And again,--

"You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave.

Thou art a soul in bliss."

Why should I cite passages? Can any man open upon the scene in which

these are contained, without Kean's piteous looks and tones being

present to him? And does not the mere remembrance of them, as he reads,

bring tears into his eyes? Yet, once more, in Othello,--

"Had it pleased Heaven

To try me with affliction," &c.

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