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...of the mechanical amusement of crumbling bread to fishes. “This is how the drama was disclosed of this second inner life, so deeply ravaged and storm-... ...ing explained, seemed to me more obscure than ever. I foresaw some strange drama indeed, for I understood that there could be no vulgar difference bet... ...ied them away, he finished his story with this revelation:— “ ‘This is the drama of my soul, but it is not the actual living drama which is at this mo... ...al living drama which is at this moment being acted in Paris! The interior drama interests nobody. I know it; and you will one day admit that it is so... ...y life is a continual paroxysm of fears, joy, and dejection. “ ‘ As to the drama—it is this. You imagine that I am occu- 32 Honorine pied with the Co... ... awake, one in the hope, the other in agonizing dread of reunion. The real dramas of life are not in circumstances, but in feelings; they are played i...

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...heck, during this very mass of thanksgiving, the most intimately thrilling drama that ever set a man’s heart beating opened out widely before him. The... ...ly true in a more restricted sphere in the detached scenes of the national drama known as the Man- 33 Balzac ners of the Age. At the beginning of tha...

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...life he meant to dedicate himself to the intense cultivation of the tragic drama. He got to work instantly; and very soon he had composed the first ac... ... to the progress of the war, which else tended to the monotonous. It was a dramatic artifice for sustaining the interest, where the incidents might ha... ... sense, was it possible (except in the spirit of a German sentimentalizing drama) to pardon a conspicuous, and within certain limits a very influ- ent... ...ly been concerned, either as witness or as a principal party in its little drama, than the early breakfast on a win- try morning long before the darkn... ...294 Thomas de Quincey witted young Irish woman in possession of our little drama and the several parts we were playing. T o look was to under- stand, ...

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... and Life Death. The Spanish poet Calderon made it the theme of two sacred dramas, in which the lesson of Faith, not Sight, was taught, with special r...

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...s hath the air? This limitless hyperbole Each one of us shall be; ’T is drama, if (hypothesis) It be not tragedy! 229 CI SHE ...

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... De Quincey. And we can take our pleasure in the skillful unfolding of the dramatic narrative of the Tartar Flight—we can feel the author’s joy in the... ...y be supposed to have an advan- tage for the purposes of the critic or the dramatic reporter. But the critic or reporter is a rarity. For most people,... ... at last I was obliged to tell him a very fine story from one of our elder dramatists: viz., that once, in some far Oriental kingdom, when the sultan ... ...ries of battles and endless skirmishes take their stations as parts in one drama. The graves that had closed sixty years ago seemed to fly open in sym... ...ht upon Joanna’s mind, but her own age as one section in a vast mysterious drama, unweaving through a century back, and drawing nearer continually to ... ...HIN ME: Cf. Luke xxiv. 32. 14 32 A VERY FINE STORY FROM ONE OF OUR EL- DER DRAMATISTS: The dramatist in question has not been identified. I am indebte...

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...—reads vilely; and Mrs. -, who is so celebrated, can read nothing well but dramatic compositions: Milton she cannot read sufferably. People in general... ...yet I do not remember that any poet is re- corded to have done, except the dramatist Shadwell; and in ancient days Homer is I think rightly reputed to... ...om—a battle, a strife, an agony, was conducting, was evolving like a great drama or piece of music, with which my sympathy was the more insupportable ... ...f the most beautiful exhibitions of the domestic affections which even the dramas of Euripides can furnish. To the English reader it may be necessary ... ...reader it may be necessary to say that the situation at the opening of the drama is that of a brother attended only by his sister during the demoniaca...

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...e at all. Little he cared! All was one to him so long as he was amused, and I never knew any one amused more easily. He was thrillingly interested in ... ...red panel. And accord- ingly, but now at a more decent pace, we proceeded on our way to Archdeacon Clitheroe’s, Missy’s gratitude and admiration were ...