The Agamemnon of AeschylusSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1877 - 148 páginas |
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ÆSCHYLUS AGAMEMNON AIGISTHOS altar Apollon Argeian Atreidai's Atreus aught avengers bear behoves Bewailing bloody breathing bringing burthen CHOROS city of Priamos comes concerned thee curse Daimon dead death deed didst dirge dost dying earth ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Erinus evils eyes fate father favour fear fire forestay fortune friends garments gods grace Greek groans Hades Halloo hand Happy-fortuned hearing heart HERALD hither honor hope House thou household husband Ilion insatiate Itus justice KASSANDRA king KLUTAIMNESTRA Komos labour lot Of fortune Loxias man's mind mortals nought nowise nuptials o'er oracles oracular outstretch papai perish pity plain Pleisthenes pray prophet ROBERT BROWNING roof seems shalt shame ship shouted singing sire's Skamandros slaughter slavish slayer sorrow soul speak speech stroke struck suffer tell thine things thou art thou may'st Thuestes thyself tongue Troia truly turn two-edged unhappy wail Whence hast thou wilt woman word Zeus
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Página v - The use of certain allowable constructions which, happening to be out of daily favour, are all the more appropriate to archaic workmanship, is no violence : but I would be tolerant for once, — in the case of so immensely famous an original, — of even a clumsy attempt to furnish me with the very turn of each phrase in as Greek a fashion as English will bear : while, with respect to amplifications and embellishments, — anything rather than, with the good farmer, experience that most signal of...
Página xv - Appointing many a tug that tries the limb, While the knee plays the prop in dust, while, shred To morsels, lies the spear-shaft ; in those grim Marriage-prolusions when their Fury wed Danaoi and Troes, both alike. All's said : Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed,
Página viii - ... their expression is so excellent because it is so admirably kept in its right degree of prominence; because it is so simple and so well subordinated ; because it draws its force directly from the pregnancy of the matter which it conveys.
Página vi - I should hardly look for an impossible transmission of the reputed magniloquence and sonority of the Greek; and this with the less regret, inasmuch as there is abundant musicality elsewhere, but nowhere else than in his poem the ideas of the poet'. He quotes Matthew Arnold on the Greeks: 'their expression is so excellent, because it is so simple and so well subordinated, because it draws its force directly from the pregnancy of the matter which it conveys . . . not a word wasted, not a sentiment...
Página viii - With them, the action predominated over the expression of it ; with us, the expression predominates over the action. Not that they failed in expression, or were inattentive to it ; on the contrary, they are the highest models of expression, the unapproached masters of the grand style : but their expression is so excellent because it is so admirably kept in its right degree of prominence...
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