 We object particularly to his varying the original action in the dying scene. He at first held out his hands in a way which can only be conceived by those who saw him — in motionless despair, : — or as if there were some preternatural power in the...  All the Year Round - Pagina 353editat de - 1872Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 282 pagini
...motionless despair — or as if there were some preternatural power in the mere manifestation of his will : he now actually fights with his doubled fists, after...sword is taken from him, like some helpless infant. We have been quite satisfied with the attempts we have seen to ape Mr. Kean in this part, without wishing... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1851 - 360 pagini
...despair, : — or as if there were some preternatural power in the mere manifestation of his will : — he now actually fights with his doubled fists, after...sword is taken from him, like some helpless infant. We have been quite satisfied with the attempts we have seen to ape Mr. Kean in this part, without wishing... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1851 - 364 pagini
...despair, — or as if there were some preternatural power in the mere manifestation of his will: — he now actually fights with his doubled fists, after...sword is taken from him, like some helpless infant. We have been quite satisfied with the attempts we have seen to ape Mr. Kean in this part, without wishing... | |
 | Dutton Cook - 1876 - 348 pagini
...identified himself with the character he represented as to decline to yield upon almost any terms. Hazlitt censures certain excesses of this kind which...antagonist with renewed fury; his sword was struck from his grasp—he was mortally wounded; disdaining to fall"—and so on. No wonder that many Richmonds and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 624 pagini
...despair, — or as if there were some preternatural power in the mere manifestation of his will : — he now actually fights with his doubled fists, after...sword is taken from him, like some helpless infant. We have been quite satisfied with the attempts we have seen to ape Mr. Kean in this part, without wishing... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1906 - 426 pagini
...motionless despair, or as if there were some preternatural power in the mere manifestation of his will — he now actually fights with his doubled fists, after...sword is taken from him, like some helpless infant. We have been quite satisfied with the attempts we have seenjc^ape_ Mr. Kean in this part, without wishing... | |
 | Leeds Barroll - 2001 - 292 pagini
...motionless despair — or as if there were some preternatural power in the mere manifestation of his will: he now actually fights with his doubled fists, after his sword is taken from him, like some helpless infant."11 In performance, Kean's body became grotesque and disconcerting rather than heroically Romantic,... | |
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