The universal anthology, a collection of the best literature, with biographical and explanatory notes, ed. by R. Garnett, L. Vallée, A. Brandl. Imperial ed, Volume 4Richard Garnett 1899 |
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Pagina 50
... XANTHIAS go to Hades to bring back EURIP- IDES , whose death has taken away Athens ' last great tragic artist . BACCHUS , having called on HERCULES for directions , is eager to emulate him . Scene : the gate of PLUTO's palace ...
... XANTHIAS go to Hades to bring back EURIP- IDES , whose death has taken away Athens ' last great tragic artist . BACCHUS , having called on HERCULES for directions , is eager to emulate him . Scene : the gate of PLUTO's palace ...
Pagina 51
Richard Garnett. Xanthias- Holloh , you ! What's the matter there Bacchus Oh dear , I've had an accident . Xanthias- Poh ! poh ! jump up ! Come ! you ridiculous simpleton ! don't lie there , The people will see you . Bacchus- Xanthias ...
Richard Garnett. Xanthias- Holloh , you ! What's the matter there Bacchus Oh dear , I've had an accident . Xanthias- Poh ! poh ! jump up ! Come ! you ridiculous simpleton ! don't lie there , The people will see you . Bacchus- Xanthias ...
Pagina 52
... Xanthias [ as before ] — I thank you . You'll excuse me . Servant Maid - No , no , we can't excuse you , indeed we can't ; There are dancing and singing girls besides . Xanthias [ with dissembled emotion ] - Servant Maid What ! dancers ...
... Xanthias [ as before ] — I thank you . You'll excuse me . Servant Maid - No , no , we can't excuse you , indeed we can't ; There are dancing and singing girls besides . Xanthias [ with dissembled emotion ] - Servant Maid What ! dancers ...
Pagina 53
... Xanthias- Just like him ! That's the way wherever he goes . 1 Woman And snatched his sword out , and behaved like mad . Xanthias- Poor souls ! you suffered sadly ! 1 Woman- Yes , indeed ; And then we both ran off with the fright and ...
... Xanthias- Just like him ! That's the way wherever he goes . 1 Woman And snatched his sword out , and behaved like mad . Xanthias- Poor souls ! you suffered sadly ! 1 Woman- Yes , indeed ; And then we both ran off with the fright and ...
Pagina 54
... Xanthias dearly , that I do ; I wish I might be hanged else . Xanthias Yes , I know- I know your meaning - No ; no more of that , I won't act Hercules Bacchus My little Xanthias . Xanthias Now pray don't say so , How should I be ...
... Xanthias dearly , that I do ; I wish I might be hanged else . Xanthias Yes , I know- I know your meaning - No ; no more of that , I won't act Hercules Bacchus My little Xanthias . Xanthias Now pray don't say so , How should I be ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 213 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Pagina xxx - Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
Pagina 216 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise! See the snakes that they rear How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Pagina xxxi - STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made.
Pagina 214 - With flying fingers touched the lyre: The trembling notes ascend the sky And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove Who left his blissful seats above, Such is the power of mighty love ! A dragon's fiery form belied the god; Sublime on radiant spires he rode When he to fair Olympia...
Pagina 404 - Where fairer Tempes bloom, there sleep Young Cyclads on a sunnier deep. A loftier Argo cleaves the main, Fraught with a later prize ; Another Orpheus sings again. And loves, and weeps, and dies. A new Ulysses leaves once more Calypso for his native shore.
Pagina 404 - The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn: Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
Pagina 100 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Pagina xv - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
Pagina xiv - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.