The ruins of Athens, a dramatic masque, adapted [from the orig. by A.F.F. von Kotzebue]. |
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1st Witch Acropolis adorned airy Altar Apollo appear assailed Athenian Bard beams beating beauty bees behold beloved bowers Characters Charm cherish CHORUS Comic COMPOSED BY LOUIS crumbling Dance daring Deck degraded Dervishes Dost DRAMATIC MASQUE earth Enter Exeunt fade figs forms Freedom frown garlands globe goddess grave Greek Slave Hail Hast hath hear heaven HECTOR heir of Fame HELEN hero isle Janizaries Jove Kaaba land laurels LOUIS VAN BEETHOVEN Mahomet maiden marble Mecca Melpomene MERCURY mighty MINERVA Muses Neptune Olympian once Oppressors Parthenon poet's precede a car PRIEST procession Prophet PROSPERO reared reign relics remembrance revere rice Rome RUINS OF ATHENS sacred fane Sappho Sarcophagus SCENE Shakspeare Shakspeare's sing smiles Socrates solemn song sorrow Statue stern stone strain temple Thalia Theatre thee Theseus thou Thunder thy name toil tower Tragic Turkish wafted Waving his Caduceus wherein Winds wisdom Women worship Wretched wrought
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Page 14 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back...
Page 14 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do,) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Page 14 - twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt: the strong-based promontory Have I made shake: and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar: graves, at my command, Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let them forth By my so potent art.
Page 15 - That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught That man may question? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Page 11 - Shakspeare, that, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.
Page 15 - I foretold, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air : And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve ; And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.