The company at large did not distinguish themselves.

Macduff, to the huge delight of the gallery, out-Macduff'd the average ranter.

The lady who filled the principal female part has done better on other occasions, but I fear she has not metal for what she tried last week.

Not to succeed in the sleep-walking scene is to make a memorable failure.

As it was given, it succeeded in being wrong in art without being true to nature.
And there is yet another difficulty, happily easy to reform, which somewhat interfered with the success of the performance.