The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor
Menander, as has been said in the last chapter, once more rescued the stage of Greece from barbarism. In the death of Aristophanes was involved the death of "the middle comedy," which rapidly declined in the hands of his insufficient successors. The poets and wits that came af...
Menander, as has been said in the last chapter, once more rescued the stage of Greece from barbarism. In the death of Aristophanes was involved the death of "the middle comedy,"...
2. Chapter 2_Otti._ Dews of the morn, descend! Breathe, summer gales, My flushed cheeks woo ye! Play, sweet wantons, play 'Mid my loose tresses, fan my panting breast, Quench my blood's bur...
9. Chapter 9_Orsi._ [_Alone in black armour._] Yes, this must be the place-- Estella named, St. Juan's shrine, and sure 'tis for the princess Yon altar flames--Oh! hallowed vaults, how ofte...
7. Chapter 7_Caesa._ He spurned him, Marquis, spurned him! With such scorn, Such genuine ardent hate, repaid his soothing-- Oh! by that hate I feel, the blood which fills These veins is rig...
6. Chapter 6_Inis._ On the earth we found her Senseless and cold: we raised and bore her hither, Where she revived only to sigh and sorrow, Wring her fair hands, and shriek her father's name.
4. Chapter 4_Orsi._ Yes thou art lovely World! That blue-robed sky; These giant rocks, their forms grotesque and awful Reflected on the calm stream's lucid mirror; These reverend oaks, thro...
3. Chapter 3_Caesa._ Thanks, worthy friends! No further!--Pleased I hear These shouts, which thank me for Alfonso's safety! But though _my_ arms have quelled the Moors, your love Alone can...
13. Chapter 13_Hen._ They could not fail, So well Caesario spread it--With such art He told his tale, and in such glowing colours Painted Alfonso's worth, and his son's guilt, That all cried...
5. Chapter 5_Amel._ [_Alone_] And are ye all then vanished, sylphs of bliss? All fled in air, and not one trace, one shadow Left of my bright day-visions? Is not rather All this some fearfu...
11. Chapter 11_Caesa._ Ay, shout, shout, And, kneeling greet your blood anointed king, This steel his sceptre. Tremble, dwarfs in guilt, And own your master. Thou art proof, Henriquez, 'Gains...
12. Chapter 12_Ricar._ At least five thousand strong, But stronger far in loyalty than numbers. Scarce heard my tale, clamours of rage and pity Burst from the croud, and every peasant swore,...
15. Chapter 15_Caesa._ Shall I ne'er find him? Shall my mother's spirit Still ask revenge in vain? This flame, which burns My blood up, shall it ne'er be quenched with his? 'Tis he! 'tis he!-...
8. Chapter 8"One, not unknown, requests an immediate audience on matters most important. Princess, delay not as you value your father's life." Not signed! My father's life! Estella say, Did...
14. Chapter 14_Orsi._ And if I should, I care not: The king, the king!--Oh! waste no thought on me: The best of subjects can but lose one life, But thousands perish when a good king bleeds. N...
10. Chapter 10_Amel._ Those gleams of light: I must be near the place. --Voices!--I'll on--Oh! heaven! I can no further. --I faint!--I die! [_Catching at a fragment of the cave, against which...