Word: think
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Boston Theatre.Miss Neilson made her first appearance in Boston, on Monday night, in Romeo and Juliet. We have never before seen this part performed by an actress of great ability, and thus we lack anything with which to compare Miss Neilson's impersonation; but, judging it by itself, we think that it proves the lady to possess, not great genius, surely, but the highest talent. This, combined with her undeniable beauty of person, renders us loath to criticise. Her comedy in the first three acts was brilliant, but not wonderful; her tragedy in the last two acts simply magnificent...
...Wheelock, as Romeo, was tolerable. Tybalt and Paris were as amusing as usual. The scenery used was the same old set, which the management of this theatre think the correct thing for every play, except the "Black Crook" and "Streets of New York...
...though I shall always maintain that they were very strong. To tell the truth, the Goody did say something the next morning about "thim nasty empty bottles" - "nasty" to her, I fear, because they were empty - and the broken glass trodden into the carpet. And as I think the matter over, I remember that Jones said something about its not being right to allow somebody to go to bed alone; that somebody chased Jones around the room, and finally threw a boot at his head as he disappeared through the door. All this is a little misty; but what followed...
...Most of them are very good, particularly Leonidas and the Conceited Pedler, the latter having the "conceit taken out of him" in a very ingenious and amusing way. The poems, with which the book is interspersed, are by no means as good as the stories, and they bear, we think, a too loose resemblance to some of those in Through the Looking-glass. Mr. Barlow's French Exercise, too, is very like that of the German Professor in our author's More Happy Thoughts, but, as it is short and funny, the repetition may be excused...