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... CHORUS . - I see , Prometheus : and a fearful cloud full of tears spread speedily over my eyes , as I looked on thy frame withering on these rocks in galling adamantine fetters for new administrators are paramount in Olym- pus ; and ...
... CHORUS . - I see , Prometheus : and a fearful cloud full of tears spread speedily over my eyes , as I looked on thy frame withering on these rocks in galling adamantine fetters for new administrators are paramount in Olym- pus ; and ...
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... CHORUS . - And didst thou chance to advance even be- yond this ? PROM . - I did indeed put an end to mortals ' foresight of their dooma . b CHORUS . By the discovery of what specific for this malady ? PROM . - I introduced blind hopes ...
... CHORUS . - And didst thou chance to advance even be- yond this ? PROM . - I did indeed put an end to mortals ' foresight of their dooma . b CHORUS . By the discovery of what specific for this malady ? PROM . - I introduced blind hopes ...
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... CHORUS . - Thou hast to bear unseemly suffering , baulked in thy discretion thou art erring ; and like a bad physician , having fallen into a distemper thou art disheartened , and art , in reference to thyself , unable to discover by ...
... CHORUS . - Thou hast to bear unseemly suffering , baulked in thy discretion thou art erring ; and like a bad physician , having fallen into a distemper thou art disheartened , and art , in reference to thyself , unable to discover by ...
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... CHORUS . - Do not now u serve the human race unseason- ably , while thou takest no thought for thyself in thy dis ... CHORUS . - Who then is it that manages the helm of necessity ? PROM . The triform Fates and the unforgetful Furies ...
... CHORUS . - Do not now u serve the human race unseason- ably , while thou takest no thought for thyself in thy dis ... CHORUS . - Who then is it that manages the helm of necessity ? PROM . The triform Fates and the unforgetful Furies ...
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... CHORUS . - What ! hast thou aught of suffering left to tell to her ? PROM . - Aye , a tempestuous sea of baleful calamities . 10. What advantage then is it for me to live ? but why did I not quickly fling myself from this rugged rock ...
... CHORUS . - What ! hast thou aught of suffering left to tell to her ? PROM . - Aye , a tempestuous sea of baleful calamities . 10. What advantage then is it for me to live ? but why did I not quickly fling myself from this rugged rock ...
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abodes Ægisthus Ægyptus Æneid Æschylus Agamemnon altars Amphiaraus ancient Apollo Argives ATOSSA behold beneath the earth Blomf Blomfield Blomfield's Glossary Blomfield's note blood Brunck Butler calamity CHORUS CHORUS.-I CHORUS.-Woe Clytemnestra Compare dæmon DANAUS Darius deed deities didst divine doom dread dwelling Edipus ELECTRA Elmsley enim Eteocles Eurip evil explains eyes father friends give gods Greeks hand hath hear heart Heath Heracl Hermann Herodotus honour horrors Jove Jupiter justice land Matthiæ's Gr means mighty mind mortals mother murder old reading Orestes palace passage Pelasgians PELASGUS periphrasis perished Persians Pindar Polynices Porson professor Scholefield PROM Prometheus quæ quod race reverence scholiast Schutz Schwenk seems sense shalt ships sire sooth Soph Sophocles sorrow soul speak spear Stanley stranger sufferings suppliant Symmons tell thee thine things thou art thou hast Thyestes thyself translated Tydeus utter virgins wail Wellauer words wrath wretched Xerxes
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Page 43 - I am thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature?
Page 180 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me ; Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuff's out his vacant garments with his form ; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 116 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 242 - What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Page 256 - Mighty victor, mighty lord! Low on his funeral couch he lies! No pitying heart, no eye, afford A tear to grace his obsequies.
Page 159 - Clytemnestra greets him with hypocritical joy and veneration; she orders her slaves to cover the ground with the most costly embroideries of purple, that it might not be touched by the foot of the conqueror. Agamemnon, with wise moderation...
Page 6 - Out of my grief and my impatience, Answer'd neglectingly I know not what, He should, or he should not; for he made me mad, To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet...
Page 92 - When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough: this earth, that bears thee dead, Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.
Page 159 - Thyestes, which the sun refused to look on: the shadows of the dilacerated children appear to her on the battlements of the palace. She also sees the death prepared for her master, and although horror-struck at the atrocious spectacle, as if seized with an overpowering fury, she rushes into the house to meet her inevitable death; we then hear behind the scenes the sighs of the dying Agamemnon.
Page 159 - Trojan war, throughout all its eventful changes of fortune from its first origin, and recount all the prophecies relating to it, and the sacrifice of Iphigenia, at the expense of which the voyage of the Greeks was purchased. Clytemnestra declares the joyful cause of the sacrifice which she orders, and the herald Talthybius immediately makes his appearance, who as an eyewitness...