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" ... consists in nothing but the attempt to give perfection to the human race. It is thus an image of human nature itself; endowed with a miserable foresight and bound down to a narrow existence, without an ally and with nothing' to oppose to the combined... "
A Selection from the Writings of Henry R. Cleveland: With a Memoir - Page 29
by Henry Russell Cleveland, George Stillman Hillard - 1844 - 384 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 26

1816 - 564 pages
...rock like the sen, and the empire of heaven as not yet fixed. ' Prometheus, ' says our author, ' is an image of human nature itself; endowed with a miserable...claims. The other poems of the Greek tragedians are single tragedies ; but this may be called tragedy itself; its purest spirit is revealed with all the...
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The Seven Tragedies of Aeschylus

Aeschylus - 1829 - 362 pages
...disobedience ; and that disobedience consists in nothing but the attempt to give perfection to the human race. It is thus an image of human nature itself; endowed...claims. The other poems of the Greek tragedians are single tragedies; but this may be called tragedy itself: its purest spirit is revealed with all the...
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Prometheus Bound: A Tragedy

Aeschylus - 1832 - 84 pages
...and that disobedience consists in nothing but the attempt to give perfection to the human race. He is thus an image of human nature itself, endowed with...will, and the consciousness of elevated claims. The poet has contrived in a masterly manner to introduce variety and progress into that which in itself...
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A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1833 - 476 pages
...disobedience, and that disobedience consists in nothing but the attempt to give perfection to the human race. It is thus an image of human nature itself: endowed...claims. The other poems of the Greek tragedians are single tragedies; but this may be called tragedy itself: its purest spirit is revealed with all the...
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A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1833 - 488 pages
...disobedience, and that disobedience consists in nothing but the attempt to give perfection to the human race. It is thus an image of human nature itself: endowed with a miserable foresight aud bound down to a narrow existence, without an ally, and with nothing to oppose to the combined and...
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The Monthly Review

1842 - 610 pages
...to rock like the sea, and the empire of heaven was not yet fixed. " Prometheus," says Schlegel, is an image of human nature itself; endowed with a miserable...claims. The other poems of the Greek tragedians are single tragedies ; but this may be called tragedy itself; its purest spirit is revealed with all the...
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The American Review, and Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 1

1843 - 600 pages
...disobedience, and that disobedience consists in nothing but the attempt to give perfection to the human race. It is thus an image of human nature itself, endowed...claims. The other poems of the Greek tragedians are single tragedies, this is tragedy itself; its purest spirit is revealed with all the annihilating and...
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A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1846 - 554 pages
...itself; endowed with an unblessed foresight and riveted to a, narrow existence, without a friend or ally, and with nothing; to oppose to the combined...nature^ but an unshaken will and the consciousness of her own lofty aspirations. The other productions of the Greek Tragedians are so many tragedies; but...
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Prose Writers of German

Frederic Henry Hedge - 1848 - 618 pages
...disobedience, and that disobedience consists in nothing but the attempt to give perfection to the human race. It is thus an image of human nature itself: endowed...without an ally, and with nothing to oppose to the comhined and inexorable powers of nature, but an unshaken will and the consciousness of elevated claims....
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Prose Writers of German

Frederic Henry Hedge - 1848 - 672 pages
...the human race. It is thus an image of human namre itself: endowed with a miserable foresight arid bound down to a narrow existence, without an ally, and with nothing to oppose to the comhined and inexorable powers of namre, but an unshaken will and the consciousness of elevated claims....
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