...it seemed as if a whole century had been swept over in the space of a single scene ; old things wore done away, and a new order at once brought forward, bright and harmonious, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarisms and bigotry of a tasteless age too long attached...

...Heavens ! what a transition ! it seemed as if a " whole century had been stepped over in the passage of a single " scene; old things were done away, and...bright and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel tho " barbarisms of a tasteless age, too long superstitiously devoted to " the illusions of imposing...

...heavy-paced Horatio — heavens, what a transition ! — it seemed as if a whole century had been swept over in the transition of a single scene ; old things...and bigotry of a tasteless age, too long attached to prejudices of custom, and superstituously devoted to the illusions of imposing declamation. This heaven-born...

...heavy-paced Horatio — heavens, what a transition! — it seemed as if a whole century had been swept Over in the transition of a single scene; old things...bigotry .of a tasteless age, too long attached to prejudices of custom, and superstitiously devoted to the illusions of imposing declamation. This heaven-born...

...heavy-paced Horatio — heavens, what a transition! — it seemed as if a whole century had been swept over in the transition of a single scene; old things...and bigotry of a tasteless age, too long attached to prejudices of custom, and superstitiously devoted to the illusions of imposing declamation. This heaven-born...

...heavens, what a transition ! It seemed as if a whole century had been stepped over in the changing of a single scene — old things were done away, and a new order at once brought forward, light and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarisms and bigotry of a tasteless age too...

...muscle and in every feature, heavens, what a transition ! It seemed as if a whole century had been stept over in the transition of a single scene ; old things...and a new order at once brought forward, bright and himinous, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarisms and bigotry of a tasteless age, too long attached...

...famous dramatic duel in Rowe's ' Fair Penitent ' on those boards, and, in the words of a spectator, ' old things were done away, and a new order at once brought forward.' When Garrick became manager of Drury Lane, ' silver-tongued ' Barry was dividing popular suffrages...

...deliberation. "It seemed," wrote Cumberland, "as if a whole century had been stepped over in the passage of a single scene: old things were done away, and a new order was at once brought forth, bright and luminous." Macklin said that "in a half-dozen of characters the...

...changing of a single scene — old things were done away, and a new order at once brought forward, light and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarisms...custom, and superstitiously devoted to the illusions pf imposing declamation," No remark was ever more true than that Garrick " acted both on and off the...