Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York, Fowler and Wells · leaf 527
patient and plodding,he moved when he felt compelled to move; but when he spoke,the very earth resounded with the echoes of his voice. Wasit not his magnetism that stirred the heart of the nation andawoke the first war-cry of the Revolution? Though othersthought, wrote, and worked, it was the words… … Figs. 73.: to 714. George F. Cooke, one of the greatesttragedians of the eighteenth century, wasborn in Westminster, April 17, 1756; diedin New York city in 1812., Edmund Kean, unsurpassed in tragedy,was horn in London, March 17, 1790 ; diedthere May 15, 1833. Edwin Forrest, one of the most…
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