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    of salutation , of his wife , mother , and child . The mournful tenderness of affection , after kissing the cheek of Virgilia , while he clasped her neck , and murmured , but so distinctly , ' Now by the jealous queen of heaven , that kiss I carried from thee , dear ; and my true lip Hath virgin'd it e ' er since , '

    must have dropped into the heart of every one who heard the words , Then kneeling to his mother , in a deeper tone of reverence , touched by sorrow , c Sink , my knee , i' the earth ; Of thy deep duty more impression show Than that of common sons . '

    And the beauty of the grief-fuljoy , in speaking to his child , each was so admirably marked by a difference of feeling , yet each bore affection ' s tinge of affinity . The unbreathing silence of the audience acknowledged the actor ' s power . ' This is beauty ; beauty which we cannot applaud with our hands : the throbs of the heart , the filling eye , and the quivering lip , are all we can give to its praise . '

    Space will not allow me to dwell on the agitating conflict of emotions which shook and writhed the actor ' s frame , and place him , in such powers , far above any one I have ever looked upon , and I have looked on many . I have been enchained and bowed down in almost an agony of delight by some ; but what a rending of the spirit was pictured with thope words , * Pity me , generous Volscians ! ye are men , ' &c .

    Silence was the actor ' s triumph ! And with all the recollections of Kemble in c Measureless liar V &c . and the sudden and violent transition to c Cut me to pieces , ' &c . and as suddenly in the bursting forth of the volcanic fire , 'If you have writ your annals true , ' &c .

    I do conceive it impossible for any man who permits himself to think , his feelings to sway , or his justice to plead , to hesitate in saying , no Coriolanus that has yet been seen made so sublime an exit . * There is one point on which I feel as assured as it is possible for reasoning from causes and a knowledge of men's character to enable me to be . This it is : many of those who have now so religious a

    veneration for Kemble ' s talents that they will admit no light which may cast a shadow on their worship , no reason that may shake their faith , would not , if Macready had preceded him , tolerate Kemble through one act , After the satisfaction of feasting their eyes on his noble figure , and his Btateliness of demeanour , and physical splendour of movement , ( which I will venture to tell them , and the world too , were oftentimes made paramount to truth , nature , and passion , ) they would very speedily discover

    * On the following Friday Coriolanus was repeated , to a poorer house than the poor one on Monday . It may astonish you , reader , to be'told that if the theatre were deserted entirely when Macready plays in Shakupeare ' s dramas , it would not prove a tittle of evidence that Macready is not , and by far , the bent actor of the nineteenth century . I will tell you why ' he does not draw / in a future note , and it will be new astonishment to you .

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    80 Notes on the Newspapers .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1834, page 80, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2629/page/82/