How am I changed, that my appearance on any scene should have power to work such woe? --Herman Melville, Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities (1852)SCENES BEYOND THE WESTERN BORDER
In crossing the Platte this morning, the grizzly bear cub came on the scene in his final act.
It will be remembered by the patient and attentive future reader of this dry and methodical narrative, that its first appearance on any stage, was in "high" tragedy—
--March 1853 Scenes Beyond the Western Border"; and Scenes and Adventures in the Army.
| Scenes Beyond the Western Border Southern Literary Messenger 19 (March 1853): 159 |
By infallible presentiment he saw, that not always doth life's beginning gloom conclude in gladness; that wedding-bells peal not ever in the last scene of life's fifth act....
Decreed by God Omnipotent it is, that Death should be the last scene of the last act of man's play;—a play, which begin how it may, in farce or comedy, ever hath its tragic end; the curtain inevitably falls upon a corpse.Related posts:
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