Illustrations of the tragedies of Ęschylus and Sophocles from the Greek, Latin, and English poets, with an intr. essay, by J.F. BoyesJohn Frederick Boyes 1842 |
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... fire and dust , " are literally imitations of the bab- blings of language in its infancy . Another form in which this love of personification displays itself , is , the various bestowal of the power of agency . To verbs which seem to ...
... fire and dust , " are literally imitations of the bab- blings of language in its infancy . Another form in which this love of personification displays itself , is , the various bestowal of the power of agency . To verbs which seem to ...
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... fire shines ruddy bright , And , gathering to united glare , Streams high into the midnight air . 103 Τὴν θυμοβόρον φρένα λύπην . Scott's Rokeby , canto v . Or dost thou give the winds afar to blow Each vexing thought , and heart ...
... fire shines ruddy bright , And , gathering to united glare , Streams high into the midnight air . 103 Τὴν θυμοβόρον φρένα λύπην . Scott's Rokeby , canto v . Or dost thou give the winds afar to blow Each vexing thought , and heart ...
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... the turret high Wav'd like a blood - flag on the sky , All flaring and uneven ; And soon a score of fires , I ween , From height , and hill , and cliff , were seen , 6 277 297 Each with warlike tidings fraught ; Each from Петита ...
... the turret high Wav'd like a blood - flag on the sky , All flaring and uneven ; And soon a score of fires , I ween , From height , and hill , and cliff , were seen , 6 277 297 Each with warlike tidings fraught ; Each from Петита ...
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... fire he cast a brand A moment , and up rushed the giant fire Eastward far , anon Another fire rose furious up , anon Another , and another , all the hills , Each behind each held up its crest of flame . Along the heavens the bright and ...
... fire he cast a brand A moment , and up rushed the giant fire Eastward far , anon Another fire rose furious up , anon Another , and another , all the hills , Each behind each held up its crest of flame . Along the heavens the bright and ...
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... fire forsake . Dryden's Annus Mirabilis . As long as fire outlives the parent spark . Shelley's Adonais . Εἰ δ ̓ εὐσεβοῦσι τοὺς πολισσούχους θεοὺς Τοὺς τῆς ἁλούσης γῆς , θεῶν θ ̓ ἱδρύματα , Οὐκ ἄν γ ̓ ἑλόντες αὖθις αὖ θάνοιεν ἄν . See ...
... fire forsake . Dryden's Annus Mirabilis . As long as fire outlives the parent spark . Shelley's Adonais . Εἰ δ ̓ εὐσεβοῦσι τοὺς πολισσούχους θεοὺς Τοὺς τῆς ἁλούσης γῆς , θεῶν θ ̓ ἱδρύματα , Οὐκ ἄν γ ̓ ἑλόντες αὖθις αὖ θάνοιεν ἄν . See ...
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Page 16 - How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, How is she become tributary...
Page 37 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 15 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 25 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's magnificently stern array ! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which, when rent, The earth is cover'd thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heap'd and pent, Rider and horse, — friend, foe, — in one red burial blent...
Page 12 - Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shall not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
Page 34 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Page xxvi - He is our cousin, cousin ; but 'tis doubt, When time shall call him home from banishment, Whether our kinsman come to see his friends. Ourself, and Bushy, Bagot here, and Green, Observ'd his courtship to the common people : — • How he did seem to dive into their hearts, With humble and familiar courtesy ; What reverence he did throw away on slaves ; Wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles, And patient under bearing- of his fortune, As 'twere, to banish their affects with him.
Page 3 - Of dragon watch with unenchanted eye, To save her blossoms, and defend her fruit, From the rash hand of bold Incontinence.
Page 12 - Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Page 17 - Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence.