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ous only by his circumstances . Del Passato , the poetical stoic ? is exquisitely imagined and executed . How full of fine suggestion is his scene with Garcia at the commencement of the fourth act , and how full of powerful pathos that with Cosmo in the gardens . Passato stands above the storm of
passion . His character is a piecce of Epic poetry in a dramaticc work , or rather , perhaps , hee serves as its Chorus . " « We have remarked the rapid ! development of mind and passion in Garcia . Of this he iss himself conscious . After his last interview with his mother , he says : —
" In these few days I am grown older both in body and mind , By many a year ; and my experience Of life and death has superseded youth , And all its flowers lie like a shower of stones . "—p . 94 .
The whole of this speech , had we space to analyse it , might , as it proceeds , serve as illustration of the peculiar temperament of Garcia , and the rapid
transitions of feeling characteristic of him His consciousness that he lias the appearance of guilt and remorse is a very important point : —
" Existence is become a sleepless fiend Within , and on the surface of my flesh . Despite the efforts of my will , I feel My face is written over with the worst . Although a lie to reason . —p . 65 .
There is a subtle truth to nature in this picture of a highly sympathetic being taking the appearance of guilt , because the world imputes it , and in the consciousness of tins
appearance , giving all the disadvantages of guilt . The judgment of Cosmo on the subject of the murder is rivetted by this circumstance . His strong , self-poised nature cannot comprehend how , in one of
more lively imagination , and less outward-acting will , a conflict of opposing passions might give the external signs of crime . His awful resolution is confirmed by every attempt he makes to examine its
correctness . Thus , in the scene in the ante-chamber , when Garcia enters , Cosmo advances close and fixes his eyes upon him ,
saying" Art worthy to be here ? Should ' st thou not rather be within thv tomb ? Gah . I rather would be there . Cosmo . Wherefore would ' st rather ?"—p . 98 . He has drawn an instant in- question shows . Again : — fqrence from the words , as the
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Cosmo de Medici . 2011
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 2011, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/57/
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