I was at first Bob Acres, with an Irishman of the name of Torrens for my Sir Lucius, which he acted, when we could succeed in keeping him sober, to the life.

My Bob Acres was not much of a success.

And I subsequently took Sir Anthony, which remained my stock part for years, and which I was considered to do well.
Sir Francis Vincent, a resident in Florence for many years, with whom I was for several of them very intimate, played the ungrateful part of Falkland.

He was a heavy actor with fairly good elocution and delivery, and not unfitted for a part which it might have been difficult to fill without him.

He was to a great degree a reading man, and had a considerable knowledge of the byeways of Florentine history.
My mother "brought the house down" nightly as Mrs.Malaprop; and a very exceptionally beautiful Madame de Parcieu (an Englishwoman married to a Frenchman) was in appearance, _maniere d'etre_, and deportment the veritable _beau ideal_ of Lydia Languish, and might have made _a furore_ on any stage, if it had been possible to induce her to raise her voice sufficiently.