Helena Faucit (Lady Martin) . his very opulenceof aesthetic capacity in her was apt to disconcert me in my desiredstudies. For example, when forcibly struck with the artisticcompleteness of some momentary pose or action, and its capabilityof being reproduced and perpetuated, without any change, in theart of design, but by reason of its transientness difficult to seizeand fix in the memory, I ardently hoped to see it repeated ona future occasion. Herein I was doomed to took its place was doubtless equally appropriate and efiec-tive in its way, only it may have chanced to lac
Helena Faucit (Lady Martin) . his very opulenceof aesthetic capacity in her was apt to disconcert me in my desiredstudies. For example, when forcibly struck with the artisticcompleteness of some momentary pose or action, and its capabilityof being reproduced and perpetuated, without any change, in theart of design, but by reason of its transientness difficult to seizeand fix in the memory, I ardently hoped to see it repeated ona future occasion. Herein I was doomed to took its place was doubtless equally appropriate and efiec-tive in its way, only it may have chanced to lack just that happyformative character, that completeness of motif which had sosurprised and charmed me in the first instance. What is here noted of the infinite variety of movement andexpression in Miss Faucits Antigone was equally to be found inevery part she played. However often one may have seen herin a character, its treatment always seemed the result of a freshinspiration. The general outline might be—was, indeed—the. FURTHER REMARKS ON HER ANTIGONE. 153 same, but there was constant variety in the details. Of whatthese were, and how they arose, she was herself unconscious. I had myself the good fortune to see Antigone in Dublin. Theplay was admirably put upon the stage, which was large enoughto admit of an adequate representation of a Greek stage. In anarticle, which I was urged by Dr Stokes to write for the DublinUniversity Magazine, upon Acting as one of the Fine Arts, Irecorded thus the impression made upon me at the time :— The great actresss versatility is not confined to the romantic Antigone stands out in the roll of her triumphs, simple and majesticin severe beauty—consummate in its kind, as her Imogen or Constance, butthat kind, how different! Here, twenty-three centuries after the poet whoconceived it has gone to his rest, it is presented to ua fresh and beautiful,like some magnificent statue dug up from the ruins of Time, perfect as when
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