text:  We can sympathize as strongly with the protracted woes of Andromache or the generous self-immolation of Antigone as the Athenian audience who wept at the eloquence of Euripides or the power of Sophocles: we feel the death of Wallenstein to be as sublime as the Germans who are transported by the verses of Schiller; and they weep at the heroism of Mary Stuart with as heartfelt emotion as the people of Scotland to whom her name is a household word