AeschylusJ.B. Lippincott, 1879 - 196 pages |
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A. C. vol actors Ægisthus Ægyptus Agamemnon altar Antistrophe Apollo Areopagus Argive Argos Atè Athenian Athens Atossa Atreus avenge awful Bacchus bear beautiful bids blood brother chant chief Chorus citizens Clytemnestra comes cries crime curse Danaids dance daring Darius dark dead death deed deities doth dread earth Electra Erinnys Eschylus Eteocles Eumenides eyes fate father fear Furies goddess gods Greece Greek grief hand hath hear heaven hero honour host hymn Jove justice king Laius lamentation land maidens matricide messenger mortal murder numbers o'er Omphalos orchestra Orestes palace Pallas Pelasgus Pelops Persian Persian war play poet Polynices pray prayers pride Prometheus queen race sacred says scene Scythia shrine sing sire solemn song speaks stage stands story strain Strophe sufferings suppliant tell temple theatre Theban Thebes thee thou Thyestes tion tomb tragedy Trilogy Troy utter vengeance victim wail words wrath Xerxes Zeus
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Page 129 - 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 139 - 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 51 - Poured itself forth in all-prophetic song; And music lifted up the listening spirit Until it walked, exempt from mortal care, Godlike, o'er the clear billows of sweet sound; And human hands first mimicked and then mocked, With moulded limbs more lovely than its own, The human form, till marble grew divine; And mothers, gazing, drank the love men see Reflected in their race, behold, and perish. He told the hidden power of herbs and springs, And Disease drank and slept.
Page 50 - He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe...
Page 49 - 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 50 - And I first Bound in the yoke wild steeds, submissive made Or to the collar or men's limbs, that so They might in man's place bear his greatest toils ; And horses trained to love the rein I yoked To chariots, glory of wealth's pride of state...
Page 44 - 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.
Page 114 - Calls forth his glowing terrors, raves aloud, Reviles the sage, as forming tim'rous league With war and fate. Frowning he speaks, and shakes The dark crest streaming o'er his shaded helm In triple wave ; whilst dreadful ring around The brazen bosses of his shield, impressed With this proud argument. A sable sky Burning with stars ; and in the midst full orb'd A silver moon, the eye of night, o'er all Awful in beauty pours her peerless light.
Page 59 - And tempests whirl the dust, And gusts of all wild winds On one another leap, In wild conflicting blasts, And sky with sea is blent: Such is the storm from Zeus That comes as working fear, In terrors manifest.
Page 47 - Hephaestos sits and smites his iron red-hot. From whence hereafter streams of fire shall burst, Devouring with fierce jaws the golden plains Of fruitful, fair Sikelia. Such the wrath That Typhon shall belch forth with bursts of storm, Hot, breathing fire, and unapproachable, Though burnt and charred by thunderbolts of Zeus.