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A. C. vol actors Ægisthus Ægyptus æther Agamemnon altar Antigone Antistrophe Apollo Argive Argos arms Atè Athenian Athens Atossa Bacchus bear beautiful blood brother chant chief Chorus citizens Clytemnestra comes cries curse Danaids Danaus dance Darius dark dead death deed deities drama dread earth Erinnys Eschylus Eteocles express eyes fall fate father fear Furies glory goddess gods Greece Greek grief hand hath hear heaven hero honour host indignation Ismene Jove king Laius lamentation land maidens messenger mortal mother mysterious numbers o'er orchestra Orestes palace Pallas Pelasgus Pelops Persian Persian war Phrynichus play poet Polynices prayers pride Prom Prometheus Prometheus Bound race Salamis says scene Scythia shield sing solemn song speak spear stage stands story strain Strophe sufferings suppliant tell temples theatre Theban Thebes thee thou throne tion tomb tragedy utter vengeance Vulcan wailing words wrath Xerxes Zeus
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Page 137 - lordly terraces the sign to Lincoln sent, And 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." Then Clytemnestra describes what she imagines to
Page 127 - Fixed on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things Are mortised and adjoined; 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 105 - With Palinure's unaltered mood, Firm at his dangerous post he stood; Each call for needful rest repelled, With dying hand the rudder held, Till in his fall, with fateful sway, The steerage of the realm gave way." tones which befit the inhabitants of a besieged
Page 126 - The cease of Majesty Dies not alone ; but like a gulf, doth draw What's near it with it; it is a massy wheel Fixed on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things Are mortised and adjoined; 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 48 - Most terrible but lovely, played beneath The frown of man ; and tortured to his will Iron and gold, the slaves and signs of power, And gems and poisons, and all subtlest forms Hidden beneath the mountains and the waves. He gave man speech, and speech created
Page 48 - The shape of Death; and Love he sent to bind The disunited tendrils of that vine Which bears the wine of life, the human heart And he tamed fire, which, like some beast of
Page 38 - As due reward for thy philanthropy. For thou, a god not fearing power of gods, In thy transgression gav'st their power to men; And therefore on this rock of little ease Thou still shalt keep thy watch, nor lying down Nor knowing sleep, nor ever bending knee ; And many groans and wailings
Page 42 - I know that Zeus is hard, And keeps the right supremely to himself; But then, I know, 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 70 - Which of the gods could I with right invoke As doing juster deeds ? He is our father, author of our life, The king whose right hand worketh all his will, Our line's great author, in his counsels deep Recording things of old, Directing all his plans, the great work-master Zeus.
Page 56 - To counsel and persuade, And I will hear; for now Thou hast this word thrust in That we may never hear. How dost thou bid me train My soul to baseness vile ? With him I will endure Whatever is decreed. Traitors I've learnt to hate; Nor is there any plague That more than this I loathe.