 | William Rogers - Clergy - 1888 - 250 pages
...more in action than famous Ned Allen." " No age must ever look to see the like " of him. He so acted " to the life that he made any part (especially a majestic one) to become him." My friend, Mr. Henry Irving, could wish for nothing more, and perhaps another gentleman whom I am happy... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - England - 1840 - 608 pages
...condemned, more have questioned, some few have excused, and far fewer conscientious people have commended. He was the Roscius of our age, so acting to the life...any part (especially a majestic one) to become him. He got a very great estate, and in his old age, following Christ's council (on what forcible motive... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 604 pages
...condemned, more have questioned, some few have excused, and far fewer conscientious people have commended. He was the Roscius of our age, so acting to the life...any part (especially a majestic one) to become him. He got a very great estate, and in his old age, following Christ's council (on what forcible motive... | |
 | English essays - 1841 - 736 pages
...Botolph, near Devonshire House, where now is the sign of the Pye, was bred a stage player, and became 'the Roscius of our age, so acting to the life that...any part, especially a majestic one, to become him.' "* John * See Fuller's Worthies, ii. Bvo. ed. 1811. Alleyn, his elder brother, was, like his father,... | |
 | John Payne Collier, Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - Actors - 1841 - 238 pages
...the sign of the Pye," was " bred a stage player;" and he certainly afterwards became " the Roscins of our age, so acting to the life, that he made any part (especially a majestic one) to become him." We may very safely conclude that Browne brought young Alleyn up to the profession of the stage ; and... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1841 - 242 pages
...the sign of the Pye," was " bred a stage player ;" and he certainly afterwards became " the Roscins of our age, so acting to the life, that he made any part (especially a majestic one) to become him." We may very safely conclnde that Browne brought young Alleyn up to the profession of the stage ; and... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1841 - 846 pages
...Devonshire House, where now is the sign of the Pye, was bred a stage player, and became ' the lloscius of our age, so acting to the life that he made any part, especially a majestic one, to become him,' "* John * See Fuller's Worthies, ii. Bvo. ed. 1811. Allcyn, Lis elder brother, was, like his father,... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley, John Britton, Edward William Brayley - Surrey (England) - 1844 - 288 pages
...commendation. He appears to have excelled in tragic characters, " so acting to the life," as Fuller informs us, "that he made any part, especially a majestic one, to become him." Heywood, a cotemporary dramatist. Sir Richard Baker, in his " Chronicle," and others, have likewise... | |
 | 1853 - 384 pages
...the sign of the Pye," was " bred a stage player;" and he certainly afterwards became " the Roscins of our age, so acting to the life, that he made any part (especially a majestic one) to become him." We may very safely conclude that Browne brought young Alleyn up to the profession of the stage ; and... | |
 | Charles Knight - Biography - 1866 - 552 pages
...Roscius for a tongue ; " that a grave chronicler, Sir Richard Baker, says of Burbage and Alleyu, " They were two such actors as no age must ever look...him, were there not circumstances connected with his publio history and his private character which lend an interest and importance to his career rarely... | |
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He was the Roscius of our age, so acting to the life that he made any part (especially a majestic one) to become him. 
