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I'll suck the madness out ofevery pore , So as I drink it boiling from thy 'wound Death will be pleasant . Let me have the hand , And I will treat it like another heart . ; , ? • jffisperus . Here ' tis then ! [ Stabs Tier-£ hall i thrust deeper yet ?
* Fiwihel . Quite through my soul ! That all my senses , deadened at the blow , May never know the giver . Oh , my love , Some spirit in thy sleep hath stole thy body And filled it to the brim with cruelty ! Farewell , and may no busy deathful tongue Whisper this horror in thy waking ears , Lest some dread desperate sorrow urge thy soul To cfeeds of wickedness . Whose kiss is that ?
IBS hps are ice . Oh , my loved Hesperus , Help !"— [ Dies . —pp . 68 , 73 . Tla e exceeding tenderness of this whole speech needs no comment , but there are some points about it which should be especially noticed . The love , stronger than , death * blotting out
the memory of evil in the object beloved , and carrying back the i mag ination to former feelings of trust in him ; the fancy that the present suffering is inflicted by some other agency , and the appeal to her murderer to save her ; form an amount of pathos and beauty sufficient to prove that excellence of creative power is within the reach of the mind that conceived it .
We feel disinclined for further quotation after this scene , which occurs in the third act . Floribel is the only great character in the drama ; great in her gentleness , from her unity of purpose and strength of affection . With her the interest falls . Here is the errprm the plan of the tragedy . The hero of a tragedy
should ; $ ever be a weak character . We ear& not enough for He $ j } ery $ to follow his fate with an interest proportioned to the emqt ^ ioft already excited . The action goes on to his marriage with Olivi q * the discovery of his crime ; his condemnation to death ; ai \ a Jxis ( estcape from public execution by means © f ( t he poison furrushed tp him by the mother of Flortbel , who wills not that ft df
the " . o ^ rpiug mult itude "/ should see the blackened ^ features that sKecJoyeid . " ; This is fim ^ and so also is the « rtin ^ > ffconsci ^ no ^ in Hesperus when the attendan t is ) lightingh \ rwt 6 Hhe wed ^ i ^ g-isupper : «^ - ¦ ¦ lf ¦ ¦' -, ,: •' ' ' ; . ¦>; !* vwr < >• - « WHfdoWt thou thrust thy taper m my fece ? " ^ y '
No price is set on t . Lord EnesL , t Hither , Jlesperus ; { ,, i '' Thou dost nof f ^^ ^ hk / fiQ ^ paiiyi O ^ fcii ^ ineni ? f . u Met tO COflj ^ fuJ ^^ a w m trr » > ¦» V Your glad ^ sSv /> . • - , -vr ^ t ,. ., ] j « w + r , n- > j * w f ,., ^ * ,-. /
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152 Dramatic Recollections *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 152, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/26/
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