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... mother brought them to the support of Jupiter against the Titans , that she was made the great swearing - stock of Olympus . Cf. Hesiod . Theog . 400 . ARGUMENT . " THE Chained Prometheus held a middle place PERSONS REPRESENTED. ...
... mother brought them to the support of Jupiter against the Titans , that she was made the great swearing - stock of Olympus . Cf. Hesiod . Theog . 400 . ARGUMENT . " THE Chained Prometheus held a middle place PERSONS REPRESENTED. ...
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... mother of all - and to the all - seeing orb of the Sun I appeal : look upon me , what treatment I , a god , am enduring at the hand of the gods ! Behold with what indignities , torn piecemeal , I shall have to wrestle for an ...
... mother of all - and to the all - seeing orb of the Sun I appeal : look upon me , what treatment I , a god , am enduring at the hand of the gods ! Behold with what indignities , torn piecemeal , I shall have to wrestle for an ...
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... mother of the principal rivers , Nilus , Alpheus , etc. and of three thousand daughters : she seems sometimes to have been confounded with her granddaughter Thetis . In such cases we shall as well bear in mind the ob- servation of sir ...
... mother of the principal rivers , Nilus , Alpheus , etc. and of three thousand daughters : she seems sometimes to have been confounded with her granddaughter Thetis . In such cases we shall as well bear in mind the ob- servation of sir ...
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... mother Themis , and Terra , a single person with many designations , had forewarned me of the way in which the future should be accomplished , how that it was destined , that , not in the way of main force , nor by the strong hand , but ...
... mother Themis , and Terra , a single person with many designations , had forewarned me of the way in which the future should be accomplished , how that it was destined , that , not in the way of main force , nor by the strong hand , but ...
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... mother to share my counsel , and promptly side with Jupiter , who was right glad to receive us . And ' tis by means of my counsels that the murky abyss of Tartarus overwhelms the antique Saturn , his partisans and all . After receiving ...
... mother to share my counsel , and promptly side with Jupiter , who was right glad to receive us . And ' tis by means of my counsels that the murky abyss of Tartarus overwhelms the antique Saturn , his partisans and all . After receiving ...
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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...