Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1825-01-18

leon many warnings. At the last moment would
have rcteated, n could have done So. called
to mind Il friend of mime. who had married young,
heo utitul, aud rich girl, and was miserable. lie
h." strongly urged me aSains, putting my neck in
the same yoke; aud to show you how firmly was
resolved To attend to his advice, betted Hay fifty
guineaS To one, that should always remain single
six years afterwards | scut him the money The
day before proposed to Lady Byron, had no idea
of doiny So"
The psychologists tell me that other lines be-
SIDES that OF thought, lthc mdlle of three horizon
tai lines on his fohead, ON which he pridcd him
Self) are strongly developed in the hiuder part of
my Uranium; particularly that called philoproscui-
tiveness suppose, too, the puenaciouS bImp
might be found somewhere, because my uncle had
it,"
Like Napoleon, have always had a great con-
, tempt ior women; and formed this opiuiou OF them
not hastily, bat from my own fatal experience. My
writings, indeed, tend cXat the sex: and my
imagination has delighted in giving them Il bean
t6edt likeness, but ouly drew them as painter or
statuary would do--as they should be. Perhaps
my prejudiceS, and keeping them at distance, con-
tributed to prevent the illusion flom altogether
being worn out and destroyed to the celestial
qualities.
They in am unnatural state OF society The
Turks aud Eastern people manage these matters
! better than we do. They lock them up, and they
are much happier. Give Il woman looking glass
and few sugar pluns, aud she will be satisfied"
Discussing the dteren, actors of the day. he said.
"Dowton, who hated kCan. used to say that his
Othello reminded him of Obi, or Three fingered
Jack--not Othello. But, whatever his Othcllo
might have been, Garick himself never surpassed
him i'll lago. am told that ktan is not SD great
Il favorite with the public since his return to Anne
rica, and that party strengthened against him ip
his absence. guess he could not have stad long
enough to be spoiled; though calculate actor is
improved by their stage. How dc you recton2
"kcan began by acting Richard the Third when
quite boy, and gave all the promise of what
| he afterwards became. Ills Sir Giles Cvcrreach
was a wonderful performance. Fhe actresses were
AFRAID OF him; and me was Afterwards much
hauSted himself that he fell into fits. This, / am
told, was the case with Miss O'Neil.
| "kemhle did much towards the reform of our
| stage. Classical costume almost unkuowribe-
fore he undertook to revise the dresses. Gauick
used tn act Othello in red coat and cpaulcts and
other characters had prescrptve habits equally ri
dicuIouS. can conceive nothing equal To Kem-
! bies Corolanus: and he locked the Roman so
well, that even Cato" cold and SiiiiiA as it is.
had run That shows what an actor can 10 for
play! Il he had acted ''hIaiuo Falero its fate
would have been very different
| "hembie pronounced several words afectedly,
winch should be cautiously avoided ON the stage.
1t is nothing that Campbell writes it Scp,tlcire in
"Hohenlimden.' The Greek derivation is much
against ms pronunciation of dchC"
| He now began TO mimic kcmbies voice and man
nHr OF spouting, and initiated him inimitably in
Prospero's lines:
"'Hea the great globe itself, it shall dissolve,
land, like the Juseess fabric OF vision.
"'Leave not a rack behind"
"Nhem half seas over, Kemble used to sneak in
| blank verse: and with practice, don't think il
would be difficult. Good proc resolves itself into
blank verse Why should we not be able to I'M
Provise IN hexametcrs, as we'll rs the Italians
Theodore Hook is an mprovisatore"
! Mrs. Siddons," continued Lord Byron. swas
the 6ta't deai OF acting; Miss O'Neil | would not
so tn see, for fear of weakening the impression
made by the queen of tragcdians. When | read
| lady Macbeths part, have Mrs. Sildons before
me- and imagination even supplies her voice whose
tones were superluman, and power over the heart
| supernatural.
ut is pleasant enough sometimes to take peep
behind as well as 10 look before the scenes.
! Il remember one leg of elephant saying to
anothe Oh your eyes, move a little quicker"
and o. ring at the Opera two people in love
who We =" 5 ditra'tS that they made The responses
Ebttwecn the intervals OF the Yecitation instead OF
during the recitation itself One said to the other
"Do you love me-" then came the flourish Emusic
ana the reply sweetcr than the music, sCan you
doubt it,"