Mr Kemblesacrificestoomuchto decorum.He ischiefly afraid of being contaminated by too close an identity with the character herepresents.This isthegreatest vice in an actor, who ought never to bilk his part.

-Hazlitt,William
  Of  John Philip Kemble's performance as Sir Giles Overreach in Massinger's  A New Way to Pay Old Debts. In The Examiner, 5 May.