AeschylusBlackwood, 1870 - 196 pages |
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Page 54
... prayers . Prometheus re- cognises her at once . " Surely , " he says , - " Surely I hear the maid by gadfly driven , Daughter of Inachos , who warmed the heart Of Zeus with love , and now through Here's hate Is tried , perforce , with ...
... prayers . Prometheus re- cognises her at once . " Surely , " he says , - " Surely I hear the maid by gadfly driven , Daughter of Inachos , who warmed the heart Of Zeus with love , and now through Here's hate Is tried , perforce , with ...
Page 64
... prayer and its success constitute the simple plot of the drama . The legend may possibly strike us as absurd , and in particular the obvious improbability of the numbers of the cousins may seem to indicate a childish credulity in those ...
... prayer and its success constitute the simple plot of the drama . The legend may possibly strike us as absurd , and in particular the obvious improbability of the numbers of the cousins may seem to indicate a childish credulity in those ...
Page 67
... prayers and lamenta- tions . Just as Prometheus compares his sufferings with those of Atlas and Typhon , so these maidens compare themselves to Tereus ' bride , the piteous nightingale : - " As she , driven back from wonted haunts and ...
... prayers and lamenta- tions . Just as Prometheus compares his sufferings with those of Atlas and Typhon , so these maidens compare themselves to Tereus ' bride , the piteous nightingale : - " As she , driven back from wonted haunts and ...
Page 69
... prayers to each of the great gods in turn , those " gods of contest " who presided over the great games of Greece , to Zeus , Apollo , Neptune or Poseidon , and to Hermes or Mercury , the herald and guide . These prayers are scarcely ...
... prayers to each of the great gods in turn , those " gods of contest " who presided over the great games of Greece , to Zeus , Apollo , Neptune or Poseidon , and to Hermes or Mercury , the herald and guide . These prayers are scarcely ...
Page 72
... country's gods , With suppliant prayers , to grant thy soul's desire ; And I will go in furtherance of thy wish : Sweet Suasion follow us , and Fortune good . " The opening of their new supplication is striking . They 72 ESCHYLUS .
... country's gods , With suppliant prayers , to grant thy soul's desire ; And I will go in furtherance of thy wish : Sweet Suasion follow us , and Fortune good . " The opening of their new supplication is striking . They 72 ESCHYLUS .
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A. C. vol actors Ægisthus Ægyptus æther Agamemnon altar Antistrophe Apollo Areopagus Argive Argos 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 GEOGRAPHY Geology goddess gods Greece Greek grief hand hath hear heaven 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 Salamis says scene Scythia sing slain solemn song speaks stage stands story strain Strophe sufferings suppliant tell temple TEXT-BOOK 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 109 - With dying hand the rudder held, Till, in his fall, with fateful sway, The steerage of the realm gave way ! Then, while on Britain's thousand plains, One unpolluted church remains, Whose peaceful bells ne'er sent around The bloody tocsin's maddening sound, But still, upon the...
Page 53 - Hidden beneath the mountains and the waves. He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe ; And Science struck the thrones of Earth and Heaven, Which shook, but fell not ; and the harmonious mind 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...
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...