Richard Cromwell, the King of Prussia and Calista, with the souls given them by Heaven, could only find peace and happiness by acting as they did. The conduct of the two last is eminently unreasonable and yet it is those two that we admire. (Sagan, 1813.)
[1] See the Spanish and Danish romances of the thirteenth century. French taste would find them dull and coarse.
[ "My God!
He is gone.... You have sent him.... And he had the heart?"—Tr.]
["What do I hear? I am deceived? Where now are all your vows?"—Tr. ]
["It is not his banishment I desire; it is his death. Let him die!"—Tr.]
[5] Grimm, Vol. III, p. 107.