Prometheus Bound: A TragedyW. Pickering, 1832 - 74 páginas |
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... hear that I have not sufficiently preserved the sharpness of outline in this old master ; that much of the richness of his colouring is lost ; that I have not traced him line for line : and if in our language could be found words that ...
... hear that I have not sufficiently preserved the sharpness of outline in this old master ; that much of the richness of his colouring is lost ; that I have not traced him line for line : and if in our language could be found words that ...
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... hear ! Thou son of Themis , full of truth , thyself Of high resolve ! forgive me , that with these Irrefragable chains , against my will , And against thine , I am compelled to bind thee To this inclement promontory's side ; Where never ...
... hear ! Thou son of Themis , full of truth , thyself Of high resolve ! forgive me , that with these Irrefragable chains , against my will , And against thine , I am compelled to bind thee To this inclement promontory's side ; Where never ...
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... hear ? again ! What echoes steal along ! what means that sound— Whence are those odours sweeter than all sound Of voice or instrument , filling every sense- Come they from earth or heaven ? And what art thou , or God , or man , Or ...
... hear ? again ! What echoes steal along ! what means that sound— Whence are those odours sweeter than all sound Of voice or instrument , filling every sense- Come they from earth or heaven ? And what art thou , or God , or man , Or ...
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... hear ; then let me pass it by : Look for some means to loose your bonds . PROMETHEUS . ' Tis easy For one whose path of life is free from cares , And sorrows , to give counsel , and find words Of much reproof to tax with evil those Who ...
... hear ; then let me pass it by : Look for some means to loose your bonds . PROMETHEUS . ' Tis easy For one whose path of life is free from cares , And sorrows , to give counsel , and find words Of much reproof to tax with evil those Who ...
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... hear them o'er and o'er to this their close ! OCEANUS . PROMETHEUS . OCEANUS . Borne on the pinions strong of my fleet bird , Who knows instinctively my will , and needs No rein to guide , a long and difficult way , Measuring through ...
... hear them o'er and o'er to this their close ! OCEANUS . PROMETHEUS . OCEANUS . Borne on the pinions strong of my fleet bird , Who knows instinctively my will , and needs No rein to guide , a long and difficult way , Measuring through ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Agamemnon agonies ANTISTROPHE art thou bear behold bound Callimachus chains CHORUS counsels dare deep divine doomed dost thou dread earth Epaphus EPODE Eschylus eyes fall The tyrant father fear fierce fire Gods guile hapless story hast thou hear heart Heaven's fire HESIOD hope horror ills immortal hate Inachus Jove Jove's labour land loadstar look MERCURY MILTON mind misery mortals mourn for thee never o'er OCEANUS Oimé Ovid pangs perhaps to insult pity prayer PROMETHEUS PROMETHEUS BOUND quit my sight race reign river rock round Saturn shake shame son of Saturn soothe speak STRENGTH suffer sweet Tartarus taught tell Text of Blomfield Themis thine things thou art thou hast Thou victim thought throne thunder thy fate thyself Titans Typhon victim of immortal VULCAN wanderings waves winds winged wisdom woes words wrath yoke γὰρ δὲ Καὶ οὐ οὐδὲ πρὸς Τίς Τὸ ὡς
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Página 57 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Página 63 - With moulded limbs more lovely than its own, The human form, till marble grew divine, And mothers, gazing, drank the love men see Reflected in their race, behold, and perish. He told the hidden power of herbs and springs, And Disease drank and slept.
Página 63 - He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe...
Página 68 - Gan thunder, and both ends of heaven ; the clouds, From many a horrid rift, abortive pour'd Fierce rain with lightning mix'd, water with fire In ruin reconciled : nor slept the winds Within their stony caves, but rush'd abroad From the four hinges of the world, and fell On the vex'd wilderness, whose tallest pines, Though rooted deep as high, and sturdiest oaks, Bow'd their stiff necks, loaden with stormy blasts, Or torn up sheer.
Página vii - ... consists in nothing but the attempt to give perfection to the human race. It is thus an image of human nature itself; endowed with a miserable foresight and bound down to a narrow existence, without an ally and with nothing' to oppose to the combined and inexorable powers of nature, but an unshaken will, and the consciousness of elevated claims.
Página 62 - Much less that durst upon his own head draw The deadly forfeiture, and ransom set.
Página vii - Prometheus is the representation of constancy under sufiering, and that the never-ending suffering of a god. Exiled to a naked rock on the shore of the encircling ocean, this drama still embraces the world, the Olympus of the gods, and the earth of mortals, all scarcely yet reposing in a secure state above the dread abyss of the dark Titanian powers.
Página 68 - Gan thunder, and both ends of heaven; the clouds From many a horrid rift abortive poured Fierce rain with lightning mixed, water with fire...
Página vii - The idea of a self-devoting divinity has been mysteriously inculcated in many religions, as a confused foreboding of the true ; here however it appears in a most alarming contrast with the consolations of revelation. For Prometheus does not suffer on an understanding with the power by whom the world is governed...
Página 64 - The warm winds, and the azure aether shone, And the blue sea and shadowy hills were seen. Such, the alleviations of his state, Prometheus gave to man, for which he hangs Withering in destined pain...