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authority of this one deponent, whose competence I fancy no one 

 will question, the Greek protagonist, while laying claim to the 

 pity of the audience for his reverses, was effectually disqualified 

 as a " sympathetic " character by the horror that he excited by 

 his misdeeds. The evidence is conclusive : the " sympathetic " 

 protagonist, with the sentimental reconciliation of which he is an 

 outcome, is a persistent characteristic of modern, in contradis- 

 tinction from ancient tragedy. 



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