 | John Buchan - 1923 - 746 páginas
...tragedy one of the leading actors threw down his script with the cry, " Unless I were able to play it as well as you read it, to what purpose should I undertake it ! " Lee is, with the exception of Dryden, the most typical heroic dramatist. His plays were written... | |
 | Walter Prichard Eaton - 1924 - 384 páginas
...Scenes, that I have been informed by an Actor who was present, that while Lee was reading to Major Mohun at a Rehearsal, Mohun, in the Warmth of his Admiration,...down his Part and said — Unless I were able to play it as well as you read it, to what purpose should I undertake it? And yet this very Author, whose Elocution... | |
 | Colley Cibber, Byrne R. S. Fone - 2000 - 422 páginas
...Senses, that I have been inform'd by an Actor, who was present, that while Lee was reading to Major Mohun at a Rehearsal, Mohun, in the Warmth of his Admiration,...down his Part, and said, Unless I were able to play it, as well as you read it, to what purpose should I undertake it? And yet this very Author, whose... | |
 | William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Staff, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies Staff - 2004 - 370 páginas
...Senses, that I have been inform'd by an Actor, who was present, that while Lee was reading to Major Mohun at a Rehearsal, Mohun, in the Warmth of his Admiration,...down his Part, and said, Unless I were able to play it, as well as you read it, to what purpose should I undertake it?'2' Although Cibber marvels that... | |
 | 1802 - 456 páginas
...scenes, that I have been informed by an actor, who was present, that while Lee was reading to Major Mohun at a rehearsal, Mohun, in the warmth of his admiration,...down- his part, and said, unless I were able to play it as well as you read it, to what purpose should I undertake it f And yet this very author, whose... | |
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Lee, far his inferior in poetry, was so pathetic a reader of his own scenes, that I have been informed by an actor who was present, that while Lee was reading to major Mohun at a rehearsal, Mohun in the warmth of his admiration threw down his part . and... 
