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Figure 3 “Mrs Siddons as Lady Macbeth,” engraving based on an 1800 painting by Richard Westall for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery. Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library

It seemed almost as if a being of a superior order had dropped from a higher sphere to awe the world with the majesty of her appearance. Power was seated on her brow, passion emanated from her breast as from a shrine; she was tragedy personified.

(1817:21–22)

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