 | sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1835 - 252 páginas
...the elements When sickness taints them ? ADRASTUS. Let them blast me now— I stir not; tremble not; these massive walls, Whose date o'erawes tradition,...armed sovereigns spread to godlike port, And, frowning iu the uncertain dawn of time, Strike awe, as powers who ruled an elder world, In mute obedience. I,... | |
 | 1836 - 650 páginas
...fear of trespassing on the Reviewer's licence. The haughty Adrastus, the too confident descendant " of a great race of kings, along whose line the eager mind lives aching," is introduced in lhe secondAct ; and^to him Ion, supported by the strength of heaven and the nation's... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1840 - 366 páginas
...the elements When sickness taints them ? ADRASTUS. Let them blast me now !I stir not ; tremble not ; these massive walls, Whose date o'erawes tradition,...till its shapes Of armed sovereigns spread to godlike And, frowning in the uncertain dawn of time, Strike awe, as powers who ruled an elder world, In mute... | |
 | 1854 - 768 páginas
...future. THREE DAYS IN ARGOLIS. These massive walls, "Whose date o'ernwos tradition, gird the liomo Of a great race of kings, along whose line The eager mind lives aching, through tbu darkness Of ages else unstoried, till Its shapes Of armed sovereigns spread to godlike port. And,... | |
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CRYTHES. My liege, of human might all know thee fearless, But may not heroes shun the elements When sickness taints them ? ADRASTUS. Let them blast me now— I stir not; tremble not; these massive walls, Whose date o'erawes tradition, gird the home Of... 