Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . part differed from her later view of it,but all that we are sure of is that she pleasedthe audience, the managers and the membersof the company on both occasions. Clappspeaks especially of the way in which MissCushmans voice was saturated with anguish in this part during the soliloquy near the openingof the second scene of the third act; — Noughts had, alls our desire is got without content:Tis safer to be that which we destroyThan by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. The words, he
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . part differed from her later view of it,but all that we are sure of is that she pleasedthe audience, the managers and the membersof the company on both occasions. Clappspeaks especially of the way in which MissCushmans voice was saturated with anguish in this part during the soliloquy near the openingof the second scene of the third act; — Noughts had, alls our desire is got without content:Tis safer to be that which we destroyThan by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. The words, he says, were accompanied by thewringing of her hands; and through the firstcouplet, as she gave it, the listener was madeto gaze into the depths of a soul, soon to enterthe night of madness, already enduring thetorments of hell. Yet this Lady Macbeth was a gaunt, stockily-built woman of nearly sixty in the throes of amortal disease! Her return to the stage and tothe readings which marked her later life wereby the advice of her physicians, who thoughtshe might so bear with less anguish (her mind.
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