The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals,John Murray, 1832 |
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... NOAH and his Sons . - IRAD . JAPHET . Women . ANAH . - AHOLIBAMAH . Chorus of Spirits of the Earth . - Chorus of Mortals . HEAVEN AND EARTH . ' PART I. SCENE I. (
... NOAH and his Sons . - IRAD . JAPHET . Women . ANAH . - AHOLIBAMAH . Chorus of Spirits of the Earth . - Chorus of Mortals . HEAVEN AND EARTH . ' PART I. SCENE I. (
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... Noah and his sententious sons . The first scene is a woody and mountainous district , near Mount Ararat ; and the time midnight . Mortal creatures , conscious of their own wickedness , have heard awful predictions of the threatened ...
... Noah and his sententious sons . The first scene is a woody and mountainous district , near Mount Ararat ; and the time midnight . Mortal creatures , conscious of their own wickedness , have heard awful predictions of the threatened ...
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... Noah's son , and Irad - the earthly and despised lovers of the two maidens - appear . Their talk is some- what dull ; which , we presume , is natural in such circumstances . — WILSON . ] And lift thy tearful eye unto the stars ? They ...
... Noah's son , and Irad - the earthly and despised lovers of the two maidens - appear . Their talk is some- what dull ; which , we presume , is natural in such circumstances . — WILSON . ] And lift thy tearful eye unto the stars ? They ...
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... son of Adam ! Japhet ! Lo ! ( 1 ) [ The spirits disappear soaring upwards , and Japhet has again re course to a very ... Noah and Shem now join the party , and a conver- sation ensues between them all , neither very spirited nor very ...
... son of Adam ! Japhet ! Lo ! ( 1 ) [ The spirits disappear soaring upwards , and Japhet has again re course to a very ... Noah and Shem now join the party , and a conver- sation ensues between them all , neither very spirited nor very ...
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... son of Noah ! We know thee not . Japh . The hour may come when thou May'st know me better ; and thy sister know Me still the same which I have ever been . Sam . Son of the patriarch , who hath ever been Upright before his God , whate'er ...
... son of Noah ! We know thee not . Japh . The hour may come when thou May'st know me better ; and thy sister know Me still the same which I have ever been . Sam . Son of the patriarch , who hath ever been Upright before his God , whate'er ...
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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 council 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 o'er Offi palace PANIA passion Pietro Loredano pray prince rebels Rome Salemenes Sardanapalus satraps SCENE Semiramis 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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 7 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Seite 67 - 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...
Seite 52 - 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...
Seite 322 - 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...
Seite 63 - 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.
Seite 62 - 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.
Seite 167 - 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 cud.
Seite 67 - ... have begun by chance. As nothing is essential to the fable but unity of action, and as the unities of time and place arise evidently from false assumptions, and, by circumscribing the extent of the drama, lessen its variety...
Seite 67 - Whether Shakespeare knew the unities, and rejected them by design, or deviated from them by happy ignorance, it is, I think, impossible to decide and useless to inquire.
Seite 66 - ... unities;' conceiving that with any very distant departure from them, there may be poetry, but can be no drama. He is aware of the unpopularity of this notion in present English literature; but it is not a system of his own, being merely an opinion, which, not very long ago, was the law of literature throughout the world, and is still so in the more civilised parts of it.