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Page 104
... Electra and Iphigenia . We should read then , it is plain , fervetur ad imum Qualis ab incepto procefferit , AUT fibi conftet . The mistake arofe from imagining , that a cha- racter could no other way confist with itself , but by being ...
... Electra and Iphigenia . We should read then , it is plain , fervetur ad imum Qualis ab incepto procefferit , AUT fibi conftet . The mistake arofe from imagining , that a cha- racter could no other way confist with itself , but by being ...
Page 105
... Electra , torn with fundry conflicting paffions , is most apparently , and in the propereft notion of the word , ununiform . One of the ftrongest touches in her character is that of a high , heroic spirit , fen- fible to her own and her ...
... Electra , torn with fundry conflicting paffions , is most apparently , and in the propereft notion of the word , ununiform . One of the ftrongest touches in her character is that of a high , heroic spirit , fen- fible to her own and her ...
Page 106
... former . 127. AUT SIBI CONSTET . ] The ELECTRA and IPHIGENIA of Euripides have been quoted , in the preceding note , as instances of ununiform characters , characters , juftly fuftained , or , what Aristotle calls 106 NOTES ON THE.
... former . 127. AUT SIBI CONSTET . ] The ELECTRA and IPHIGENIA of Euripides have been quoted , in the preceding note , as instances of ununiform characters , characters , juftly fuftained , or , what Aristotle calls 106 NOTES ON THE.
Page 107
... Electra is , that her cha- racter is drawn with fuch heightenings of impla- cability and resentment , as make it utterly in- credible , she should , immediately on the murder . of Clytemneftra , fall into the fame excess of grief and ...
... Electra is , that her cha- racter is drawn with fuch heightenings of impla- cability and resentment , as make it utterly in- credible , she should , immediately on the murder . of Clytemneftra , fall into the fame excess of grief and ...
Page 108
... Electra , ought not , it is further in- fifted , to have fhewn itself immediately on the murder of Clytemneftra . But why not ? There is nothing in the character of Electra , the maxims of thofe times , or in the difpofition of the ...
... Electra , ought not , it is further in- fifted , to have fhewn itself immediately on the murder of Clytemneftra . But why not ? There is nothing in the character of Electra , the maxims of thofe times , or in the difpofition of the ...
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