 | Frederick William Hawkins - Actors - 1869 - 454 pages
...her Lady Macbeth. " It seemed as if a being of a superior order," writes her most ardent critic, " had dropped from another sphere to awe the world with the majesty of her appearance." Among the many imitators of John Kemble, Young deserves to be mentioned. He was a fine declaimer, and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1876 - 816 pages
...The enthusiasm she excited had something idolatrous about it ; she was regarded less with admiration than with wonder, as if a being of a superior order...another sphere to awe the world with the majesty of her presence. She raised tragedy to the skies, or brought it down from thence. It was something above nature.... | |
 | 1877 - 616 pages
...century. Hazlitt says : ' The enthusiasm she excited had something idolatrous about it. We can conceive nothing grander. She embodied to our imagination the fables of mythology, of the heroic and the deified mortals of elder time. She was not less than a goddess or a prophetess inspired by the... | |
 | Belgravia - 1877 - 556 pages
...century. Hazlitt says: 'The enthusiasm she excited had something idolatrous about it. We can conceive nothing grander. She embodied to our imagination the fables of mythology, of the heroic and the deified mortals of elder time. She was not less than a goddess or a prophetess inspired by the... | |
 | English periodicals - 1877 - 562 pages
...century. Hazlitt says : ' The enthusiasm she excited had something idolatrous about it. \Ve can conceive nothing grander. She embodied to our imagination the fables of mythology, of the heroic and the deified mortals of elder time. She was not less than a goddess or a prophetess inspired by the... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Actors - 1888 - 324 pages
...enthusiasm she excited " had something idolatrous about it ; she was regarded less with admiration than wonder, as if a being of a superior order had dropped...embodied to our imagination the fables of mythology, or the heroic and deified mortals of elder time. She was not less than a goddess, or than a prophetess... | |
 | Henry Barton Baker - Acting and actors - 1904 - 604 pages
...excited," to quote Hazlitt, "had something idolatrous about it; she was regarded less with admiration than with wonder, as if a being of a superior order...awe the world with the majesty of her appearance. We can conceive nothing grander. . . . She embodied to our imagination the fables of mythology, of... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Artists - 1906 - 362 pages
...enthusiasm she excited " had something idolatrous about it ; she was regarded less with admiration than wonder, as if a being of a superior order had dropped...it down from thence. It was something above nature. . . . To have seen Mrs. Siddons was an event in every one's life." Socially she was not less a success,... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - Philology, Modern - 1917 - 890 pages
...excited had something idolatrous about it; she was regarded less with admiration than with wonder. She raised Tragedy to the skies, or brought it down from thence.™ Mrs. Siddons's acting was of the " grand style " advocated by Eeynolds. It had in it much of the sublime.... | |
 | Hawaii - 1928 - 674 pages
...she has received is greater than that which is paid to Queens. She was regarded less with admiration than with wonder, as if a being of a superior order...it down from thence. It was something above nature. To have seen Mrs. Siddons was an event in every one's life." Mrs. Siddons died in London at the age... | |
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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 as from a shrine. She was tragedy personified. 
