The Birds: Intended to Convey Some Notion of Its Effect as an Acted Play, and to Illustrate Certain Points of Dramatic Humour and Character Discoverable in the OriginalPrinted at the Government Press, 1839 - 103 من الصفحات |
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Æther amongst amusing ANTISTROPHE appear Aristophanes Athenian Athens attend beak Birds brought character Choregus Chorus Cinesias Cleonymus clouds comic command Cormorants creature Crows decrees Deities dithyrambic Eagles earth Envoys Epirrema Epithalamium Exit father feast gentle Swallow give Gods Hawk Heaven Hercules Holloh Hoopoe humour Hymen imitation instance Iris Jackdaw Jove Jove's Jupiter kind King kite Lepreum light Look lovely mankind matter mean Merry Andrew messenger Meton mighty Muse Nephelococcugia Neptune never pair of wings Parabasis Peis Peis.-A Peis.-No Peis.-Then Peis.-Well Peis.-Why Peisthe Peisthetairus Peisthetairus and Euelpides person Phrynichus Poet Raven ridicule sacrifice scene scholiast seems SEMICHORUS serve shew sing smite song Soothsayer sort Sovereign Sparto Speak speech stage summon suppose sure Sycophant tairus tell ye Tereus there's thetairus thing Thrace tone town Triballian What's wish yourselves
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الصفحة 35 - Your struggles of misery, labor, and care. Whence you may learn and clearly discern Such truths as attract your inquisitive turn ; Which is busied of late with a mighty debate, A profound speculation about the creation, And organical life, and chaotical strife, With various notions of heavenly motions, And rivers and oceans, and valleys and mountains, And sources of fountains, and meteors on high, And stars in the sky. . . . We propose by and by (If you'll listen and hear) to make it all clear.
الصفحة 37 - We'll not keep away, scornful and proud, a-top of a cloud, (In Jupiter's way) ; but attend every day, To prosper and bless, all you possess, And all your affairs, for yourselves and your heirs. And as long as you live, we shall give You wealth and health, and pleasure and treasure, In ample measure ; And never bilk you of pigeon's milk, Or potable gold ; you shall live to grow old, In laughter and mirth, on the face of the earth, Laughing, quaffing, carousing, bousing, Your only distress, shall be...
الصفحة 36 - Our antiquity proved, it remains to be shown That Love is our author, and master alone; Like him we can ramble, and gambol and fly O'er ocean and earth...
الصفحة 11 - Awake ! awake ! Sleep no more, my gentle mate ! With your tiny tawny bill, Wake the tuneful echo shrill, On vale or hill ; Or in her airy, rocky seat, Let her listen and repeat The tender ditty that you tell, The sad lament, The dire event, To luckless Itys that befell.
الصفحة 61 - The woodpeckers, of course: and there they were, Laboring upon the gates, driving and banging, With their hard hatchet beaks, and such a din, Such a clatter as they made, hammering and hacking, In a perpetual peal, pelting away Like shipwrights, hard at work in the arsenal, And now their work is finished, gates and all...
الصفحة 13 - You that in an humbler station, With an active occupation, Haunt the lowly watery mead, Warring against the native breed, The gnats and flies, your enemies ; In the level marshy plain Of Marathon pursued and slain. You that in a squadron driving...
الصفحة 35 - ... mighty debate, A profound speculation about the creation, And organical life, and chaotical strife, With various notions of heavenly motions, And rivers and oceans, and valleys and mountains, And sources of fountains, and meteors on high, And stars in the sky ---- We propose by and by (If you'll listen and hear), to make it all clear. And Prodicus henceforth shall pass for a dunce, When his doubts are explain'd and expounded at once.
الصفحة 39 - Up to the thunderous /Ether ascending. Whilst all that breathe on earth beneath, The beasts of the wood, the plain and the flood, In panic amazement are crouching and bending, With the awful qualm of a sudden calm Ocean and air in silence blending. The ridge of Olympus is sounding on high, Appalling with wonder the lords of the sky, And the Muses and Graces, Enthroned in their places, Join in the solemn symphony.
الصفحة 36 - Are all unshipped, and housed in store. The shepherd is warned, by the Kite reappearing, To muster his flock, and be ready for shearing, You quit your old cloak at the Swallow's behest, In assurance of summer, and purchase a vest.
الصفحة 76 - ... impudent young scoundrel; sometimes twitching him in with a slight jerk of his hook, and again allowing him to run out to the full length of his line. If any one passage were to be selected from the remains of Aristophanes, as particularly illustrative of the manner in which he delights to exhibit character, perhaps it would be this; it is not a serious struggle for...