Classic Literature: Principally Sanskrit, Greek, and Roman, with Some Account of the Persian, Chinese, and Japanese, in the Form of Sketches of the Authors and Specimens from Translations of Their Works |
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Admetus Ægisthus Æschylus Agamemnon Alcestis ancient Antigone appears Aristophanes Aristotle Athenian Athens B.C. This poet beauty Cæsar celebrated character chorus Cicero clouds Clytemnestra comedy Cratinus Creon Crito daughter dead death deed Demosthenes dialogue DIKA divine drama dreadful earth Edipus Electra Eschylus Euripides eyes fate father fear give gods Greece Greek grief hand hath heaven hero Herodotus historian honor immortal Jove king light live look Lucian Macedon manner master Menippus mind moral mother Muses native nature never night noble o'er orator Orestes Persian philosopher Pindar Plato Plautus poem Polybius prince Prometheus remarkable replied Roman Rome shades sing slave sleep Socrates song Sophocles sorrows soul speak spirit sweet tears thee Theocritus things thou thought Thucydides tion tomb tragic Trojan Troy verses weep wife writers Xenophon young
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Page 33 - Yet, while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee : Alas ! my parents, brothers, kindred, all Once more will perish, if my Hector fall. Thy wife, thy infant, in thy danger share : Oh ! prove a husband's and a father's care! That quarter most the skilful Greeks annoy, Where yon wild fig-trees join the wall of Troy : Thou from this tower defend th...
Page 78 - Phoebus is himself thy sire. To thee of all things upon earth, Life is no longer than thy mirth. Happy insect ! happy thou, Dost neither age nor winter know : But when thou'st drunk, and danced, and sung Thy fill, the flowery leaves among, (Voluptuous, and wise withal. Epicurean animal !) Sated with thy summer feast, Thou retir'st to endless rest.
Page 200 - At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows...
Page 35 - Thus having spoke, the illustrious chief of Troy Stretched 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.
Page 343 - God, binding themselves by a solemn oath, not for the purposes of any wicked design, but never to commit any fraud, theft, or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up ; after which, it was their custom to separate, and then re-assemble, to eat in common a harmless meal.
Page 108 - Earth is rocking in space. And the thunders crash up with a roar upon roar, And the eddying lightnings flash fire in my face, And the whirlwinds are whirling the dust round and round, And the blasts of the winds universal leap free And blow each upon each with a passion of sound, And aether goes mingling in storm with the sea.
Page 77 - Tis filled wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede. Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king. All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants, belong to thee ; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice...
Page 29 - ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore, 5 Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore...
Page 31 - They cried, No wonder such celestial charms For nine long years have set the world in arms ; What winning graces! what majestic mien! She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen.
Page 108 - While the aether goes surging 'neath thunder and scourging Of wild winds unbound ! Let the blast of the firmament whirl from its place The earth rooted below, And the brine of the ocean, in rapid emotion, Be...