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And so Mantegna, with his Roman kindness for whatever had breath and vigour and boldness of design, carved his Judith on the lines of a Vestal Virgin, and gave her the rapt, daemonic features of the Tragic Muse.
We are reminded of a certain great temptation to which all men are subject and some fall, however reluctantly. Throughout there is a vein of daemonic. The daemon is half external fate in the Greek sense, half individual temper. The end is almost sullen; but the charm is never failing; at the last is the ever springing rhythm.
I look through it, and not with it." In the case of the gods, the matter is somewhat less simple than in that of all these daemonic creatures of the popular imagination. Gods imply a greater power of generalisation and a higher stage of religious development.
"And if I should give you that pleasure," Wanda exclaimed mockingly. "I shall suffer terrible agonies, but I shall adore you the more," I replied. "But you would never deceive me, you would have the daemonic greatness of saying to me: I shall love no one but you, but I shall make happy whoever pleases me." Wanda shook her head.
Yet there appears to my mind a defect of accomplishment, rather than a deliberate intention, in the delineation of Orsino. He seems meant to be the wily, crafty, Machiavellian reptile, whose calculating wickedness should form a contrast to the daemonic, reckless, almost maniacal fiendishness of old Francesco Cenci.
We abolished the Aberdeen Cabinet, the ablest we have had, perhaps, since the Reform Act a Cabinet not only adapted, but eminently adapted, for every sort of difficulty save the one it had to meet which abounded in pacific discretion, and was wanting only in the "daemonic element"; we chose a statesman, who had the sort of merit then wanted, who, when he feels the steady power of England behind him, will advance without reluctance, and will strike without restraint.
"The Tempest" is made up of the daemonic; the murky tragedy of "Macbeth" unfolds under the guidance of incarnate forces of evil which drive the hero to his doom and final deliverance in death: Hamlet sees and communes with the ghost of his father; in short, the supernatural is as much a part of these plays as salt is part of the ocean.
But the most conspicuous thing of all was a mutilated Erôs, by a late Rhodian artist subtle, thievish, lovely, breathing an evil and daemonic charm. It stood opposite the Nikê, 'on tiptoe for a flight. And there was that in it which seemed at moments to disorganize the room, and lay violent and exclusive hold on the spectator. Elizabeth on returning to her table found the library empty.
And thus for awhile infected and possessed, the divine genius had not power to re-inform and re-create the daemonic spirit by virtue of its own clear essence.
Both were uomini terribili, to use a phrase denoting vigour of character and energy of genius, made formidable by an abrupt, uncompromising spirit. Both worked with what the Italians call fury, with the impetuosity of daemonic natures; and both left the impress of their individuality stamped indelibly upon their age.
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