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" ... mysterious ends. Man, no longer the representative of an august will — man, the passion-puppet of fate, could not with any effect display what we call a character which is a distinction between man and man, emanating originally from the will, and... "
Biographies [of] Shakespeare, Pope, Goethe, and Schiller, and On the ... - Page 77
by Thomas De Quincey - 1863
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De Quincey's Writings, Volume 2

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...
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Biographical Essays

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...
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De Quincey's Writings: Biographical essays. 1870

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...
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Biographical Essays and Essays on the Poets

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...
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Confessions of an English Opium-eater, Also the Lives of Shakespeare and Goethe

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...
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Confessions of an English Opium-eater, Also the Lives of Shakespeare and Goethe

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...
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Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880).

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...
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The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 4

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...
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Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art: With a Critical Text and a ...

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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American Journal of Philology, Volume 36

Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Tenney Frank, Harold Fredrik Cherniss, Henry Thompson Rowell - Classical philology - 1915 - 524 pages
...with any effect display what we call 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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