AeschylusBlackwood, 1870 - 196 pages |
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... rest of the city , crowned even now with temples of the gods , and especially of Minerva , the patron goddess . Its south side is a steep precipice of rock , from which the ground slopes gradually down . Here is the theatre . * The THE ...
... rest of the city , crowned even now with temples of the gods , and especially of Minerva , the patron goddess . Its south side is a steep precipice of rock , from which the ground slopes gradually down . Here is the theatre . * The THE ...
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... trifling , the cause lies not in our advance in culture , but in our having lost an art or a sensibility . The relation of the chorus to the rest of a Greek play may be well learned from Milton's imitation of an 16 ESCHYLUS .
... trifling , the cause lies not in our advance in culture , but in our having lost an art or a sensibility . The relation of the chorus to the rest of a Greek play may be well learned from Milton's imitation of an 16 ESCHYLUS .
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... rest of these , a little slow to follow the times , but made of a solid stuff of which there was too little remaining . Two things then , in particular , are to be noticed in Eschylus by the modern reader . First , the " many- sidedness ...
... rest of these , a little slow to follow the times , but made of a solid stuff of which there was too little remaining . Two things then , in particular , are to be noticed in Eschylus by the modern reader . First , the " many- sidedness ...
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... course of crime whose consequences clung to them and their descend- ants , till some one holier than the rest , by a long * See Ruskin's Oxford Lectures on Art , Lect . vii . pardon of heaven , Over each step of To the 30 ESCHYLUS .
... course of crime whose consequences clung to them and their descend- ants , till some one holier than the rest , by a long * See Ruskin's Oxford Lectures on Art , Lect . vii . pardon of heaven , Over each step of To the 30 ESCHYLUS .
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... rest , took their places by his side , the throne of Olympus had been filled by an older race of deities— Cronus , and Oceanus , and Prometheus , and the Titans -who had been exiled at the fall of their dynasty , or bound in prisons and ...
... rest , took their places by his side , the throne of Olympus had been filled by an older race of deities— Cronus , and Oceanus , and Prometheus , and the Titans -who had been exiled at the fall of their dynasty , or bound in prisons and ...
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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.
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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...
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