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Thomas Campbell: The popularity of...

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The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

Source: Life of Mrs. Siddons, ch. 18, 1834.
-- Thomas Campbell, (Jul 27 1777-1844), Scotish poet; He is remembered chiefly for his sentimental and martial lyrics; he was one of the initiators of a plan to found what became the University of London.


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