Denn er war zwar nur zu gern bereit, die Rolle zu übernehmen, die ihm fast unmittelbar, nachdem er volljährig geworden war, zuflog, und er fand tatsächlich einen besondern Genuß in dem Gedanken, er könne dem London seiner Zeit wahrhaft das werden, was der Verfasser des »Satyricon" einst dem kaiserlichen Rom Neros gewesen war.
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For he was only too willing to take on the role that came his way almost immediately after he came of age, and he actually took particular pleasure in the thought that he could truly become to the London of his time what the author of the Satyricon had once been to Nero's imperial Rome.
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