The Old Love and the New: A Tale of AthensRichard Bentley, 1870 |
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Amyntor Arcadian armed armour Aspasia assault Assembly Atalanta Athanas Athenian Athens Attic beautiful besiegers Boeotian brave Callias camp captain cause Cleon close command comrades Corinthian Crantor Dæmon death deep Diphilus disguise dread enemy Enoë Ephori Euripides eyes father favour forward galley garrison gaze Greek hand hear heard Hyperbolus Iophon javelin King Archidamus knew Komātas Kottabos Lacedæmonians lady lanta Leon Leon's light-armed lines lips listened Locrian looked lyre Lysicles Lysisca Megara Megarian Melissa Mount Citharon mountain never night officers Pagondas passed Peloponnesian Pericles peril Phæax Philolaus Phormio Platea ready recognised replied road round Scythian seemed side Sinope slave smile soldier soon Spartan speak spirit spoke stood sure tell tent Theban thought Thrasyllus Timarchus town troops truce trust voice walked walls watch wine words wounded Xanthias yonder Θάνατε
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Page 50 - There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear Was with its stored thunder labouring up.
Page 274 - But who, scarce less by every gazer eyed, Walks yonder, swinging with a stalwart stride ? With that vast bulk of chest and limb assign'd So oft to men who subjugate their kind; So sturdy Cromwell push'd...
Page 220 - Lectos, argentum : tollas licet. ^ In manicis et Compedibus saevo te sub custode tenebo. ^[ Ipse Deus, simul atque volam, me solvet.
Page 274 - Prophet's crown ! Ay, mark him well! the schemer's subtle eye, The stage-mime's plastic lip your search defy— He, like Lysander, never deems it sin To eke the lion's with the fox's skin; Vain every mesh this Proteus to enthrall, He breaks no statute, and he creeps through all; First to the mass that valiant truth to tell, " Rebellion's art is never to rebel,— Elude all danger but defy all laws,"— He stands himself the Safe Sublime he draws!
Page 92 - Hoc etiam faciunt ubi discubuere tenentque pocula saepe homines et inumbrant ora coronis, ex animo ut dicant "brevis hie est fructus homullis; iam fuerit neque post umquam revocare licebit.
Page 194 - ... curo mea Delia: tecum dum modo sim, quaeso segnis inersque vocer. te spectem suprema mihi cum venerit hora, te teneam moriens deficiente manu...
Page 26 - La belle fille, il faut vous taire, II faut nous suivre ! il fait bon vent. Ce n'est que changer de couvent : Le harem vaut le monastère. Sa Hautesse aime les primeurs, Nous vous ferons mahométane...
Page 274 - ... and he creeps through all ; — First to the mass that valiant truth to tell, " Rebellion's art is never to rebel, — Elude all danger but defy all laws," — He stands himself the Safe Sublime he draws ! In him behold all contrasts which belong To minds abased, but passions rous'd, by wrong ; The blood all fervour, and the brain all guile, — The patriot's bluntness, and the bondsman's wile. One after one the lords of time advance, — Here Stanley meets, — how Stanley scorns, the glance...
Page 208 - Case did not think it right to have recourse to such means, she would be prepared for death and " leave the rest in the hands of Him who knows what is best for us ". Mrs.
Page 104 - They are not by Simonides, but they are well worthy of him. GRIMGIBBER. All the Greek in Simonides or out of Simonides will not convert me to your creed about burlesques. They are only fit for the Lyceum, and similar scenes of dramatic degradation.