The tragedies of Aeschylus, tr. into Engl. prose1827 |
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Ægisthus Æschylus Agamemnon Amphiaraus ancient Apollo Argives army ATOSSA Atreus bands bear behold beneath the earth Blomfield blood boast calamities CHORUS CHORUS.-Alas CHORUS.-But CHORUS.-I Cissia CLYTEM Clytemnestra command counsel cùm Darius dark dead death deed dwell ELECTRA enemy enim escape Eschylus ETEOCLES evil eyes fate father favour fear fortune friends Furies gates Geryon Gods Greek groans hæc hand hast hateful hath hear heart heaven HERALD Herodotus hîc honour Jove Jupiter justice king lament land leader libations meaning MESSENGER mighty mind misfortunes mortals mother mournful murder night nihil Oceanus oracles Orestes palace perished Persians Polynices pray prayers Priam PROM Prometheus quæ quod race robes Schütz Scythia ships slain slaughter sorrow soul speak spear Stanley stranger sufferings Susa SYMMONS tears tell thee thou Thyestes tidings Tmolus toils tomb translated Troy Tydeus utter vengeance virgin warriors wealth Wellauer words wretched Xerxes yoke
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Page 6 - In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even ! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see."—Deut. xxviii.
Page 165 - Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand ? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous sea incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Page 34 - As when a gryphon through the wilderness Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold: so eagerly the fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way.
Page 34 - purloin'd The guarded gold: so eagerly the fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way.
Page 109 - Schneider was the first who pointed out this meaning, which is sufficiently plain of itself. Milton, Par, Lost. IV.: ' As flame they part, Half wheeling to the shield, half to the spear.
Page 90 - facilis descensus Averni: Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis; Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est.
Page 176 - his obscure funeral No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones, No noble rite, nor formal ostentation.'
Page 111 - Now as she stood, and her descending veil, Let down in clouds of saffron, touch'd the ground, The priests, and all the sacrificers round, All felt the melting beams that came With softest pity wing'd, shot from her lovely eyes. Like some imagined pictured maid she stood, So beauteous look'd she, seeming as she would Speak, yet still mute: though
Page 130 - in hue, And pained mortal eyes with her transcendent view: E'en so to Paris' bed the lovely Helen came. But dark Erinnys, in the nuptial hour, Rose in the midst of all that bridal pomp, Seated midst the feasting throng, Amidst the revelry and song; Erinnys, led by Xenius Jove, Into the halls of Priam's sons,
Page 133 - stopped him here with the querulous recital: the joy for his return, had she felt that joy, would have broke out first: this is deferred to the latter part of her address; there, indeed, she has amassed every image expressive of welcome; but her solicitude to assemble these leads her beyond nature, which expresses her