[Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay by George Otto Trevelyan]@TWC D-Link bookLife and Letters of Lord Macaulay CHAPTER III 67/82
I can conceive that Garrick may have been like him. I have seen several pictures of Garrick, none resembling another, and I have heard Hannah More speak of the extraordinary variety of countenance by which he was distinguished, and of the unequalled radiance and penetration of his eye.
The voice and delivery of Jeffrey resemble his face.
He possesses considerable power of mimicry, and rarely tells a story without imitating several different accents.
His familiar tone, his declamatory tone, and his pathetic tone are quite different things. Sometimes Scotch predominates in his pronunciation; sometimes it is imperceptible.
Sometimes his utterance is snappish and quick to the last degree; sometimes it is remarkable for rotundity and mellowness.
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