 | William Davenport Adams - 1904 - 646 頁
...wrote Steele in the Taller, "ought to be recorded with the same respect as Roscins among the Romans. I have hardly a notion that any performer of antiquity could surpass the action of Mr. Bet' rton in any of the occasions in which he has appeared upon our stage." Jiutterton, it may be noted,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1922 - 496 頁
...antiquity could ever have surpassed the acting of Betterton in the parts which he had played on the English stage. The wonderful agony -which he appeared in, when he examined the circumstances of the handkerchief in ' Othello,' the mixture of love and tenderness that intruded on... | |
 | Andrew Parker, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick - 1995 - 254 頁
...to demonstrate the defining power of theatrical performance in "the forming of a Free-born people": I have hardly a Notion that any Performer of Antiquity could surpass the Action of Mr. Betterton on any of the Occasions in which he has appeared on our Stage. The wonderful Agony which he appeared... | |
 | Joseph R. Roach - 1996 - 356 頁
...actor's contribution to the "Human Invention" that was vital to "the forming [of] a Free-born people": I have hardly a Notion that any Performer of Antiquity could surpass the Action of Mr. Betterton on any of the Occasions in which he has appeared on our Stage. The wonderful Agony which he appeared... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 592 頁
...the novelletti of Giovanni Giraldi Cinthio (died 1573). Addison says of Thomas Betterton (1635-1710): "The wonderful agony which he appeared in when he examined the circumstance of the handkerchief in the part of ' Othello,' and the mixture of love that intruded on his mind at the innocent answers of... | |
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I have hardly a notion, that any performer of antiquity could surpass the action of Mr. Betterton in any of the occasions in which he has appeared on our stage. The wonderful agony which he appeared in, when he examined the circumstance of the handkerchief... 
