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... follow to their latest lair ; Where even the brutes , in their despair , Shall cease to prey on man and on each other , And the striped tiger shall lie down to die Beside the lamb , as though he were his brother ; Till all things shall ...
... follow to their latest lair ; Where even the brutes , in their despair , Shall cease to prey on man and on each other , And the striped tiger shall lie down to die Beside the lamb , as though he were his brother ; Till all things shall ...
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... SARDANAPALUS . Women composing the Harem of SARDANAPALUS , Guards , Attendants , Chaidean Priests , Medes , & c . & c . Scene -a Hall in the Royal Palace of Nineveh . In this tragedy it has been my intention to follow 63.
... SARDANAPALUS . Women composing the Harem of SARDANAPALUS , Guards , Attendants , Chaidean Priests , Medes , & c . & c . Scene -a Hall in the Royal Palace of Nineveh . In this tragedy it has been my intention to follow 63.
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... follow the account of Diodorus Siculus ; ( 1 ) reducing it , however , to such dra- matic regularity as I best could , and trying to approach the unities . I therefore suppose the rebellion to explode and succeed in one day by a sudden ...
... follow the account of Diodorus Siculus ; ( 1 ) reducing it , however , to such dra- matic regularity as I best could , and trying to approach the unities . I therefore suppose the rebellion to explode and succeed in one day by a sudden ...
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... follow of course from the policy of his suc- cessors and their partisans . The inconsistency of traditions concerning Sardanapalus is striking in Diodorus's account of him . " - MITFORD'S Greece , vol . x . p . 311 . Ungroaning to the ...
... follow of course from the policy of his suc- cessors and their partisans . The inconsistency of traditions concerning Sardanapalus is striking in Diodorus's account of him . " - MITFORD'S Greece , vol . x . p . 311 . Ungroaning to the ...
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... spare him Were they once masters - but that's doubtful . Satraps ! Your swords and persons are at liberty To use them as ye will - but from this hour I have no call for either . Salemenes Follow me SCENE I. 111 A TRAGEDY .
... spare him Were they once masters - but that's doubtful . Satraps ! Your swords and persons are at liberty To use them as ye will - but from this hour I have no call for either . Salemenes Follow me SCENE I. 111 A TRAGEDY .
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Aholibamah Anah Arbaces ARNOLD Assyria aught Bactria BARBARIGO bear beauty behold Beleses better blood Bourb Bourbon breath brother Cæs Cæsar Chief dare death Doge dost thou ducal dungeon earth Enter eternal Euphrates Exeunt Exit eyes father fear feel foes Foscari Francesco Foscari Giacopo glory Guard hath hear heart heaven HEBER hence hour Irad Japh Japhet king leave less live look Lord Byron Loredano Marina monarch mortal mountains Myrrha ne'er never Nineveh Noah noble o'er Offi palace PANIA passion Pietro Loredano pray prince rebels Rome Salemenes Sardanapalus satraps SCENE Semiramis SFERO signor sire slave Soldiers son of Noah soul speak spirit stars Stran sword tears thee thine things thou art thou hast thought twas unto Venice walls weep wilt word wouldst
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Página 318 - His legs bestrid the ocean; his rear'd arm Crested the world; his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder: For his bounty, There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas That grew the more by reaping. His delights Were dolphin-like; they show'd his back above The element they lived in. In his livery Walk'd crowns and crownets; realms and islands were As plates dropp'd from his pocket.
Página 61 - He that without diminution of any other excellence shall preserve all the unities unbroken, deserves the like applause with the architect who shall display all the orders of architecture in a citadel without any deduction from its strength. But the principal beauty of a citadel is to exclude the enemy, and the greatest graces of a play are to copy nature and instruct life.
Página 61 - ... time and place arise evidently from false assumptions, and, by circumscribing the extent of the drama, lessen its variety, I cannot think it much to be lamented that they were not known by him, or not observed : nor, if such another poet could arise, should I very vehemently reproach him, that his first act passed at Venice, and his next in Cyprus. Such violations of rules merely positive become the comprehensive genius of...
Página 46 - Let it suffice thee that thou know'st Us happy, and without love no happiness. Whatever pure thou in the body enjoy'st (And pure thou wert created) we enjoy In eminence, and obstacle find none Of membrane, joint, or limb, exclusive bars; Easier than air with air, if spirits embrace, Total they mix, union of pure with pure Desiring...
Página 57 - TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS GOETHE A STRANGER PRESUMES TO OFFER THE HOMAGE OF A LITERARY VASSAL TO HIS LIEGE LORD, THE FIRST OF EXISTING WRITERS, WHO HAS CREATED THE LITERATURE OF HIS OWN COUNTRY, AND ILLUSTRATED THAT OF EUROPE.
Página 72 - Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains ? The despotism of vice — The weakness and the wickedness of luxury — The negligence — the apathy — the evils Of sensual sloth — produce ten thousand^ tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.
Página 61 - Yet when I speak thus slightly of dramatic rules, I cannot but recollect how much wit and learning may be produced against me; before such authorities I am afraid to stand, not that I think the present question one of those that are to be decided by mere authority, but because it is to be suspected that these precepts have not been so easily received but for better reasons than I have yet been able to find.
Página 161 - Zarina ! I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse — borne away with every breath ! Misplaced upon the throne — misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be — let it end.
Página 61 - ... and that he at last deliberately persisted in a practice, which he might have begun by chance. As nothing is essential to the fable, but Unity of Action, and...
Página 56 - Shakespeare ; and so much the better in one sense, for I look upon him to be the worst of models, though the most extraordinary of writers. It has been my object to be as simple and severe as Alfieri, and I have broken down the poetry as nearly as I could to common language.