A Record of the Pyramids: A Drama in Ten ScenesSaunders and Otley, 1842 - 156 Seiten |
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... crown from off his head ; then flew away , And bore it to the eastern hill - even here . PROMETHEUS . Oh , never let us mock the might of dreams ! The gods talk not with us as man with man ; But when the grosser senses are asleep , The ...
... crown from off his head ; then flew away , And bore it to the eastern hill - even here . PROMETHEUS . Oh , never let us mock the might of dreams ! The gods talk not with us as man with man ; But when the grosser senses are asleep , The ...
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... crown for her towered brow . She is incorporate with Nature . SEGED . Yet Even in my time the Nile hath made some head : Despite the embankments , and the jealous care That watcheth him , or the rich offerings made , He , ever and anon ...
... crown for her towered brow . She is incorporate with Nature . SEGED . Yet Even in my time the Nile hath made some head : Despite the embankments , and the jealous care That watcheth him , or the rich offerings made , He , ever and anon ...
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... crown to an usurper ; Ye made him tread on your officious necks , When , had ye met him with a freeman's eye , He would have shrunk back cowering . It is ye Who first debase yourselves , and so teach men How to debase ye ! Comes not ...
... crown to an usurper ; Ye made him tread on your officious necks , When , had ye met him with a freeman's eye , He would have shrunk back cowering . It is ye Who first debase yourselves , and so teach men How to debase ye ! Comes not ...
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... crown , — Infamy never ! THE MULTITUDES . Down with the tyrant ! ( The guards of Amasis , with shouts , throw them- selves round him . Ere the onset , the doors of the inner apartments are thrown open : from them Lilis hastily enters ...
... crown , — Infamy never ! THE MULTITUDES . Down with the tyrant ! ( The guards of Amasis , with shouts , throw them- selves round him . Ere the onset , the doors of the inner apartments are thrown open : from them Lilis hastily enters ...
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... crown ? -nay , give it , so they spare thy life . Lov'st thou not Lilis more than power ? and what Shall I be if I lose thee ? On my knees I charge thee give it them , so they depart . PROMETHEUS . Woman ! thy words have not preserved ...
... crown ? -nay , give it , so they spare thy life . Lov'st thou not Lilis more than power ? and what Shall I be if I lose thee ? On my knees I charge thee give it them , so they depart . PROMETHEUS . Woman ! thy words have not preserved ...
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A Record of the Pyramids: A Drama, in Ten Scenes (Classic Reprint) John Edmund Reade Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
altar Amasis BABYLONIAN bear beautiful Behold beneath blessed bosom breath brow Cambyses CATILINE chains CHIEF HIEROPHANT CHIEF PREFECT crown crushed dared death deeds descend divinity Dost thou doth Drama dream dwell earth Egypt EGYPTIAN embruted EPIMETHEUS eternal eyes falchion fear feel fellow-men felt fire flame forgot freedom gather glory gods guard hands hath hear heard heart heaven Herodotus honour hope human immortal infinite inspiration John Gorham Palfrey justice king labour lake Liberty light LILIS living mankind MEMPHIAN Memphis mighty hearts mind Moris MULTITUDE Nature Nature's never Nile NUBIAN o'er Osiris passions PHOENICIAN Plato Plotinus Poem poet priests PROMETHEUS pure Pyramids records rise round ruins says SCENE SEGED sense shew shrine silent slavery slaves sleep soul spirit Spiritus intus alit stand strength sublime temple Thebes thee thine thou art thou dost thou hast thought throne truth tyranny tyrants voice Voices of prophecy wind worship
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 49 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do; Not light them for themselves: for, if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike
Seite 103 - perils did abound As thick as thought could make them, and appear In forms more horrid, yet my duty, As doth a rock against the chiding flood. Should the approach of this wild river break, And stand
Seite 67 - full meridian of my glory I haste DOW to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening. And no man see me more.
Seite 91 - It were all one That I should love a bright particular star. And think to wed it, he is so above me: In
Seite 15 - It is the mind that makes the body rich ; And, as the sun breaks through the darkest cloud, So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
Seite xxv - GOD hath made all things beautiful in their seasons ; also, He hath placed the world in man's heart: yet cannot man find out the work which GOD worketh from the beginning to the end.
Seite 37 - Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods ? Draw near them, then, in being merciful; Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge
Seite 103 - of beatun brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron. Can be retentive to the strength of spirit!"
Seite 121 - using, as vehicles, every species of terrestrial, winged, and aquatic animals, it finally enters, a second time, into the human body. They affirm that it undergoes all these changes in the space of three thousand years.
Seite 126 - west," behind; "south," the right; and " the north," obscure, or concealed. The three first of these terms denote the position of an adorer of the sun; the last describes the darkness with which the first inhabitants of the earth believed the northern part of the globe to be enveloped.