... when, after long and eager expectation, I first beheld little Garrick, then young and light and alive in every muscle and in every feature, come bounding on the stage, and pointing at the wittol Altamont and heavy -paced Horatio — heavens, what... Memoirs of Richard Cumberland - Page 79by Richard Cumberland - 1807 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1806 - 512 pages
...Garrick, then young and light, and alive in every mufcle and in every feature, come bounding on the ftage, and pointing at the wittol Altamont and heavy-paced Horatio — heavens, what a tranfition 1 — it feemed as if a whole century had been ftept over in the tranfition of a fingle... | |
| 1829 - 390 pages
...and of course more change of tone and variety both of action and. expression. But, when after long expectation I first beheld little Garrick, then young...feature, come bounding on the stage, and pointing at Altamont, and heavy paced Horatio, Heavens ! what a transition ! it seemed as if a whole century had... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 754 pages
...and expression. In my opinion, the comparison was decidedly in her favour. But when, after long and eager expectation, I first beheld little Garrick,...Altamont and heavy-paced Horatio— heavens, what a transition!—it seemed as if a whole century had been stepped over in the transition of a single scene!... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 756 pages
...and expression. In my opinion, the comparison was decidedly in her favour. But when, after long and eager expectation, I first beheld little Garrick,...feature, come bounding on the stage, and pointing at the wittd Altamont and heavy-paced Horatio— heavens, what a transition!—it seemed as if a whole century... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 348 pages
...and expression : in my opinion the comparison was decidedly in her favour ; but when, after long and eager expectation, I first beheld little Garrick,...the stage, and pointing at the wittol Altamont and heavy -paced Horatio — heavens, what a transition! — it seemed as if a whole century had been swept... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...pitched, but sweet withal, sang, or rather recitatived, Rowe's harmonious strain. But when, after long and eager expectation, I first beheld little Garrick,...the stage, and pointing at the wittol Altamont and the heavy-paced Horatio (Heavens, what a transition!) it seemed as if a whole century had been swept... | |
| John Forster - 1854 - 642 pages
...whom I quote, " after a long and " eager expectation, I first beheld little Garrick, then younfj " and light and alive in every muscle and in every feature,...bounding on the stage, and pointing at the wittol 1759. " Altamont and heavy-paced Horatio — Heavens ! what a Mt,. 31. " transition ! it seemed as... | |
| John Forster - 1854 - 512 pages
...favour. " But when," continues Richard Cumberland, for it is he whom I quote, " after a long and " eager expectation, I first beheld little Garrick,...light and alive in every muscle and in every feature, " corae bounding on the stage, and pointing at the wittol 1759. " Altamont and heavy-paced Horatio... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1857 - 396 pages
...pitched, but sweet withal, sang, or rather recitatived, Howe's harmonious strain. But when, after long and eager expectation, I first beheld little Garrick,...feature, come bounding on the stage, and pointing at the witttol Altamont aud the heavy-paced Horatio (Heavens, what a transition !) it seemed as if a whole... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1865 - 616 pages
...of mind produced by this first experience of the real dramatic art — how, " when little Garrick, young and light, and alive in every muscle and in every feature, came bounding on the stage," the spectator, who had been listening to the " dignified elocution " of... | |
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