The Greek Tragic Theatre: Containing Æschylus by Dr. Potter, Sophocles by Dr. Francklin, and Euripides by Mich. Wodhull, Esq, Volume 1John Walker, 1809 |
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Ægisthus Ægyptus Agamemnon altar antient tragedy ANTIGONE ANTISTROPHE Apollo Argive Argos arms Athenians Athens ATOSSA awful behold beneath blood bold breast breathe Brumoy CASSANDRA CHORUS CLYTEMNESTRA DANAUS daring Darius daughter dead death deed deep drama dreadful earth ELECTRA Eschylus ETEOCLES Euripides ev'ry eyes fall'n fate father fear fierce flames friends Furies genius glory gods grace Grecians Greece Greek grief hallow'd hand hast hath hear heart Heav'n hence HERALD honour horrid impious ISMENE Jove judgement Jupiter justice king lord MINERVA mortal murder night numbers o'er OCEANUS ORESTES Pauw Pelasgia PELASGUS Persian poet pow'r pride PROMETHEUS proud race rage realms reverence roll royal rude ruin sacred says scene seat SEMICHORUS shade shalt shrine solemn song Sophocles sorrows soul speak spear strain stranger STROPHE suppliant theatre thee thou thy words toils tomb tow'rs vengeance virgin voice whilst woes wretched Xerxes καὶ
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Page 138 - How often from the steep Of echoing hill, or thicket, have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air (Sole, or responsive to each other's note) / Singing their great Creator ? oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heav'nly touch of instrumental sounds,
Page xxv - The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping hea,rd, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale, Edg'd with poplar pale, With flow'er-inwoven tresses torn The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn,
Page xi - Quare quis tandem me reprehendat, " aut quis mihi jure succenseat, si, quantum " ceteris ad suas res obeundas, quantum ad " festos dies ludorum celebrandos, quantum ad " alias voluptates, et ad ipsam requiem animi et " corporis conceditur temporum: quantum alii " tribuunt tempestivis conviviis; quantum
Page 225 - Milton: Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In am'rous ditties all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rook Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with
Page 25 - Your ladyship is nearer ' heaven than when I saw you last by the altitude of a chioppine.
Page 180 - power attends, And from Olympus' lofty tops descends. Bent was his bow the Grecian hearts to wound; Fierce as he mov'd, his silver shafts resound. Breathing revenge, a sudden night he spread, And gloomy darkness
Page xxi - wander travellers in woods by night, By the moon's doubtful and malignant light ; When Jove in dusky clouds involves the skies, And the faint crescent shoots by fits before their eyes.
Page 264 - dragon birth. CHORUS. This new-born dragon, like an infant child, Laid in the cradle seem'd in want of food ; And in her dream she held it to her breast. ORESTES. Without a wound 'scaped she the hideous monster ? CHORUS. The milk he drew was mix'd with clotted blood. ORESTES.
Page 367 - They mean to separate, and in secret flight " Seek safety." At these words the royal chief, Little conceiving of the wiles of Greece And gods averse, to all the naval leaders Gave his high charge : " -Soon as yon sun shall cease " To dart his radiant beams, and dark'ning night " Ascends the temple of the sky
Page 368 - The common cause of all demands your valour." Meantime from Persia's hosts the deep'ning shout Answer'd their shout; no time for cold delay; But ship 'gainst ship its brazen beak impell'd. First to the charge a Grecian galley rush'd; 111 the Phoenician bore the rough attack, Its