AeschylusBlackwood, 1870 - 196 pages |
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Page 42
... thou shalt know nor voice nor face of man , But scorching in the hot blaze of the sun Shalt lose thy skin's fair beauty . Thou shalt long For starry - mantled night to hide day's sheen , For sun to melt the rime of early dawn ; And ...
... thou shalt know nor voice nor face of man , But scorching in the hot blaze of the sun Shalt lose thy skin's fair beauty . Thou shalt long For starry - mantled night to hide day's sheen , For sun to melt the rime of early dawn ; And ...
Page 43
... thou hast . Vul . Ah me , Prometheus , for thy woes I groan ! Str . Again , thou'rt loath , and for the foes of Zeus Thou groanest : take good heed to it , lest thou Ere long with cause thyself commiserate . " Vulcan begs to be spared ...
... thou hast . Vul . Ah me , Prometheus , for thy woes I groan ! Str . Again , thou'rt loath , and for the foes of Zeus Thou groanest : take good heed to it , lest thou Ere long with cause thyself commiserate . " Vulcan begs to be spared ...
Page 44
... Thou firmament of God , and swift - winged winds , Ye springs of rivers , and of ocean - waves , Thou smile innumerous ! * Mother of us all , O Earth , and Sun's all - seeing eye , behold , I pray , what I , a god , from gods endure ...
... Thou firmament of God , and swift - winged winds , Ye springs of rivers , and of ocean - waves , Thou smile innumerous ! * Mother of us all , O Earth , and Sun's all - seeing eye , behold , I pray , what I , a god , from gods endure ...
Page 47
... form into rank , and walk down to the orchestra , chanting as they go the words , - " Not to unwilling hearers hast thou uttered , Prometheus , thy request . And now with nimble foot abandoning My swiftly - rushing PROMETHEUS BOUND . 47.
... form into rank , and walk down to the orchestra , chanting as they go the words , - " Not to unwilling hearers hast thou uttered , Prometheus , thy request . And now with nimble foot abandoning My swiftly - rushing PROMETHEUS BOUND . 47.
Page 49
... thou Shouldst care to take this trouble . Nay , be still ; Keep out of harm's way : sufferer though I be I would not therefore wish to give my woes A wider range o'er others . No , not so : For lo ! my mind is wearied with the grief Of ...
... thou Shouldst care to take this trouble . Nay , be still ; Keep out of harm's way : sufferer though I be I would not therefore wish to give my woes A wider range o'er others . No , not so : For lo ! my mind is wearied with the grief Of ...
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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...
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