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without knowing its meaning.—The difference of sex, of age, of situation, of time, of countries, of manners, and of customs, demand different modes of expression. What infinite pains and study must it not require to make an actor forget his own character; to identify himself with every personage he represents; to acquire the faculty of representing love, hatred, ambition, and every passion of which human nature is susceptible,—every shade, every gradation by which those sentiments are depictured with their full extent of colouring and expression.
There are no arts or professions but have certain defined principles.—Are there then none required to direct the
