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abodes Ægisthus Ægyptus æther Agam Agamemnon altars ancient Apollo Argives Ariomardus ATOSSA behold beneath the earth Blomfield blood Burges calamity chorus CLYT Clytemnestra common reading Conington dæmon Darius dead death deed deities Dindorf divine doom dread dwelling emendation Erinnys Eschylus Eteocles Eumenides evil eyes fate father followed friends gods Greeks hand hath hear heart honour horrors host Ilion ills Jove Jupiter justice king land light Linwood Mars mayest means mighty mind mortals mother Muller murder Nonnus Orestes Paley Paley's passage Peile Pelasgians perished Persians Polynices prayers Priam Prometheus race reverence rightly seems SEMI-CH Seven against Thebes Sewell ships sire sooth Soph Sophocles sorrow speak spear stranger sufferings suppliant tell thee thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thyself toils translation truth utter wail wilt words wrath wretched Xerxes δὲ καὶ
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Page 158 - The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Page 174 - I hear a voice, you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay; I see a hand, you cannot see, Which beckons me away.
Page 152 - My father's spirit in arms ! all is not well; I doubt some foul play: 'would, the night were come! Till then sit still, my soul: Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
Page 118 - Faithful — as dog, the lonely shepherd's pride, True — as the helm, the bark's protecting guide, Firm — as the shaft that props the towering dome, Sweet — as to shipwreck'd seamen land and home, Lovely — as child, a parent's sole delight, Radiant — as morn that breaks a stormy night, Grateful — as streams, that in some deep recess With rills unhop'd the panting traveller bless, Is he, that links with mine his chain of life, Names himself lord, and deigns to call me — wife...
Page 106 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me ; Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuff's out his vacant garments with his form ; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 55 - When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough: this earth, that bears thee dead, Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.
Page 33 - MERCURY. heave, and the roaring echo of thunder rolls bellowing by us ; and deep blazing wreaths of lightning are glaring, and hurricanes whirl the dust; and blasts of all the winds are leaping forth, shewing one against the other a strife of conflict gusts ; and the firmament is embroiled with the deep1.
Page 5 - O divine aether and ye swift-winged breezes, and ye fountains of riv ers, and countless dimpling of the waves of the deep; and thou Earth, mother of all, — and to the all-seeing orb of the Sun, I appeal ! Look upon me what treatment I, a God, am enduring at the hand of the Gods !"* The spectators simply let lyric emotion lead them on in order to obtain primitive metaphors, which, without being conscious of it, were the germs of their faith.
Page 39 - Masculine coarseness and lack of chivalry are also revealed in such abuse of woman as ^Eschj'lus—in the favorite Greek manner, puts in the mouth of Eteocles : " 0 ye abominations of the wise. Neither in woes nor in welcome prosperity may I be associated with woman-kind ; for when woman prevails, her audacity is more than one can live with ; and when affrighted she is still a greater mischief to her home and city.
Page 106 - Never ! What will to me be father, brother, friends, When thou art gone — the light of our life quench'd Haunting like spectres of departed joy The home where thou wert dearest?