It requires much imagination and great generosity on the part of the public to accept a tenor, whose waist-girth would not unfit him for the part of Sir John falstaff, as a youthful and romantic Romeo, or a half-starved and emaciated Rodolphe.
"Style in Singing"
W. E. Haslam
But the portrayals of Sancho Panza, falstaff and Parson Adams are poems.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
I am going out of town on Monday, June 1st, to a little old-fashioned house I have at Gad's Hill, by Rochester, on the identical spot where falstaff ran away, and as you are so kind as to ask me to propose a day for coming to Richmond, I should very much like to do so either on Saturday the 30th of this month or on Sunday the 31st.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond