 His person was of the middle size, his voice clear and audible; his natural countenance, grave and sober; but the moment he spoke, the settled seriousness of his features was utterly discharged, and a dry, drolling, or laughing levity took such full possession...  Our old actors - Σελίδα 79των Henry Barton Baker - 1878Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Colley Cibber - 1740 - 524 σελίδες
...Features was utterly difcharg'd, and a dry, drolling, or laughing Levity took fuch full Poffeffion of him, that I can only refer the Idea of him to your Imagination. In fome of his low Characters, that became it, he had a fhuffling Shamble in his Gait, with fo contented... | |
 | Colley Cibber - 1742 - 242 σελίδες
...Features was utterly difcharg'd, and a dry, drolling, or laughing Levity took fuch full Poffeffion of him, that I can only refer the Idea of him to your Imagination. In fome of his low Characters, that became it, he had a fhuffling Shamble in his Gait, with fo contended... | |
 | Colley Cibber - 1750 - 594 σελίδες
...Features was utterly difcharg'd, and a dry, drolling, or laughing Levity took fuch full Pofleffion of him, that I can only refer the Idea of him to your Imagination. In fome of his low Characters, that became it, he had a muffling Shamble in his Gait, with fo contented... | |
 | John Bell - 1789 - 396 σελίδες
...excellence may be comprehended in one article, viz. a plain and palpable simplicity of nature. — His person was of the middle size, his voice clear...features was utterly discharged, and a dry, drolling, laughing levity took such full possession of him, that I can only re • fer the idea of him to your... | |
 | 1789 - 202 σελίδες
...moment he spoke, the settled seriousness of his features was utterly discharged, and a dry, drolling, laughing levity took such full possession of him, that I can only re fer the idea of him to your imagination. In some of his low characters that became it, he had a... | |
 | 1820 - 394 σελίδες
...speech, than poor miserable Nokes did, by this silent eloquence, and piteous plight of his features ? " His person was of the middle size, his voice clear,...seriousness of his features was utterly discharged, and a drv, drolling, or laughing levity took such full possession of him, that I can only refer the idea... | |
 | 1824 - 436 σελίδες
...speech, than poor miserable Nokes did, by this silent eloquence, and piteous plight of his features ? His person was of the middle size, his voice clear...and a dry, drolling, or laughing levity took such possession of him, that I can only refer the idea ol him to your imagination. In some of his low characters,... | |
 | 1820 - 398 σελίδες
...speech, than poor miserable Nokes did, by this silent eloquence, and piteous plight of his features? " His person was of the middle size, his voice clear,...the settled seriousness of his features was utterly discharg'd, and a dry, drolling, or laughing levity took such full possession of him, that I can only... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 656 σελίδες
...you to a fatigue of laughter, it became a moot point, whether you ought not to have pitied him — his person was of the middle size, his voice clear...spoke, the settled seriousness of his features was discharged, and a dry drolling or laughing levity took full possession of him — in some of his low... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1836 - 686 σελίδες
...miserable Nukes did, by this silent eloquence, and piteous plight of his features ? " His person was <jf the middle size, his voice clear, and audible ; his...countenance grave, and sober; but the moment he spoke, the startled seriousness of his feature« was utterly discharged, and a dry. drolling, or laughing levity... | |
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