AeschylusBlackwood, 1870 - 196 pages |
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... speak if it were not so possessed ? The clouds gathered and the lightning flashed , not of themselves , or in obedience to laws of nature - of those mysterious powers the Greek had never heard - but simply be- cause some person moved ...
... speak if it were not so possessed ? The clouds gathered and the lightning flashed , not of themselves , or in obedience to laws of nature - of those mysterious powers the Greek had never heard - but simply be- cause some person moved ...
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... speak to the common sympathies of mankind . As a genuine Athenian citizen , mixed up in the battles and politics of his city , engaged in providing for Athenian taste , and to no small degree in guiding it , he cannot fail to express ...
... speak to the common sympathies of mankind . As a genuine Athenian citizen , mixed up in the battles and politics of his city , engaged in providing for Athenian taste , and to no small degree in guiding it , he cannot fail to express ...
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... Jove . That is all . Other persons come and speak to him , urge or command him to relent , or threaten him with the result , but only to be repelled in turn . The attitude of the hero never alters , the issue is never 34 ESCHYLUS .
... Jove . That is all . Other persons come and speak to him , urge or command him to relent , or threaten him with the result , but only to be repelled in turn . The attitude of the hero never alters , the issue is never 34 ESCHYLUS .
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... speaks for both . With them comes the lame god Vulcan , the god of fire , for it is his office to forge the chains and bolts , and to bind the victim . Though it is his own special prerogative which Prometheus has injured , yet Vulcan ...
... speaks for both . With them comes the lame god Vulcan , the god of fire , for it is his office to forge the chains and bolts , and to bind the victim . Though it is his own special prerogative which Prometheus has injured , yet Vulcan ...
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... speak again of the like fate of Atlas , ever groaning under the burden of the world , with whom all nature laments , as with Prometheus . " And lo ! the ocean - billows murmur loud In one accord with him ; The sea - depths groan , and ...
... speak again of the like fate of Atlas , ever groaning under the burden of the world , with whom all nature laments , as with Prometheus . " And lo ! the ocean - billows murmur loud In one accord with him ; The sea - depths groan , 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.
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...