The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Aristophanes' apology. The Agamemnon of ÆschylusSmith, Elder, & Company, 1889 |
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ÆSCHYLUS AGAMEMNON AIGISTHOS Aischulos AMPHITRUON Apollon Aristophanes Athenai aught Bacchos Balaustion bear blame blood born boys brave breath bring CHOROS Comedy Comic crown curse dance dare dead death deeds Dekeleia didst dost earth Erinues Eupolis Euripides Eurustheus Euthukles evils eyes fate father fear fire fools glory gods grace groans Haides hail hand hast thou hate head heart Hellas HERAKLES HERALD honour household Ilion Iophon KASSANDRA king Kleon KLUTAIMNESTRA Kreon labour laughed live LUKOS lyre man's MEGARA mind mortals murder Muse needs nowise o'er once Peace Pheidias Phokis phorminx play Ploutos poet praise prove shame sing sire Sokrates song Sophokles soul speak speech Strattis tell Thamuris Thebes thee there's THESEUS thine things thyself Tragic trireme Troia true truth turn unhappy what's Whence wife word youth Zeus
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Página 262 - Further, — if I obtained a mere strict bald version of thing by thing, or at least word pregnant with thing, 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.
Página 9 - ... swell In peace by our pretension to ignore, Or pricked to threefold fury, should our stamp Bruise and not brain the pest. A middle course ! What hinders that we treat this tragic theme As the Three taught when either woke some woe, — How Klutaimnestra hated, what the pride Of lokaste", why Medr ia clove Nature asunder.
Página 261 - 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 hear: while, with respect to amplifications and embellishments, anything rather than, with the good farmer, experience that most signal of mortifications, " to gape for /Eschylus and get Theognis.
Página 261 - If, because of the immense fame of the following Tragedy, I wished to acquaint myself with it, and could only do so by the help of a translator, I should require him to be literal at every cost save that of absolute violence to our language.
Página 94 - s left no longer one plain positive Enunciation incontestable Of what is good, right, decent here on earth. Nobody now can say ' this plot is mine, Though but a plethron square, — my duty ! ' — 'Yours? Mine, or at least not yours...
Página 257 - May be, anticipations, — hope so swells, — Of some great future we, familiar once With who so taught, should hail and entertain? He lies now in the little valley, laughed And moaned about by those mysterious streams, Boiling and freezing, like the love and hate Which helped or harmed him through his earthly course. They mix in Arethousa by his grave.
Página 224 - I neither fancy gods love lawless beds, Nor, that with chains they bind each other's hands, Have I judged worthy faith, at any time ; Nor shall I be persuaded — one is born His fellows' master ! since God stands in need — If he is really God — of nought at all. These are the poets...
Página 327 - One-voiced, not well-tuned since no " well " it utters : And truly having drunk, to get more courage, Man's blood— the Komos keeps within the household — Hard to be sent outside — of sister Furies : They hymn their hymn — within the house close sitting — The first beginning curse : in turn spit forth at The Brother's bed, to him who spurned it hostile. Have I missed aught, or hit I like a bowman ? False prophet am I, — knock at doors, a babbler ? Henceforward witness, swearing now, I...