AristophanesLippincott, 1879 - 172 pages |
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A. C. vol Abomination Acharnians Alcibiades appears Aristophanes Athenian Athenian audience Athenian comedy Athens Bacchus begs bids Birds bring brought burlesque caricature Cario chant character Chorus Chremylus citizens Cleon clever Clouds comedy comes comic court Cratinus Demosthenes Demus Dicæopolis doubt drama dramatist dress Eacus enemy Eschylus Euripides father festival follows gentleman give goddess gods Greek hand heaven Hercules honest humour Jupiter Knights lady Lamachus looks Lysistrata master Megacles Megara Megarian Merc Mercury Mnesilochus modern never Nicias once oracles Paphlagonian parody peace Peisthetærus Pheidippides philosopher piece play Plutus Pnyx poet political popular Praxagora present proceeds Pylos represented round satire satirist scene slave Socrates Spartans stage Strepsiades Stud suppose sure Telephus tell temple there's things Thrace tragedian tragedy Tryg Trygæus Wasps women words Xanthias
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Page 55 - Thus having spoke, the illustrious chief "of Troy Stretch'd his fond arms to clasp the lovely boy. The babe clung crying to his nurse's breast, Scared at the dazzling helm, and nodding crest. With secret pleasure each fond parent smiled, And Hector hasted to relieve his child, The glittering terrors from his brows unbound, And placed the beaming helmet on the ground ; Then...
Page 19 - Would not you please to take a little refreshment? And there's that nice hot broth — And here's the threepence You left behind you — And would not you order supper ? " Moreover, when we get things out of compliment As a present for our master, he contrives To snatch 'em and serve 'em up before our faces. I'd made a Spartan cake at Pylos lately, And...
Page 120 - There came a body of thirty thousand cranes (I won't be positive, there might be more) With stones from Africa, in their craws and gizzards, Which the stone-curlews and stone-chatterers Worked into shape and finished.
Page 118 - O'er ocean and earth, and aloft to the sky: And, all the world over, we're friends to the lover, And when other means fail, we are found to prevail, When a Peacock or Pheasant is sent as a present.
Page 54 - First, I detest the Spartans most extremely; And wish that Neptune, the Taenarian deity, Would bury them in their houses with his earthquakes. For I've had losses — losses, let me tell ye, Like other people; vines cut down and injured. But, among friends (for only friends are here), Why should we blame the Spartans for all this? For people of ours, some people of our own, Some people from amongst us here, I mean; But not the people (pray remember that); I never said the people — but a pack Of...
Page 119 - For counsel and aid when a marriage is made, A purchase, a bargain, a venture in trade. Unlucky or lucky, whatever has struck ye, An ox or an ass, that may happen to pass, A voice in the street, or a slave that you meet, A name or a word by chance overheard, If you deem it an omen, you call it a bird; And if birds are your omens, it clearly will follow That birds are a proper prophetic Apollo.
Page 54 - And so they begged and prayed us several times; And we refused; and so they went to war. You'll say " They should not." Why, what should they have done ? Just make it your own case; suppose the Spartans Had manned a boat, and landed on your islands, And stolen a pug puppy from Seriphos; Would you then have remained at home inglorious ? Not so, by no means; at the first report, You would have launched at once three hundred...
Page 26 - They seldom stopped to count the foe, nor sum the moneys spent, But clenched their teeth, and straight ahead with sword and musket went. And, though they thought if trade were free that England ne'er would thrive, They freely gave their blood for Moore, and Wellington, and Clive.
Page 131 - I ^Eacus? (coming out). Thou brutal, abominable, detestable, Vile, villainous, infamous, nefarious scoundrel ! — How durst thou, villain as thou wert, to seize Our watch-dog, Cerberus, whom I kept and tended Hurrying him off, half-strangled in your grasp ? — But now, be sure we have you safe and fast, Miscreant and villain ! — Thee, the Stygian cliffs, With stern adamantine durance, and the rocks Of inaccessible Acheron, red with gore, Environ and beleaguer; and the watch, And swift pursuit...
Page 3 - There the drama — but what is a drama in Naples without Punch? or what is Punch out of Naples? Here, in his native tongue, and among his own countrymen, Punch is a person of real power: he dresses up and retails all the drolleries of the day: he is the channel and sometimes the source of the passing opinions: he can inflict ridicule, he could gain a mob, or keep the whole kingdom in good humour.