| Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 318 pages
...mysterious agencies, and. for mysterious ends. Man, no longer the representative of an august will, man the passion-puppet of fate, could not with any effect...of character; and this was obliterated, thwarted, canf celled, by the dark fatalism which brooded over the Grecian stage. That explanation will sufficiently... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 306 pages
...mysterious agencies, and for mysterious ends. Man, no longer the representative of an august will, man the passion-puppet of fate, could not with any effect...scholar who has studied that grand drama of Greece with feeling, — that drama, so magnificent, so regal, so stately, — and who has thoughtfully investigated... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1870 - 290 pages
...mysterious agencies, and for mysterious ends. Man, no longer the representative of an august will, man, the passion-puppet of fate, could not with any effect...scholar who has studied that grand drama of Greece with feeling, — that drama, so magnificent, so regal, so stately, — and who has thoughtfully investigated... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1875 - 598 pages
...mysterious agencies, and for mysterious ends. Man, no longer the representative of an august ici//, man, the passion-puppet of fate, could not with any effect...Greek tragedy. And every scholar who has studied that (find drama of Greece with feeling, — that drama, *i magnificent, so regal, so stately, — and who... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - Drug addicts - 1886 - 296 pages
...mysterious agencies and for mysterious ends. Man, no longer the representative of an august •will — man, the passion-puppet of fate, could not with any effect...scholar who has studied that grand drama of Greece with feeling — that drama so magnificent, so regal, so stately — and who has thoughtfully investigated... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1888 - 296 pages
...mysterious agencies and for mysterious ends. Man, no longer the representative of an august will — man, the passion-puppet of fate, could not with any effect...scholar who has studied that grand drama of Greece with feeling — that drama so magnificent, so regal, so stately — and who has thoughtfully investigated... | |
| James Mercer Garnett - English literature - 1890 - 730 pages
...mysterious agencies and for mysterious ends. Man, no longer the representative of an august will — man, the passion-puppet of fate, could not with any effect...scholar who has studied that grand drama of Greece with feeling — that drama so magnificent, so regal, so stately — and who has thoughtfully investigated... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1890 - 464 pages
...mysterious agencies, and for mysterious ends. Man, no longer the representative of an august will, — man, the passion-puppet of fate,— could not with any...scholar who has studied that grand drama of Greece with feeling, — that drama, so magnificent, so regal, so stately, — and who has thoughtfully investigated... | |
| Samuel Henry Butcher - Aesthetics - 1895 - 418 pages
...effect display what we call a character ' ; for the will which is ' the central pivot of character was obliterated, thwarted, cancelled by the dark fatalism which brooded over the Grecian stage.' ' Powerful and elaborate character ... would have been wasted, nay would have been defeated and interrupted... | |
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