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...night Madame Janauschek appeared as Lady Macbeth, her greatest impersonation. With the exception of a few peculiarities of pronunciation, which soon escape notice as the play proceeds, her conception and delivery of the part was beyond all criticism, and the character was represented with a force and impressiveness rarely seen. The support was unusually weak for the Globe, but may be accounted for by Mr. Sheridan's illness and the consequent changing of parts. Poor as it was, it hardly needs an apology, for it served as a dark background upon which Madame Janauschek's superb acting stood out with...
...full scope to Miss Mitchell's superior abilities as an actress. Mr. Shewell, another old Boston favorite, furnished a fine support as Lord Rochester, while the rest of the cast was very creditable. Taken as a whole, it was one of the finest pieces of acting we have ever seen at this theatre, and forms a vivid but not unpleasing contrast to the ghastly and sanguinary drama which has so lately held the boards there. This week Miss Mitchell has appeared as Fanchon, a character in which she has often before won great reputation, and which is too well known...
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...should put a decent amount of work upon Horace, and find no beauty in it, would, in my opinion, find none were it pointed out to him with ever so much care and repetition. And as to the beauty of expression, some of this must be seen in the anatomical dissection spoken of. But are we so in want of instruction in the beauty of expression of the old writers? Methinks I remember a classical course in my Freshman year, where it was considered that the "happy rendering of this" and the "humorous use of yap here" were quite sufficiently...
...recent chemistry lecture the professor succeeded in freezing water contained in a red-hot crucible, a feat which so charmed a certain Freshman that he was heard to exclaim: "How delightful to have such a man for my companion in the future life!" It will be seen at once that the Freshman atones for his irreverence in regard to the professor by the modest estimate of his own deserts...