 | Dorothy Senior - 1928 - 350 pagina’s
...tempted to borrow the aid of a very bold figure and to express this excellence the more significantly, by permission to affirm, that the Blind might have seen...voice, and the Deaf have heard him in his visage." 2 Doggett did not share Gibber's admiration for Barton Booth. When the latter was by royal command... | |
 | 1911 - 1068 pagina’s
...possessed of a voice of wide compass and peculiar sweetness. Aaron Hill wrote of him, as an actor, that "the blind might have seen him in his voice and the deaf have heard him in his visage." Accessible though incomplete analysis of his presentment of Othello indicates that his personality... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 340 pagina’s
...Sweetness in his Countenance . . . His Attitudes were all picturesque, he was noble in his Designs . . . the Blind might have seen him in his Voice, and the Deaf have heard him in his Visage." In playing Othello, as Benjamin Victor observed, Booth had to go beyond appearance and technique to... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1864 - 612 pagina’s
...pecuniary compliment. This great actor had education, feeling, and judgment ; and Aaron Hill wrote of him, that " the blind might have seen him in his voice, and the deaf have heard him in his visage." Mrs. Oldfield, whose exuberant grace, humour, and vivacity were displayed in the sixty-five parts she... | |
 | 1765 - 422 pagina’s
...expreis this excellence the more fignificantly, beg permilfion to affirm, that the blind might have leen him in his voice, and the deaf have heard him in his vifage. His geftures, or, as it is commonly called his action, was but the refult and necefiary cbnfequenc'e... | |
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Booth's peculiar felicity to be heard and seen the same — whether as the pleased, the grieved, the pitying, the reproachful, or the angry. One would... 
