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 - Pàgina 181per Alfred Ainger - 1882 - 186 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Charles Lamb - 1904 - 460 pàgines
...he could sustain this world's burden after, why all this pudder and preparation, — why tor20 ment us with all this unnecessary sympathy? As if the childish...with his experience, anything was left but to die. Lear is essentially impossible to be represented on a stage. 25 But how many dramatic personages are... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1906 - 214 pàgines
...alone can satisfy our sense of the fitness of things. As Charles Lamb has put it with admirable force: "A happy ending! — as if the living martyrdom that...with his experience, anything was left but to die." i^But, it may be asked, does this ending, which is in accordance with artistic necessity, entirely... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1904 - 220 pàgines
...his followers, the showmen of scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily. A happy ending 1— as if the living martyrdom that Lear had gone through,...with his experience, anything was left but to die. - CHARLBS LAMB. ^HARVA UNIVERSITY Preface. The Karly Kditlons. Two quarto editions of King Lear appeared... | |
| William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 pàgines
...he is to live and be happy after, if he could sustain this world's burden after, why all this putter and preparation, — why torment us with all this...with his experience, anything was left but to die. Lear is essentially impossible to be represented on a stage. But how many dramatic personages are there... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1908 - 324 pàgines
...beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show; it is too hard and stony; it must have love scenes and a happy ending, It is not enough that Cordelia...with his experience, anything was left but to die." THE TIME-ANALYSIS OF THE PLAY This is summed up by Mr. PA Daniel, in his paper " On the Times or Durations... | |
| WILLIAM J. ROLFE - 1908 - 328 pàgines
...after, if he could sustain this world's burden after, why all this pudder and preparation, — wl1y torment us with all this unnecessary sympathy? As...with his experience, anything was left but to die.' " * L1ST OK CHARACTERS 1N THE PLAY, W1TH THE SCENES 1N WH1CH THEY APPEAR, ETC.- — The numbers in... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1908 - 388 pàgines
...alive, did not make a fair dismissal from the stage of life the only decorous thing for him. . . . As if the childish pleasure of getting his gilt robes...with his experience, anything was left but to die." If it be pessimism to own that old age must end in death, and that there are some calamities which... | |
| SIR PHILIP SIDNEY TO MACAULAY - 1910 - 474 pàgines
...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. Lear is essentially impossible to be represented on a stage. But how many dramatic personages are there... | |
| University of Wisconsin. Department of English - 1916 - 312 pàgines
...What gesture shall we appropriate to this? What has the voice or the eye to do with such things? .... A happy ending! — as if the living martyrdom that...with his experience, anything was left but to die." Those who have passed judgment upon Lamb's criticism have not failed — with the exception of Swinburne... | |
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