[…] the time came when he sickened of the whole affair, and withdrew his agent, and took whatever gain from it the actor apportioned him. He was apt to have these sudden surceases, following upon the intensities of his earlier interest […]

His performance last night was pure box office.

Only two pages of the Pushkin are given to the lyric, and these to such relatively Englishable items as a ballad (The Upas Tree) and the Exegi Monumentum, which has had its hundreds of English predecessors.

Sebastian: A liuing Drolerie : now I will beleeue That there are Vnicornes : that in Arabia There is one Tree, the Phœnix throne, one Phœnix At this houre reigning there.