaimed, " Cnless I were able to play It as well as you read It, to what purpose should I undertake it7" Yet it is a very remarkable circumstance, that Lee failed as an actor in attempting to perform... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 halaman
...scenes, that I have been informed by an actor who was present, that while Lee was reading to Major Mohun at a rehearsal, Mohun, in the warmth of his admiration,...it, to what purpose should I undertake it ?" And yet this very author, whose elocution raised such admiration in so capital an actor, when he attempted... | |
 | Thomas Betterton - 1888 - 176 halaman
...that I have been informed by an actor, who was present, that while Lee was reading to Major Mohun, at a rehearsal, Mohun, in the warmth of his admiration,...down his part, and said, unless I were able to play it as well as you read it, to what purpose should I undertake it ? And yet this very author, whose... | |
 | Thomas Betterton - 1888 - 180 halaman
...Mohnn, in the warmth of his admiration, threw clown his part, and said, unless I were able to play it as well as you read it, to what purpose should I undertake it 1 And yet this very author, whose elocution raised such admiration in so capital an actor, when he... | |
 | Robert William Lowe - 1891 - 212 halaman
...one day at rehearsal, threw down his part in despair,, exclaiming, " Unless I were able to play it as well as you read it, to what purpose should I undertake it ? " As actors, Otway and Lee were thus no advantage to the Duke's company, which began to need recruits.... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1892 - 472 halaman
...the company. 'Unless I were to ЙН,' the actor is reported to have said to of one of his parts, ' as well as you read it, to what purpose should I undertake it ? ' The plots of Lee's tragedies were mainly drawn from classical history, but he treated his authorities... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 halaman
...scenes, that I have been informed by an actor who was present, that while Lee was reading to major Mohun at a rehearsal, Mohun in the warmth of his admiration...his part and said — "Unless I were able to play it as well as you read it, to what purpose should I undertake it?" And yet this very author, whose... | |
 | Burris Jenkins - 1922 - 322 halaman
...did read? And when he had done, the player flung down his part and cried : " Unless I were to play it as well as you read it, to what purpose should I undertake it ? " Nat laughed at first, well pleased, and then he grew into wrath that an actor should be so easily... | |
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Lee, far his inferior in poetry, was so pathetic a reader of his own scenes, that I have been informed by an actor who was present, that while Lee was reading to major Mohun at a rehearsal, Mohun in the warmth of his admiration threw down his part . and... 
