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Would they have us wait till the whole tragicomedy of 1827 has been acted over again? till they have been brought into office by a cry of 'No Reform, to be reformers, as they were once before brought into office by a cry of 'No Popery, to be emancipators? Have they obliterated from their minds gladly, perhaps, would some among them obliterate from their minds the transactions of that year?
The concealment, innocent as it seems, was the first step in the second tragicomedy of John's existence. Meanwhile he had never written home.
"That, ma'am," answered Mr. Caryll very gravely, "I wait to learn from my brother here." For a spell there was utter silence in that spacious, pillared chamber. Mr. Caryll and her ladyship had both resumed their chairs: the former spuriously calm; the latter making no attempt to conceal her agitation. Hortensia leant forward, an eager spectator, watching the three actors in this tragicomedy.
But if there were elements of tragicomedy in the Ibsen idolatry, there were far more important elements of vigorous and wholesome intellectual independence; and it was during this period of Ibsen's almost hectic popularity that the foundations of a new fiction and a new drama were laid in Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
The concealment, innocent as it seems, was the first step in the second tragicomedy of John's existence. Meanwhile, he had never written home.
FRANCIS. Ho! ho! let that be my care! Take this packet. There you will find your commission set forth at large; and documents, to boot, which shall convince the most incredulous. Only make haste to get away unobserved. Slip through the back gate into the yard, and then scale the garden wall. The denouement of this tragicomedy you may leave to me!
Emerging truly exhausted, he fell to his knees, then sorrowfully held and reassured his unspeaking friend. He lay down in the sand like an animal. And slept. That night, wrapped in the tragicomedy of human pride and affection, none of the three found peace. For Sylviana the evening seemed endless, trying to drag conversation from the tired and otherwise absorbed company.
Cintio had taken it for the subject of a romance. Whetstone had made out of Cintio's narrative the rude play of Promos and Cassandra; and Shakspeare had borrowed from Whetstone the plot of the noble tragicomedy of Measure for Measure. As Kirke was not the first so he was not the last, to whom this excess of wickedness was popularly imputed.
Yes, Ernest: the contemplative life, the life that has for its aim not DOING but BEING, and not BEING merely, but BECOMING that is what the critical spirit can give us. The gods live thus: either brooding over their own perfection, as Aristotle tells us, or, as Epicurus fancied, watching with the calm eyes of the spectator the tragicomedy of the world that they have made.
Not yours. Another woman's. Ha! Blind that I was now I have it! So that is why you are running away. They threatened to drag Alec headlong from the throne unless you agreed. My poor girl, you might have told me sooner. The knowledge has been here, lurking in the back of my head for years; but I never gave a thought to it. Why should I? Who would have dreamed of such a tragicomedy?
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