Macready as I Knew Him (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Macready as I Knew Him Macready, the famous tragedian, was an exceptional man, and one of the most interesting I have ever come across. The enthusiasm which the passion and poetry of his acting excited suffered no diminution by personal acquaintance. His thought went deep; he was imaginative; he was humorous, and he had an uncommon amount of sensibility combined with a constant urgent desire to be good and to do good. This very desire, at war perhaps with the circumstances of his professional. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.