...whether as the pleased, the grieved, the pitying, the reproachful, or the angry. One would be almost tempted to borrow the aid of a very bold figure, and to express this excellency the more significantly, by permission to affirm that the Blind might have seen him in his...

...from eighteen to twenty rounds of applause every evening. The same writer says of this great actor " that the blind might have seen him in his voice, and the deaf have heard him in his visage." Booth was great in Othello, and he once played Falstaff before Queen Anne. Wilks surpassed him as Dicky...

...whether as the pleased, the grieved, the pitying, the reproachful, or the angry. One would be almost tempted to borrow the aid of a very bold figure, and to express his excellency more significantly, by permission to affirm that the blind might have seen him in his...

...whether as the pleased, the grieved, the pitying, the reproachful, or the angry. One would be almost tempted to borrow the aid of a very bold figure, and to express this excellency the more significantly, by permission to affirm, that the Blind might have seen him in his...

...His dramatic effects sprung more from intuition than from study ; and, as was said of Barton Booth, " the blind might have seen him in his voice, and the deaf have heard him in his visage." Although only a half-brother, he seemed like a father to me, and there was a deep and strange affection...

...and to express this excellency the more significantly, by permission to affirm that the Blind miyht have seen him in his voice, and the Deaf have heard him in his visage." In his later years, says a critic, " his merit as an actor was unrivalled, and even so extraordinary,...

...of the heart will always treasure. It was said by the poet Aaron Hill, in allusion to Barton Booth, that the blind might have seen him in his voice and the deaf might have heard him in his visage. Such a statement made concerning an actor now would be deemed extravagant....

...the abilities of Booth as an actor were of a very high class, no one who ever saw him can dispute. " The blind might have seen him in his voice, and the deaf have heard him in his face," was said of him, and finely said, by my friend Aaron Hill. Can a greater eulogium be passed...

...sounds as many resplendent notes of gloom and tragic import as the loftiest talent only could reveal. " The blind might have seen him in his voice and the deaf heard him in his visage." In "Castle Sombras" Mansfield gives a moment to music. In a medieval niche...

...elocution was of the ore rotunda order, admirably adapted to the stately lines of Cato. It was said of him that " the blind might have seen him in his voice and the deaf have heard him in his visage." All the leading statesmen of the time, the ministry, with Bolingbroke and Harley at their head on the...