110/116 387.] [Footnote 275: Johnson one day said to John Kemble: "Are you, sir, one of those enthusiasts who believe yourself transformed into the very character you represent ?" Kemble answered that he had never felt so strong a persuasion himself. 77.] [Footnote 276: Lessing makes this a starting-point of his criticism of the art of acting, though he uses it less absolutely than Diderot would do._Hamburg.Dramaturgie_, Sec. |