And every scholar who has studied that grand drama of Greece with feeling,-that drama, so magnificent, so regal, so stately,-and who has thoughtfully investigated its principles, and its difference from the English drama, will acknowledge that powerful and elaborate character, character, for instance, that could employ the fiftieth part of that profound analysis which has been applied to Hamlet, to Falstaff, to Lear, to Othello, and applied by Mrs. Jamieson so admirably to the full development of the Shakspearian heroines, would have been as much wasted, nay, would have been defeated, and interrupted the blind agencies of fate, just in the same way as it would injure the shadowy grandeur of a ghost to individualize it too much.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey
They have each striking peculiarities which individualize and stamp them with a character of their own.
"Irish Race in the Past and the Present"
Aug. J. Thebaud
From Owen's communism, Warren ran to the opposite extreme, and thought it impossible to individualize things too much.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae