 | University of Wisconsin - Literature - 1923 - 594 pages
...could add anything to the general suffrage, I might relate, that I was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia's death, that I know not whether I ever endured...of the play till I undertook to revise them as an editor.1" Although few may now share Johnson's desire for the retirement of the heroine "with victory... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - Tragedy - 1924 - 248 pages
...many years ago so shocked by Cordelia's death that I know not whether I ever endured again to read the last scenes of the play till I undertook to revise them as an editor." How honest he is ! How much more courageous in facing the truth than the moralists ! Ho w^ averse to... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1928 - 250 pages
...says Johnson, "that I was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia's death, that I know not whether 1 ever endured to read again the last scenes of the...play till I undertook to revise them as an editor." For the better part of a century the feelings of playgoers were spared by alterations in the acting... | |
 | Fanny Brawne - 1937 - 162 pages
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I was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia's death that I know not whether I ever endured to read again the last scenes of the play till I undertook to revise them as an editor. 
