The Prometheus bound of Aeschylus, tr. in the original metres, by C.B. Cayley

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J. C. Hotten, 1867 - 74 páginas
 

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Página 8 - If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf. If I were what the words are, And love were like the tune, With double sound and single Delight our lips would mingle, With...
Página 6 - Let us for a moment stoop to the arbitration of popular breath, and usurping and uniting in our own persons the incompatible characters of accuser, witness, judge and executioner, let us decide without trial, testimony, or form, that certain motives of those who are " there sitting where we dare not soar,
Página 2 - is the work of a poet. ... Let our readers say whether they often meet with pictures lovelier in themselves or more truly Greek than those in the following invocation to Artemis ; . . . Many strains equal ^to the above in force, beauty and rhythmical flow might be cited from the chorus. Those which set forth the brevity of man's life, and the darkness which enfolds it, though almost irreverent in their impeachment of the gods, are singularly fine in expression. . . . We yet know not to what poet...

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