 The dullness comes of death.' Or here where Philotas is awaiting death after condemnation, and has drawn from Phylax an oath to revenge him by the assassination of Hephestion : ' Remember An ice-film gathers on my shivering blood. Oh, happy days of youth...  Alexander the great, a dramatic poem - Página 106por Aubrey De Vere (calling himself earl of Oxford.) - 1874Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1896 - 600 páginas
...condemnation, and has drawn from Phylax an oath to revenge him by the assassination of Hephestion : ' Remember An ice-film gathers on my shivering blood....blood, A sieve-like throat incapable of joy ! Tell mo these things are fables. I'd not live A second time ; for life's too dangerous ! We come from nothing... | |
 | 1896 - 926 páginas
...condemnation, and has drawn from Phylax an oath to revenge him by the assassination of Hephestion: — Remember An ice-film gathers on my shivering blood....They'll laugh at me, A shadow mid the shades, as I have laugh 'd At Homer's ghosts bending to victim blood, A sieve-like throat incapable of joy! Tell me these... | |
 | 1874 - 586 páginas
...blood. Oh happy days of youth ! They '11 laugh at me : A shadow 'mid the shades, as I have laughed At Homer's ghosts bending to victim blood A sieve-like...Hunger, couchant at Death's gate, Waits to devour us. When Alexander has conquered India and weds Darius's daughter, Phylax thinks the time has come, and... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1898 - 258 páginas
...shivering blood. O happy days of youth ! They '11 laugh at me, A shadow 'mid the shades, as I have laughed At Homer's ghosts bending to victim blood, A sieve-like...incapable of joy ! Tell me these things are fables. I 'd not live A second time ; for life 's too dangerous ! We come from nothing ; and another nothing,... | |
 | 1896 - 926 páginas
...condemnation, and has 79 drawn from Phylax an oath to revenge him by the assassination of Hephestion:— Remember An ice-film gathers on my shivering blood....nothing, A hoary Hunger, couchant at Death's gate, Wait to devour us. A critic's duty towards this play would be unfaithfully performed, if he failed... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1896 - 598 páginas
...condemnation, and has drawn from Phylax an oath to revenge him by the assassination of Hephestion : ' Remember An ice-film gathers on my shivering blood....from nothing ; and another nothing, A hoary Hunger, conchant at Death's gate, Waits to devour us.' A critic's duty towards this play would be unfaithfully... | |
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