 | Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 pàgines
...decorous thing for him. If he is to live and be happy after, if he could sustain this world's burden after, why all this pudder and preparation, — why...with his experience, any thing was left but to die. Lear is essentially impossible to be represented on a stage. But how many dramatic personages are there... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pàgines
...happy after, if he could sustain this world's burden after, why all this pudder and preparation—why torment us with all this unnecessary sympathy ? As...again could tempt him to act over again his misused station,—as if at his years and with his experience, any thing was left but to die/'* Four things... | |
 | 1833 - 1006 pàgines
...this unnecessary sympathy ? As if the childish pleasure of getting his gilt robes and sceptre agam could tempt him to act over again his misused station...with his experience, any thing was left but to die!" Characters of the Affections ! Hcrmione, Imogen, Desdemona, and Cordelia ! Farewell. May we now be... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 pàgines
...decorous thing for him. If he is to live and be happy after, if he could sustain this world's burden after, why all this pudder and preparation, — why...with his experience,- any thing was left but to die. . Lear is essentially impossible to he represented on a stage. But how many dramatic personages are... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 pàgines
...decorous thing for him. If he is to live and be happy after, if he could sustain this world's burden after, why all this pudder and preparation — why...at his years and with his experience, any thing was lefi but to die."* Four things have struck us in reading LEAR : 1. That poetry i? an interesting study,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 552 pàgines
...is to live and be happy after, if he could sustain this world's burden after, why all this puclder and preparation — why torment us with all this unnecessary...with his experience, any thing was left but to die."* Four things have struck us in reading LEAR: 1. That" poetry is an interesting study, for this reason,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pàgines
...decorous thing for him. If he is to Jive and be happy after, if he could sustain this world's burden after, why all this pudder and preparation — why...again could tempt him to act over again his misused staf tion, — as if at his years and with his experience, any thing was left but to die."* Four things... | |
 | 1821 - 420 pàgines
...decorous thing for him. If he is to live and be happy after, if he could sustain this world's burden after, why all this pudder and preparation, — why...misused station, — as if at his years, and with bis experience, any thing was Left but to die." Is not this true ? and yet Dr. Johnson upholds the... | |
 | John Iliff Wilson - 1821 - 348 pàgines
...decorous thing for him. If he is to live and be happy after, if he could sustain this world's burden after, why all this pudder and preparation, — why...again could tempt him to act over again his misused station,—as if at his years, and with his experience, any thing was left but to die. "With the Letters... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1822 - 430 pàgines
...after, why all this pudder and preparation, — why torment us with all this unnecessary sympathy r as if the childish pleasure of getting his gilt robes...with his experience, any thing was left but to die." Is not this true ? and yet Dr. Johnson upholds the profanation of Tate for reasons that are really... | |
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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... 
