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A. C. vol actors Ægisthus æther Agamemnon altar ancient Antistrophe Apollo Areopagus Argive Argos arms Atè Athenian Athens Atossa Atreus avenge awful Bacchus bear beautiful blood brother Calchas chant chief Chorus citizens Clytemnestra comes cries crime curse Danaids dance Darius dark dead death deed deities doth dread earth Electra Erinnys Eschylus Eteocles Eumenides express eyes fall fate father fear Furies goddess gods Greece Greek grief hand hath hear heaven herald hero honour host Jove king Laius lamentation land maidens messenger mortal mother numbers o'er orchestra Orestes palace Pallas Pelasgus Pelops Persian Persian war play poet Polynices pray prayers pride Prometheus queen race ruin Salamis says scene Scythia sing slain solemn song speaks stage stands story strain Strophe sufferings suppliant tell temple theatre Theban Thebes thee thou Thyestes tion tomb tragedy Troy utter vengeance wail words wrath Xerxes Zeus
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Page 131 - The cease of majesty Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw What's near it with it; it is a massy wheel, Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things Are mortis'd and adjoin'd; which, when it falls, Each small annexment, petty consequence, Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone Did the king sigh, but with a general groan.
Page 141 - Lincoln sped the message on o'er the wide vale of Trent ; Till Skiddaw saw the fire that burned on Gaunt's embattled pile, And the red glare on Skiddaw roused the burghers of Carlisle.
Page 52 - Nepenthe, moly, amaranth, fadeless blooms, That they might hide with thin and rainbow wings ' The shape of Death ; and Love he sent to bind The disunited tendrils of that vine \Vhich bears the wine of life, the human heart...
Page 52 - He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe...
Page 51 - They muddled all at random; did not know Houses of brick that catch the sunlight's warmth, Nor yet the work of carpentry. They dwelt In hollowed holes, like swarms of tiny ants, In sunless depths of caverns; and they had No certain signs of winter, nor of spring Flower-laden, nor of summer with her fruits; But without counsel fared their whole life long, Until I showed the risings of the stars, And settings hard to recognise. And I Found Number for them, chief device of all, Groupings of letters,...
Page 93 - Naught did their bows avail, but all the troops In the first conflict of the ships were lost.
Page 58 - Stately of utterance, full of haughtiness Thy speech, as fits a messenger of Gods. Ye yet are young in your new rule, and think To dwell in painless towers. Have I not Seen two great rulers driven forth from thence ?" And now the third, who reigneth, I shall see In basest, quickest fall. Seem I to thee To shrink and quail before these new-made Gods? Far, very far from that am I. But thou, Track once again the path by which thou earnest ; Thou shalt learn nought of what thou askest me.
Page 42 - Tis no slight thing the Father's words to scorn. 0 thou of Themis [to PROMETHEUS] wise in counsel son, Full deep of purpose, lo ! against my will* 1 fetter thee against thy will with bonds Of bronze that none can loose, to this lone height, Where thou shalt know nor voice nor face of man, But scorching in the hot blaze of the sun, Shalt lose thy skin's fair beauty. Thou shalt long For starry-mantled night to hide day's sheen, For sun to melt the rime of early dawn ; And evermore the weight of present...
Page 46 - Prom. I know that Zeus is hard, And keeps the Right supremely to himself; But then, I trow, He'll be Full pliant in his will, When He is thus crushed down. Then, calming down his mood Of hard and bitter wrath, He'll hasten unto me, As I to him shall haste, For friendship and for peace.