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But a mannerism which does not sit easy on the mannerist, which has been adopted on principle, and which can be sustained only by constant effort, is always offensive. And such is the mannerism of Johnson. The characteristic faults of his style are so familiar to all our readers, and have been so often burlesqued, that it is almost superfluous to point them out.
The composer of the third act of 'Faust' could hardly fail to be attracted by 'Romeo and Juliet. Nevertheless Gounod was too pronounced a mannerist to do justice to Shakespeare's immortal love-story.
For instance, if he had said Reynolds was the first of painters, he was capable enough of giving up, as objections might happen to be severally made, first his outline, then the grace in form, then the colouring, and lastly, to have owned that he was such a mannerist, that the disposition of his pictures was all alike.
The circumstance of the moment adroitly seized, and related in some well-turned stanzas, interspersed with dialogue, is sufficient to insure the success of a new piece, especially if adapted to the abilities of the respective performers. Among them, HENRY would shine in the parts of lovers, were he less of a mannerist. JULIEN may be quoted as an excellent imitator of the beaux of the day.
As a singer, Madame Scio is a valuable acquisition to this theatre. In point of person, she is neither ordinary nor handsome. Mademoiselle LESAGE. Her singing is chaste, but destitute of that musical energy which distinguishes great singers. She plays les ingenuites or innocent characters; but is rather a mannerist, instead of being childish.
Some of our living novelists have a limited list of characters; they have half a dozen types which we recognize as inevitably as we do the face and voice of an actor in the king, the lover, the priest, or the bandit: but Cooper is not a mere mannerist, perpetually copying from himself.
He crams this part, and starves that other part, consulting not the fitness of the thing, but his fitness and strength. But Shakspeare has no peculiarity, no importunate topic; but all is duly given; no veins, no curiosities: no cow-painter, no bird-fancier, no mannerist is he: he has no discoverable egotism: the great he tells greatly; the small, subordinately.
The stylist is occupied with the impression which certain things have made upon him; the mannerist is wholly concerned with the impression he shall make on others. But there are also two kinds of imagination, or rather two ways in which imagination may display itself as an active power or as a passive quality of the mind.
If the advice is followed, as it too often is literally, the consequence must be an offensive mannerism; for, if repeating himself makes an artist a mannerist, he is still more likely to become one if he repeat another. There is but one model that will not lead him astray, which is Nature: we do not mean what is merely obvious to the senses, but whatever is so acknowledged by the mind.
He crams this part and starves that other part, consulting not the fitness of the thing, but his fitness and strength. But Shakspeare has no peculiarity, no importunate topic; but all is duly given; no veins, no curiosities; no cow-painter, no bird-fancier, no mannerist is he; he has no discoverable egotism: the great he tells greatly; the small, subordinately.
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