Effort expressible one only way—

Such tear from me fall to Euripides!'

"The Thasian!—All, the Thasian, I account!

"Whereupon outburst the whole company

Into applause and—laughter, would you think?

"'The unrivalled one! How, never at a loss,

He turns the Tragic on its Comic side

Else imperceptible! Here 's death itself—

Death of a rival, of an enemy,—

Scarce seen as Comic till the master-touch