Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
_Koerlighedens Komedie_ was published at Christiania in 1862. The polite world--so far as such a thing existed at the time in the Northern capital--received it with an outburst of indignation now entirely easy to understand. It has indeed faults enough. The character-drawing i...
FALK. Yes, to pass current here, Love must have cross'd The great Siberian waste of regulations, Fann'd by no breath of ocean to its cost; It must produce official attestations...
1. Chapter 1_Koerlighedens Komedie_ was published at Christiania in 1862. The polite world--so far as such a thing existed at the time in the Northern capital--received it with an outburst...
3. Chapter 3MRS. HALM [with tears of emotion]. 'Tis the eighth in order Who well-provided from this house departs; [To FALK. Seven nieces wedded-always with a boarder-- [Is overcome; presse...
6. Chapter 6STIVER. [Descending into the garden discovers FALK, who is standing by the water and gazing over it. These poets are mere men of vengeance, we State servants understand diplomac...
2. Chapter 2MISS JAY [with tears of emotion]. No, Falk,--a man, with heart as large as day. But when a--so to speak--mere lifeless thing Can put such venom into envy's sting, And stir up ev...
4. Chapter 4LIND. Pray, excuse me, friend. I want a whiff of reason and the weed; I haven't smoked for three whole days on end. My blood was pulsing in such agitation, I trembled for reject...
7. Chapter 7GULDSTAD. Hear a golden counsel then. Use your experience; watch your fellow-men, How every loving couple struts and swaggers Like millionaires among a world of beggars. They sc...