 The voice of a singer is not more strictly tied to time and tune than that of an actor in theatrical elocution : the least syllable too long, or too slightly dwelt upon, in a period, depreciates it to nothing : which very syllable if rightly touched,...  The Life of Edmund Kean - Page xxiiide Barry Cornwall - 1835Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Colley Cibber - 1740 - 524 pages
...of Sound depends their greateft Beauty or Inaffe&ion. The Voice of a Singer is not moreftrictly ty'd to Time and Tune, than that of an Actor in Theatrical Elocution : The leaft Syllable too long, or too flightly dwelt upon in a Period, depreciates it to nothing; which very... | |
 | Colley Cibber - 1750 - 594 pages
...Sound depends their greateft Beauty or Inaffection. The Voice' of a Singer is not more ftrictly ty'd to Time and Tune, than that of an Actor in Theatrical Elocution: The leaft Syllable too long, or tooflightly dwelt upon in a Period, depreciates it to nothing ; which very... | |
 | Colley Cibber - 1822 - 564 pages
...observations upon action tend, you will give me leave, under his character, to enlarge upon that head. In the just delivery of poetical numbers, particularly...dwelt upon in a period, depreciates it to nothing ; which very syllable, if rightly touched, shall, like the heightening stroke of light from a master's... | |
 | Colley Cibber - 1826 - 358 pages
...observations upon action tend, you will give me leave, under his character, to enlarge upon that head. In the just delivery of poetical numbers, particularly...or too slightly dwelt upon in a period, depreciates B 3 it to nothing ; while every syllable if rightly touched shall, like the heightening stroke of light... | |
 | 1826 - 362 pages
...observations upon action tend, you will give me leave, under his eharacter, to enlarge upon that head. In the just delivery of poetical numbers, particularly...or too slightly dwelt upon in a period, depreciates H 3 jt to nothing; while every syllable if rightly touched shall, like the heightening stroke of light... | |
 | 1893 - 958 pages
...depends their greatest beauty and effect. The voice of a singer is not more strictly ty'd to Time ami Tune than that of an actor in theatrical elocution....dwelt upon in a period, depreciates it to nothing, which very syllable, if rightly touched, shall, like the heightening stroke of lidit from a master's... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1873 - 936 pages
...to recognize the merit of Sandford's method, he had previously remarked, when upon Betterton, that " the voice of a singer is not more strictly tied to...tune than that of an actor in theatrical elocution," and he urged Mrs. Pritchard, when playing Lady Constance, " to tone her words," as we know from Davies.... | |
 | Henry Barton Baker - 1878 - 428 pages
...school — as may be gathered from Gibber's definition of perfect acting in the following passage. " The voice of a singer is not more strictly tied to...dwelt upon in a period, depreciates it to nothing ; which every syllable, if rightly touched, THE ARTIFICIAL AND THE NATURAL SCHOOL. 71 shall, like the... | |
 | J. Keith Angus - 1880 - 216 pages
...sound depends their greatest beauty or inaffection. The voice of a singer is not more strictly ty'd to time and tune, than that of an actor in theatrical elocution. The last syllable too long, or too slightly dwelt upon in a period, depreciates it to nothing ; which very... | |
 | Thomas Betterton - 1888 - 176 pages
...observations upon action tend, you will give me leave, under his character, to enlarge upon that head. In the just delivery of poetical numbers, particularly...dwelt upon, in a period, depreciates it to nothing : which very syllable if rightly touched, shall, like the heightening stroke of light from a master's... | |
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