 A happy ending! — as if the living martyrdom that Lear had gone through, — the flaying of his feelings alive, did not make a fair dismissal from the stage of life the only decorous thing for him. If he is to live and be happy after, if he could sustain...  Charles Lamb - Seite 181von Alfred Ainger - 1882 - 186 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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...getting his gilt robes and sceptre again could tempt him to act over again his misused station—as if, at his years, and with his experience, anything was left but to die.'—Works (1818), vol. ii. p. 13. The whole of this essay, and that ' On the Artificial Comedy... | |
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