wellnigh-tragic

Updated: May 13, 2025

And this is, more minutely than need have been, in authentic form only too diffuse, the once world-famous Warkotsch Tragedy or Wellnigh-Tragic Melodrama; which is still interesting and a matter of study, of pathos and minute controversy, to the patriot and antiquary in Prussian Countries, though here we might have been briefer about it.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20