Agamemnon, La Saisiaz, and Dramatic IdylsHoughton, Mifflin & Company, 1882 - 434 páginas |
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æther AGAMEMNON AIGISTHOS Apollon Athens Atreus aught bard bear boast breast breath CHOROS Clive Croisic Crown 8vo curse dared dark dead dear death deed dream Duhl earth Erinus evil eyes fame fancy fate fear feel fire fool God's gods hand hast hear heart heaven HERALD honor hope Hóseyn Household Edition Ilion Illustrated Ivàn Jean-Baptiste Rousseau KASSANDRA king KLUTAIMNESTRA La Roque laugh life's live look lyre Makistos Malcrais man's mind never night nought nowise o'er once Persia Pheidippides plain play Poems poet Portrait praise prize prove René Roque round seemed sing Skamandros smile sorrow soul stand strange sure sweet tell thee There's thine things Thomas Bailey Aldrich Thomas Carlyle thou art thought tongue Troia truth turn verse verst vols Voltaire W. D. Howells wild word Zeus
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Página 147 - Whereas, life and laws apparent re-instated, — all we know, All we know not, — o'er our heaven again cloud closes, until, lo — Hope the arrowy, just as constant, comes to pierce its gloom, compelled By a power and by a purpose which, if no one else beheld, I behold in life, so —hope ! Sad summing-up of all to say!
Página 293 - Rejoice!" — his word which brought rejoicing indeed. So is Pheidippides happy forever, — the noble strong man Who could race like a God, bear the face of a God, whom a God loved so well; He saw the land saved he had helped to save, and was suffered to tell Such tidings, yet never decline, but, gloriously as he began, So to end gloriously — once to shout, thereafter be mute: "Athens is saved!
Página 243 - I was vowed to liberty, Men were to be as gods and earth as heaven, And I — ah, what a life was mine to prove ! My whole soul rose to meet it.
Página 127 - Eyes like mine to all appearance : "green as grass" do I affirm ? " Red as grass " he contradicts me — which employs the proper term ? Were we two the earth's sole tenants, with no third for referee, How should I distinguish ? Just so, God must judge 'twixt man and me.
Página 322 - Kindled to light the world — aware of sparks that scorch, Let fall the same ? Forsooth, her flesh a fire-flake stings : The mother drops the child! Among what monstrous things Shall she be classed ? Because of motherhood, each male Yields to his partner place, sinks proudly in the scale: His strength owned weakness, wit — folly, and courage — fear, Beside the female proved male's mistress — only here. The fox-dam, hunger-pined, will slay the felon sire Who dares assault her whelp...
Página 105 - GOOD, to forgive; Best, to forget! Living, we fret; Dying, we live. Fretless and free, Soul, clap thy pinion! Earth have dominion, Body, o'er thee!
Página 122 - How much, how little, do I inwardly believe True that controverted doctrine ? Is it fact to which I cleave, Is it fancy I but cherish, when I take upon my lips Phrase the solemn Tuscan fashioned, and declare the soul's eclipse Not the soul's extinction ? take his " I believe and I declare — Certain am I — from this life I pass into a better, there Where that lady lives of whom enamored was my soul " — where this Other lady, my companion dear and true, she also is ? I have questioned and am...
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Página ix - I should require him to be literal at every cost save that of absolute violence to our language. 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...
Página 1 - Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.