alien or diverse experiences. It is
this peculiar insight which puts the
great dramatists in possession of the
secrets of so many temperaments,
the springs of so many different per-
sonalities, the atmosphere of such re-
mote periods of time, -- which, in a
way, gives them power to make the
dead live again; for Shakespeare can
stand at the tomb of Cleopatra and
evoke not the shade, but the passion-
ate woman herself out of the dust in
which she sleeps. There has been,
perhaps, no more luminous example
of the faculty of sharing the experi-
ence of a past age, of entering into
the thought and feeling of a vanished
race, than the peculiar divination and
rehabilitation of certain extinct phases
of emotion and thought which one
finds in the pages of Walter Pater.
In those pages there are, it is true,

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