conceiver

Updated: May 14, 2025

If the combination of qualities necessary to form a first-rate dramatic poet is thus rare, hardly less wonderful is the effort of genius to sustain the character of a great actor. The mind of the performer must be sympathetic with that of the author; it must be cast in the same mould with the original conceiver of the piece.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846