...was a quality which appealed to Lamb. " In expressing slowness of apprehension this actor SUTpassed all others. You could see the first dawn of an idea...stealing slowly over his countenance, climbing up little by little with a powerful process till it cleared up at last to the fulness of a twilight conception...

...reader's sense of the complacent asininity of Sir Andrew — prototype of ignoramuses!— than these: "In expressing slowness of apprehension this actor...up at last to the fulness of a twilight conception — its highest meridan. He seemed to keep back his intellect, as some have had the power to retard...

...Old Actors' (London Magazine, February 1822), Charles Lamb gives a loving portrait of Dodd's powers: In expressing slowness of apprehension, this actor...painful process, till it cleared up at last to the fullness of a twilight conception - its highest meridian. He seemed to keep back his intellect, as...

...but Dodd was it, as it came out of Nature's hands. It might be said to remain in puris naturalibus. In expressing slowness of apprehension, this actor...up at last to the fulness of a twilight conception, — its highest meridian. He seemed to keep back his intellect, as some have had the power to retard...

...memorable piece of verbal description, Charles Lamb's account of James William Dodd as Sir Andrew: You could see the first dawn of an idea stealing slowly...up at last to the fulness of a twilight conception — its highest meridian ... A glimmer of understanding would appear in a corner of his eye, and for...

...perfect Aguecheek, you could see "the first dawn of an idea stealing slowly. . .climbing up little by little, with a painful process, till it cleared up at last to the fulness of a twilight conception — its highest meridian". Profoundly concerned as the dramatist must be with the eye of the spectator...

...but Dodd was it, as it came out of Nature's hands. It might be said to remain inpuris naturalibus. In expressing slowness of apprehension this actor...up at last to the fulness of a twilight conception — its highest meridian. He seemed to keep back his intellect, as some have had the power to retard...

...greatest advantage. We are irresistibly reminded of Charles Lamb's matchless criticism upon Dodd : ' In expressing slowness of apprehension this actor...it cleared up at last to the fulness of a twilight conception-—its highest meridian. He seemed to keep back his intellect, as some have had the power...

...and his Aguecheek—how racily! how tenderly drawn ! ' In expressing slowness of apprehension Dodd surpassed all others. You could see the first dawn...painful process, till it cleared up at last to the fullness of a twilight conception—its highest meridian. He seemed to keep back his intellect, as...

...and his Aguecheek — how racily ! how tenderly drawn ! ' In expressing slowness of apprehension Dodd surpassed all others. You could see the first dawn...painful process, till it cleared up at last to the fullness of a twilight conception — its highest meridian. He seemed to keep back his intellect, as...