| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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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